Cape Breton Regional Municipality ended the last fiscal year $100,000 in the black and is still waiting for word from Nova Scotia on possible disaster aid for a massive snowstorm.

The fall heavy wind and rain storm that hit much of the CBRM in late September 2022 put ... noted that there is a possibility to recover some winter-storm costs via Disaster Financial Assistance ...

Jennifer Campbell, CBRM's chief financial officer, said that one weekend storm last year cost the municipality about $3.8 million. Luckily, she said, the rest of the winter was not too bad.

CBRM is still waiting for word from the province on whether it will receive disaster relief for last winter's snowstorm, which dropped about 150 centimetres of snow on the region over one weekend.