The Cape Breton Victoria Regional Centre for Education says classes are canceled at a number of schools today because of weather conditions.
All schools North of Smokey, Baddeck Academy, Middle River School and Rankin School of the Narrows are affected.
Meanwhile, the Centre for Education says buses will be travelling on paved roads only, today.
The Red Cross says a family of four has been forced from their Glace Bay home after a weekend fire.
The organization says the fire in the company house at 7 Winona Street was reported shortly after 1:00, yesterday morning.
It says there were no injuries and there was no one living in the other side of the building.
Red Cross volunteers have arranged emergency lodging, food and winter clothing plus other basics and comfort toys for the woman and her three children who range in age from two to nine.
There’s no word on the cause of the fire.
Overhead arms for traffic lights are being installed at the intersection of Churchill and Alexandra streets in Sydney.
Municipal communications and information officer Jillian Moore says the poles and arms are being erected but will not be operational for another few weeks.
An official announcement will be issued through the traffic authority prior to the lights being activated. Until then, the intersection will remain a four way stop.
Service Nova Scotia says the licence for Chant’s Funeral Home in Sydney has been temporarily suspended because of a fire there last weekend.
The province says the fire caused extensive damage and the funeral home is unsuitable to operate.
The funeral home is not allowed to offer or provide any merchandise or services to the public during the suspension.
The province says the suspension remains in effect until repairs have been made.
Meanwhile, Regional Police have deemed the fire at the funeral home suspicious.
The latest numbers from Stats Canada show Cape Breton’s unemployment rate stood at 16.7 per cent, last month.
That’s a jump of half a percentage point from December and 2.4 percentage points higher compared to January of last year.
Meanwhile, the national unemployment rate went up .2 percentage points last month to 5.6 per cent.
The federal agency says the increase was fueled by more people looking for work.