Information Morning - Cape Breton

Rankin MacSween is the latest candidate to announce that he is running for Mayor of the CBRM.

After the big wildfires in the mainland last year, there's been renewed focus on the old road between Louisbourg and Gabarus. It's long been closed with only one exit from Louisbourg and some community members are renewing the campaign to get it open again.

Our summertime reporter Emily Conohan is not long out of high school, where she says it was routine to see large groups of teens vaping in the washrooms. Now she's learned that a couple of Cape Breton high schools are installing vape detectors.

Elementary schools in Nova Scotia will be rolling out a pay-what-you-can school lunch program starting in October. We get the meat and potatoes of how that will work.

CBRM is seeking regulatory approval to spend just over a million dollars in the next two years buying private land to keep drinking water sources safe.

More than 11-hundred students and staff will be starting the fall term at the new NSCC Sydney Waterfront campus next week.

A first-of-its-kind collaboration between midwives and family doctors will be coming to Inverness.

Pascan Aviation will make a welcomed landing on the Sydney airport schedule board this fall. The Quebec-based carrier is re-introducing a regular Sydney-Halifax route.

New digs for doctors and other health care services in Sydney River. We get the details on a new collaborative care clinic now under construction.

There's a bright new wall mural of a big colourful tree going up at the corner of Townsend and George streets in Sydney this week. We speak with the business-owner and artist behind the work.