RCMP say the Trans Canada over Kelly’s Mountain is closed in both directions this morning because of an overturned tractor trailer.
The Mounties say it’s carrying liquid oxygen.
They’re asking people to avoid the area.
Meanwhile, the Cape Breton Victoria Regional Centre for Education says school bus route 310, driven by Rita, serving Baddeck Academy, Dr. TL Sullivan and Memorial High is cancelled for today.
At strike at the Nova Scotia Community College has been avoided after a tentative agreement was reached, yesterday.
More than a thousand faculty and support staff at the Community College were set to go on strike, today.
Details of the agreement have not been released.
However, the Atlantic Academic Union is recommending its members accept the new contract proposal when it goes to a vote later this week.
As predicted, the price of gas went up overnight.
Gas increased by 1.1 cents and the minimum price for a litre of gas in Cape Breton is now $1.66.9.
Meanwhile, diesel went down by 1.1 cents.
The minimum price for a litre of diesel on the Island is now $1.89.
Bargaining teams for the Nova Scotia Community College and the union for its instructors and support staff are meeting with a conciliator today in an effort to prevent a strike.
Today is the first time the two sides have met, since declaring an impasse on February 29th.
Key outstanding issues are wages, workload and working conditions.
The Atlantic Academic Union says more than 75 per cent of it members voted down the latest offer from Community College last week that included a 7 or 8 per cent pay increase over three years.
If today’s talks fail, the union says its more than a thousand members will likely walk off the job by Monday.
Regional Police say three officers saved a man from a house fire this morning in Sydney Mines.
Police say they got a call from Pond Road at around 3:20, from a man asking for help to get out of a house on fire.
Officers found the man stuck, trying to get out an upstairs window with flames preventing them from getting into the house through a door.
The officers used a nearby extension ladder to get on the porch roof directly under the man’s window.
Police say the officers broke the window, pulled the man out, and led him down the ladder to safety.
They say man suffered minor injuries from the broken window and the fire has been deemed not suspicious.