The Cape Breton-Victoria Regional Centre for Education says school buses are travelling on paved roads only, today.
Meanwhile, driving is expected to get tricky later this morning when freezing rain already hitting the mainland arrives in Cape Breton.
There are school cancellations and delayed openings on the mainland, today.
The price of gas went up by more than forecast, overnight.
Gas costs 2.6 cents a litre more today and now goes for a minimum of $1.02.7 cents a litre in Cape Breton.
The price of diesel remains unchanged at a minimum of $1.21 cents a litre on the Island.
Analysts are predicting a small increase in the price of gas, this week.
A jump of about half a cent a litre is being forecast.
Meanwhile, the price of gas in New Brunswick went up by 1.3 cents last night.
Diesel there fell slightly by four-tenths of cent.
Gas now goes for a minimum of $100.1 in Cape Breton.
Diesel now costs a minimum of $1.21 cents a litre on the Island.
Regional Police say the weekend fire at Chant’s Funeral Home in Sydney has been deemed suspicious.
Police say the case has now been referred to the arson investigator.
Firefighters got the call to the blaze on Alexandra Street shortly after 8:00 on Saturday night.
There were no injuries and there were no bodies or ashes at the funeral home at the time of the fire.
Firefighters say there’s extensive damage to the chapel area.
The funeral home says funerals planned for this week are still going ahead.
It says it’s had calls from churches and other organizations offering their venues.
The new owner of the former Servicom call centre is in line for a payroll rebate from the province.
Iowa-based Marlow Companies bought the operation in December and renamed it the Sydney Call Centre.
The move came after the call centre abruptly closed because of Servicom’s bankruptcy.
Nova Scotia Business Inc. says the Sydney Call Centre has the potential to create up to 750 jobs over three years.
If it does that, it will get a payroll rebate of nearly 2.5 million dollars.