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Dozens of tow trucks were parked outside city hall in downtown Sydney, N.S., on Wednesday, blocking one lane of traffic in an effort to also block a proposed bylaw they say would hurt their livelihoods.

A new Cape Breton bylaw seeks to limit overcrowding for shared dwellings.

Cape Breton residents are still dealing with snow-covered sidewalks two weeks after a major storm.

Being under a rainfall warning hasnt been unusual in the Sydney area in recent years, but this time people are bracing themselves for a potential big mess due to the amount of snow thats on the ground.

Each bite out of a snowbank has taken a bite out of the Cape Breton Regional Municipalitys snow removal budget since two major winter storms hit the area.

The Sydney, N.S., area was blasted with another major winter storm overnight Tuesday into Wednesday morning, just days after digging out from an historic 150 centimeters of snow dumped last week.

People in the blind and visually impaired community are calling for the Atlantic Provinces Special Education Authority to bring back its full suite of pre-pandemic services.

Residents of a rural part of the Halifax municipality are concerned after learning the emergency department at their hospital would be closed for all of January.

Students will get their teaching certification 3 months early because of the dire need for substitute teachers.

Classrooms have been unusually empty across Nova Scotia since they reopened last month amid the ongoing wave of COVID-19 — but nowhere more so than Cape Breton.