Dan Roscoe is the CEO of Roswall Development, which owns Renewall Energy, the company behind Mersey River Wind. (Renewall Energy)

Work may start soon on the Mersey River Wind project in Milton. Dan Roscoe is the CEO of Roswall Development, the company that plans to build a 33-wind turbine farm on 80 hectares of Crown land west of the Mersey River, under its Renewall Energy... Read More...

Horse pull at Queens County Fair. File photo: Doreen Holdright

Eleven community groups have been granted more than $62,000 from the Region of Queens community investment fund. Non-profit groups from Queens County can apply to the $175,000 fund each year to help offset operational, capital, event, training or travel... Read More...

Dan McDougall, interim CAO of the Region of Queens, and Mayor Scott Christian on Tuesday as councillors voted on their 2025/26 budget. (Region of Queens YouTube channel)

Region of Queens councillors approved a $31-million budget on Tuesday that held the line on tax rates while boosting support for people on low incomes. The 2025-26 spending plan of $31.1 million is about $1.3 million higher than last year. Councillors also... Read More...

The Region of Queens has hired a new human resources manager. (Rick Conrad)

A former human resources director at Global Empire Corporation is now in charge of human resources at the Region of Queens. Holly McConnell will begin the job of director of people and culture at the municipality on May 26, according to a region news release... Read More...

Inside Global Empire Corporation’s call centre in Liverpool. (File photo by Ed Halverson)

A company that operates a call centre in Liverpool has been ordered to pay almost $200,000 to 69 former employees it laid off last March. In a May 1 order by Nova Scotia’s Labour Standards Division, Global Empire Corporation must pay the laid-off workers a... Read More...

Queens County Transit says the success of a recent fundraiser will help them keep their vans running. (Rick Conrad)

A recent fundraiser for Queens County Transit roared past all the group’s expectations. The rural transit charity based in Liverpool held its first major fundraiser last Saturday. They teamed up with the Yuk Yuk’s standup comedy tour for a show at the Astor... Read More...

Members of the South Queens Middle School Grade 7/8 band perform at the Queens County Music Festival in late April. (Rick Conrad)

It looks like the band program at South Queens Middle School in Liverpool will live to play another day, though it’s unclear in what form. Parents and others vented their frustrations online a couple of weeks ago when they heard the school planned to... Read More...

Dave Schofield, president of the Kiwanis Club of Liverpool, Stacy Thorburn, principal of South Queens Middle School, and Ted Bulley of the Kiwanis Club at an announcement on Wednesday at the school. (Rick Conrad)

Sports teams at South Queens Middle School will be getting a new electronic scoreboard thanks to a donation from the Kiwanis Club of Liverpool. The service organization donated $7,000 toward the $17,000 piece of equipment that will hang in the gymnasium at... Read More...

Willa Thorpe is the new chief administrative officer for the Region of Queens. (Region of Queens Municipality)

UPDATED Mon., May 12 The Region of Queens has hired a new chief administrative officer. Willa Thorpe will take over as the municipality’s top staffer on June 16, after regional councillors unanimously approved her appointment on Tuesday. Thorpe is from... Read More...

Regional councillors are back to budget talks on Tuesday evening. (Rick Conrad)

The Region of Queens is about to announce who its new top staffer will be. Councillors will publicly appoint the region’s new chief administrative officer at a special meeting on Tuesday at 6 p.m. In a staff report, acting municipal clerk Heather Cook says... Read More...

Donna Croft and Gil Johnson of Queens County Transit in Liverpool are gearing up the group’s Yuk Yuk’s fundraiser at the Astor Theatre on Saturday. (Rick Conrad)

Queens County Transit got on the road seven years ago with one used wheelchair-accessible van catering mostly to seniors in Liverpool. “When we started out, we had one old used wheelchair-accessible van that we got from over in Clare. And I think it was in... Read More...

Shelly Panczyk is the chairwoman of the Queens County Food Bank in Liverpool. (Rick Conrad)

The Queens County Food Bank won’t have to worry about its rent for the next four years as Region of Queens councillors voted this week to give the group a rent subsidy. As part of its budget talks, councillors agreed to the food bank’s request for an annual... Read More...

Region of Queens Mayor Scott Christian, right, wraps up the municipality’s second budget meeting on Monday night. Also pictured is interim CAO Dan McDougall. (Region of Queens YouTube channel)

Region of Queens councillors began their 2025/26 budget discussions with some money in the bank from 2024/25, as they look to make life a little easier for people on low or fixed incomes. Mayor Scott Christian said the region has a surplus in the... Read More...

