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Dr. Jennifer Russell and Health Minister Dorothy Shephard will hold an update on COVID-19 Tuesday afternoon.

One month after mystery disease was made public, residents say they aren’t being given enough information.

Saint John city council is expected to approve the zoning for a 180-unit apartment building development project near Tin Can Beach with little public objection.

New Brunswick is receiving no extra royalties from forestry companies for trees they are cutting on crown land this year, even though prices for lumber made from those trees are at record highs and other provinces are moving to claim some of that growing windfall for their taxpayers.

Joan Wright has been suspended by the College of Psychologists of New Brunswick for professional misconduct, incompetence and violating the boundaries of the psychologist-client relationship, according to a recent decision by the college.

New Brunswick reported nine new cases of COVID-19 on Monday, six of which are in the embattled Edmundston region, Zone 4.

Federal intergovernmental affairs minister Dominic LeBlanc says Ottawa will not divert any COVID-19 vaccine doses from Atlantic Canada to Ontario without a clear consensus from provincial premiers.

Abdallah Abu Zeid originally pleaded not guilty to aggravated assault, and Monday was to be the first day of a 10-day trial.

Young adults have been drinking more during the pandemic, raising concerns about women who might be pregnant and don’t know the harm they could be doing.

Edmundston’s police chief chafed at scathing comments by federal leaders after one of the force’s officers killed Chantel Moore last June, newly released documents show.

Family and friends are searching for Abdulgadir Nur, 65. He has been missing since Thursday morning and doesn’t speak English or French.

New Brunswick’s active case count remains high in the Edmundston region, after nine new cases were announced in the area on Sunday. Public Health is reporting 10 total new cases.

New Brunswick’s active case count remains high in the Edmundston region, after nine new cases were announced in the area on Sunday. Public Health is reporting 10 total new cases.

Woman enlists social media sleuths to help her find the ‘stepdad’ who was a kind and listening ear when she was a troubled teen.

In the highlands of Gaspésie National Park, just a two-hour drive or so from Cambellton, you can find the only herd of caribou living south of the St. Lawrence River.

Newcomers in Fredericton got a brand new bike thanks to a donation from a local tattoo artist.

A large-scale search is underway for any evidence of the Tyhawk fishing vessel or its missing captain.  The New Brunswick based boat, owned by the Elsipogtog First Nation, sank off the coast of Cape Breton, N.S. earlier this month. 

New Brunswick is reporting 11 new cases of COVID-19 on Saturday. There are 150 active cases in the province.

Most of New Brunswick’s hospitalized patients continue to receive treatment at the Edmundston Regional Hospital. The Vitalité Health Network reported a dozen COVID-19 patients at that facility as of Friday.

New Brunswickers who took a staycation this fall or winter who are hoping to get a rebate from the province have less than two weeks left to submit their receipts.

Lexi Daken’s sisters are painting rocks and leaving them throughout the province in an effort to keep the momentum on mental health reform.

A Vancouver couple is calling Saint Andrews home without ever experiencing the town first-hand.

A petition turned victorious for Mount Allison University students this week, after the offering of an ecology course on environmental knowledge of Indigenous Peoples was threatened.

New Brunswick has hit a COVID-19 vaccine milestone. According to data from the provincial government, 25 per cent of the population eligible to be vaccinated has already received at least one dose.

New Brunswick recorded nine new cases of COVID-19 on Friday, six of them in the Edmundston region, Zone 4.

A 20-year-old Saint John man who stabbed his friend six times and left him on the side of the road to bleed to death was sentenced Friday to eight-and-a-half-years in prison. 

Essential travel accounts for 35 per cent of recent COVID-19 cases, and the workers with the highest number of infections are truck drivers, closely followed by rotational workers.

Fredericton city council has appointed four men to the Preservation Review Board, but they asked staff to reopen applications in hopes a more diverse group of citizens can fill remaining seats.

The Department of National Defence is proposing to build a solar farm on the Gagetown military base, in order to help meet Canada’s green energy goal. 

Downtown Fredericton was quieter this week without Andrew Spencer, known for reciting his own poetry to pedestrians on Queen Street in exchange for a penny. 

Craig Vezina is donating skateboards and equipment to youth in Fredericton who can’t afford the gear.

The Department of Tourism is offering to pay New Brunswickers to vacation at home again this summer as part of the province’s COVID-19 recovery plan.

This week Fredericton City Council voted to fund half of the design costs for the regional facility – as long as other communities and the province agree to fund the remaining costs.