An international agreement was struck this week between two highly unlikely partners — a U.S.corporation and a Nova Scotia not-for-profit.

Call it a back-handed compliment or a validation of the work we do — though not from a source of any authority. Facebook’s ongoing blocking of posts containing Canadian news content has taken aim at yours truly, Six Rivers News.

We are back on-the-air at Six Rivers Radio, as of Saturday at 2:00 pm. However, aside from the two day delay in service, there were other issues.

Six Rivers Radio is currently off the air locally though broadcasting from its backup facility in Montreal. While music will stream 24/7, all live and local programming is suspended awaiting a service technician from Bell Aliant.

The world wide web was thrown for a loop early this morning when some of the world’s largest internet players suddenly were not available.

The company that compiles the personal information of every single user it meets is criticizing Apple for hurting small businesses.

Nova Scotia surgeons pioneer breakthrough technology in brain surgery. Dr. David Clarke says a robot assisted doctors in a detailed operation last week in Halifax, a first in Canada.

Six Rivers News has been singled out by newspaper subscribers in Tennessee who object to having money taken from their bank accounts.

For the third time in just over two years, there has been a major privacy breach of personal information from the provincial government and Nova Scotia Tories are up in arms.

COVID-19 is slowly creating a new normal but in terms of technology, change is moving rapidly, especially when it comes to public meetings.

Are the kids getting a little antsy at home? Does the word ‘boredom’ come up a little more than you like?

It has been said that through television you allow people to come into your home that you would never let enter in real life. Now multiply that by a thousand and you have Facebook.

With higher tech come greater challenges, especially for firefighters.

Being a "newshound", I appreciate Twitter as a go to place for quick and current doses of what's happening in our province and beyond. My on-line diet includes the usual Canadian media outlets, but one has been a source of frustration for quite some time and today I am giving up on Global.