The number of people at risk from homelessness or living without a home is up substantially in eastern Nova Scotia, including Cape Breton. Note: The audio contains both segments on this story.

The Inverness County Centre for the Arts has a new strategic plan that calls for more of everything, including funding. We speak with the Executive Director Beth Ryan.

A Toronto based solar developer is in Cape Breton to meet with people in the East Bay and Glace Bay areas, where they're proposing community solar projects. 

We've invited all the candidates across Cape Breton to take part in our candidates' roundtables so you can hear from them first hand. For Sydney-Membertou, we hear from Derek Mombourquette, Brian MacArthur, and Alison Aho.

As the provincial election campaign continues, Claudia Chender stops by our studio to talk about what the NDP can offer you this November 26th.

We dip into the archives with our former community historian, the late Jim Saint Clair, for a look back at an early Cape Breton shipwreck at the mouth of the Bras d'Or Lakes.

Former US President Donald Trump is set to return to the White House. We speak with a political watcher in Pennsylvania about the latest, and where America goes from here.

Remembrance Day is coming up and there is some online discourse over some memorials people would like to see in place for veterans.

How do we turn voter apathy into voter action?  We tackle some big questions with a political science professor from Acadia. 

Some say music is medicine and those at Hospice Cape Breton would agree. With the help of their music therapist, they've put together a song all about their summer memories in Cape Breton. 

We hear more about some of the new spaces and equipment at the new Breton Education Centre.

A petition circulating online this month has created a stir in the local music community. Artists and industry professionals are weighing in on recent changes to the East Coast Music Awards. Namely, a big staffing shake-up and adjustments to the submission criteria. The CBC's Erin MacInnis is here to talk about some of the concerns outlined in the petition, and how the association is responding.

We hear from people living in shelters at Pine Tree Park and how it's changing their lives. 

This weeks Acadian Column is inspired by the spirit of Halloween.

The new BEC opened its doors in September but it's just one part of the complex that's going to be in place in New Waterford. 

There's a windfall on the way for We'koq'maq First Nation. Residents of the Mi'kmaq community will soon get their share of a multi-million-dollar land settlement. We hear from We'koq'maq Chief John Leonard Bernard later this hour. 

Our neighbours in the Gulf are using beach nourishment projects similar to one that will be tried at Dominion Beach in the Spring. 

All three parties are focusing on affordability in this election. Reporter Taryn Grant will tell us how their messages are landing with some voters. 

Nova Scotia is using a new e-ballot that allows people to cast their vote anywhere in the Province and you can start voting as early as tomorrow. 

Our terrifying technician Olivia is kidding around at a local daycare to get into the Halloween spirit.

New Dawn enterprises has lost a bid to have it's tax assessment based on its ability to pay rather than the assessed value of its property, we ask the President and CEO what that means. 

Navigating the health care system can be stressful and for First Nations people, it can also come with some mistrust of the system itself. A new program from the Mi'kmaq Health Authority is looking to remedy that.

Nova Scotians are headed to the polls on November 26, after Tim Houston called a snap election yesterday. The CBC's Michael Gorman will be here to talk about that, and how things are shaping up in the very early days of the campaign.

We ask Inverness MLA how come he gave up a powerful cabinet post in Nova Scotia to try to become the next Conservative MP for Cape Breton-Canso-Antigonish.

The Asian Lady Beetle seems to be everywhere lately. We hear from one woman who had them as unwanted party guests recently and we talk to an expert about why there are so many around.