Cape Breton's Richmond County is working on creating a vulnerable persons registry to help look after residents affected by increasingly frequent and severe storms.

Warden Amanda Mombourquette said county staff are gathering information and will be making recommendations to council soon on how a registry could work.

She said Hurricane Fiona in 2022 and a heavy snow storm this February drove home the urgent need to come up with a way to help those living rough or others at home who need some assis…