VIDEO: Convocation 2018

The Cape Breton Environmental Association is planning their first fundraiser for the Cape Breton Cancer Patient Care Fund on Sept. 22.

with a cleanup of downtown Glace Bay in the morning, there will be a street party on Commercial St. near Talo Cafébar in the afternoon, 1-5 p.m.

Founded in June 2017 by Glace Bay resident Dylan Yates, 27, the Cape Breton Environmental Association has been picking up trash, abandoned tires, household waste and more off of beaches, streams and wooded areas around Cape Breton.

This year's recipient of the Nova Scotia Council of the Federation Literacy Award is a graduate of the Nova Scotia Community College (NSCC), receiving her high school diploma for adults in 2017.

Samia Eldik received the award, today, Sept. 10, during a presentation ceremony at Province House, in Halifax. The award is presented annually to an adult learner who demonstrates outstanding achievements in literacy, and makes a significant contribution to their school, workplace or community.

Canada's first black female mayor was honoured with a town hall dedication and the unveiling of a bronze bust in Annapolis Royal, N.S., Sunday afternoon.

Daurene Lewis was elected mayor of the small Nova Scotia town in 1984. She died in 2013, but would have been 75 this year.

Bill MacDonald, who is the current mayor, said people who lived in the area at the time Lewis was in power always speak highly of her.

NSCC has been recognized as a top performer in the 2018 Sustainable Campus Index, achieving the top spot in the areas of Waste and Buildings, and overall among associate colleges worldwide.

A Mi'kmaw elder in Nova Scotia says a four-day welding camp is helping to connect youth to their Mi'kmaw traditions through modern skilled trades.

Yarnell Arsenault strolls down a trail overlooking a picturesque lake in his old Dartmouth, N.S., neighbourhood to a small green bench he remembers from a foggy night seven years ago.