Queens General Hospital. Photo Ed Halverson

The emergency department at Queens General Hospital in Liverpool will be closed at 5:30 a.m. Thursday, May 1, until 8 a.m. Friday, May 2. The ER is usually open 24 hours a day from 8 a.m. Monday to 1:30 p.m. Friday. Nova Scotia Health gave no reason for the... Read More...

An undated aerial photo of the former Bowater Mersey plant in Brooklyn. (Queens County Historical Society Photo Collection, housed at the Queens County Museum)

Northern Pulp has asked for another extension in protection from its creditors as it continues to look for financing to build a new kraft pulp mill in Liverpool. The company, owned by Domtar-controlled Paper Excellence, has been under creditor protection... Read More...

Newly elected South Shore-St. Margarets MP Jessica Fancy-Landry speaks to a voter in Liverpool earlier in the campaign. (Rick Conrad)

UPDATED TUESDAY at 5:20 P.M. Voters in South Shore-St. Margarets went back to the Liberals on Monday night, electing first-time candidate Jessica Fancy-Landry in a decisive victory. Fancy-Landry beat Conservative incumbent Rick Perkins by about 7,000 votes,... Read More...

Katharina Cochrane, vice-president of the South Queens Chamber of Commerce, says voters seem to be ‘dialled in’ during this election. (Rick Conrad)

Nova Scotia’s South Shore is known for its ocean breezes and waterfront vistas, drawing thousands of tourists each year to relax on its many beaches. But in the 2025 federal election campaign, there’s nothing laidback about the race to win the riding of... Read More...

A Queens County man is the latest victim of intimate partner violence in Nova Scotia, RCMP say. (RCMP)

RCMP have charged a man with second-degree murder in a domestic assault in Queens County in late March. On March 28 at 3:30 a.m., Queens District RCMP and paramedics responded to a weapons call at a home in Mill Village.   They found an 84-year-old man with... Read More...

Rick Perkins, Jessica Fancy-Landry, Mark Embrett and Patrick Boyd are four of the candidates running in South Shore-St. Margarets. 

QCCR has interviewed four of the candidates running in the riding of South Shore-St. Margarets in the April 28 federal election. Conservative Rick Perkins, Liberal Jessica Fancy-Landry, the Green Party’s Mark Embrett and Patrick Boyd of the... Read More...

Rick Perkins is the Conservative candidate in South Shore-St. Margarets. (Rick Perkins photo)

Rick Perkins is trying to hold onto the South Shore-St. Margarets seat for the Conservative Party of Canada in the April 28 federal election. He was first elected in 2021, ousting Liberal MP and then Fisheries Minister Bernadette Jordan by about 1,800... Read More...

Jessica Fancy-Landry is the Liberal candidate in the riding of South Shore-St. Margarets. (Jessica Fancy-Landry)

Jessica Fancy-Landry is trying to take back the riding of South Shore-St. Margarets for the Liberals in the April 28 federal election. She’s up against incumbent MP Rick Perkins, who won the seat in the 2021 election over Liberal MP Bernadette Jordan by about... Read More...

Mark Embrett is the candidate for the Green Party in South Shore-St. Margarets. (Rick Conrad)

Mark Embrett is trying to make a breakthrough in the federal riding of South Shore-St. Margarets for the Green Party of Canada in the April 28 federal election. The Queensland resident is an implementation scientist with Nova Scotia Health. In the 2021... Read More...

Patrick Boyd is the candidate for the People’s Party of Canada in South Shore-St. Margarets. (Rick Conrad)

Patrick Boyd is the candidate for the People’s Party of Canada in the April 28 federal election. The consultant and hobby farmer lives in Sable River, Shelburne Co., and is a first-time candidate. Conservative incumbent Rick Perkins, Liberal Jessica... Read More...

Region of Queens Mayor Scott Christian says regional council hopes to approve its 2025/26 budget by early May. (Rick Conrad photo)

Region of Queens councillors will begin their 2025/26 budget deliberations this week, almost a month after the fiscal year has expired. Region of Queens councillors will begin their 2025/26 budget deliberations this week, almost a month after the fiscal year... Read More...

You don’t need your voter information card from Elections Canada to vote in the April 28 federal election. (Elections Canada)

If you haven’t received your voter information card yet for the April 28 federal election, Elections Canada says not to worry. You can still vote without it.  Elections Canada told QCCR there have been delays in getting the cards to some parts of the... Read More...