South Shore drug bust

During a vehicle stop on Monday on highway 3 in Mahone Bay, the Lunenburg County RCMP found coke and crack cocaine; pot and cannabis resin while searching the vehicle.

A 55-year-old woman from Newburne, a 46-year-old woman and a 20-year-old woman; both from New Germany, are facing charges.

NS wait time concerns

Nova Scotia’s auditor general Michael Pickup says the province’s largest health authority has only implemented two of seven recommendations made in 2014 to improve reporting on wait times for knee and hip surgeries.

In Nova Scotia about 90 per cent of patients got their hip or knee replacements within 750 to 800 days, well short of a national goal of 182 days.