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A $463 million expansion of the Saint John port will include a notoriously complicated intersection that city officials have struggled to address for decades.

A new bookshop has opened up in Moncton, but you’ll have to go to a different place to find it each time.

U.S. President Donald Trump is poised to lift tariffs on some Canadian products — and hit others with new duties — as Republicans in border states lobby for relief from trade actions that have put them in a shaky political position ahead of November's midterms.

A man who was set to be sentenced next week for murdering and dismembering his wife will instead be sentenced in early November.

Following promises for action and plans to respond to a large amount of overdoses recently in St. Stephen, Mayor Steven Backman says he is hopeful.

A Saint John charity that provides up to 100 bags of food to families each month is planning to end operations.

Premier Susan Holt’s government has just rounded the midway point of its mandate and an online tool has been tracking its election promises.

The evidence on either side of the fracking debate remains clear for both opponents and proponents 12 years after the provincial government imposed its moratorium on shale gas development.

The City of Moncton lost its bid to host the 2028 Memorial Cup to Québec City, the home of the Québec Remparts. The tournament is an annual championship between the top teams in Canadian junior hockey.

A preliminary inquiry has been scheduled for next spring for a man accused of a murder in Moncton.

A Progressive Conservative unhappy that Daniel Allain won the party leadership says he is going to start a centre-right party called the New Brunswick Party.

As New Brunswick considers lifting its shale gas moratorium, Mi'kmaw leaders reflect on the protests in Rexton in 2013, and share their concerns and hopes for the future of resource development on their territory.

The university will offer a 16-month post-baccalaureate degree with options to teach either grades K to 5 or 6 to 12.

The provincial, federal and industry spending is meant to address bottlenecks in road, rail and marine corridors around Port Saint John as a trade war with the United States continues.

Police in Fredericton are investigating the death of a man found in a homeless encampment on the north side of the city.

The governing Liberals introduced legislation Wednesday that would create a mental health advocate role, added to the office of the New Brunswick child, youth and seniors advocate.

Vitalité Health Network says it still needs help in an understaffed emergency room in northern N.B., despite the province telling it to return nurses it pulled from primary care back to their roles.

The Kedgwick Public Library is just 200 square metres, but this small space makes a big impact in the northern community, 80 km from Campbellton.

N.B. Power has been criticized by its regulator for not asking enough questions about $158 million in potential savings on a major generator repair at the Point Lepreau Nuclear Generating Station that customers are now responsible to pay.

A small town in Charlotte County has been dealing with more overdose calls than usual in the last several days.

Representatives from N.B. Lung are in Ottawa to talk to MPs about smoke-free generation legislation.

The Holt government laid out its agenda for the coming session of the New Brunswick Legislature on Tuesday, a plan that includes new affordability measures and an overhaul of the law governing landlords and tenants.

A third person has been charged after the homicide of 21-year-old Hayven Francis of Elsipogtog First Nation, according to the New Brunswick RCMP.

Homelessness in Saint John has only grown since an update in July on the city's strategy to reduce it, council heard Monday.

Moncton council has voted to declare the former Codiac Regional RCMP site surplus and require proposals to redevelop the land include a new city market.

Minister says putting youth in group homes only temporarily will help address the risk of human trafficking to children in government care.

A group representing nurse practitioners in New Brunswick says some of its members are being forced to leave primary care practices to fill staff shortages at the Campbellton Regional Hospital, leaving their own patients at risk.

Progress has stalled on adding new patients at two of the Holt government's first batch of collaborative care clinics.

Heading into winter, more people are becoming homeless than are finding housing in Moncton, Saint John and Fredericton, according to the Human Development Council's latest counts.

The Union of Municipalities of New Brunswick and the Local Governance Commission continue to ask the province to bring in mandatory training for municipal officials. They say an optional two-day training in Saint John this year wasn't accessible to all municipalities.

Two hospices in Miramichi are in a tug-of-war over provincial government funding for end-of-life-care in the community.

A 35-year-old Elsipogtog, N.B., woman has been charged with being an accessory after the factin connection to a homicide earlier this week in the community.

A planned new basketball attraction in St. Stephen is getting a boost from a hometown philanthropist.

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As Atlantic salmon populations in the Miramichi watershed dwindle, striped bass are surging — and tensions are riding high.

Advocates at a Fredericton seniors' expo say a lack of rural transit leaves seniors isolated, with volunteer driver services barely scratching the surface of the demand.

Members will gather at the Fredericton Convention Centre to find out who will be the next leader of New Brunswick’s Progressive Conservative Party.

Gallery 78 in Fredericton is celebrating 50 years. The gallery was started by Inge and James Pataki at 78 Brunswick St. in 1976.

Daniel Allain is the new leader of New Brunswick’s Progressive Conservative party. The former PC cabinet minister scored a comfortable but not overwhelming victory over his only opponent, rookie party MLA Don Monahan, in results announced Saturday.

Potato soup, plumb cake and spruce beer — Maritimes sure had an interesting palate in the 1700 and 1800s.

Nearly 100 mill workers, union leaders and politicians marched through the streets of Nackawic in the shadow of the pulp mill that is soon set to close its doors to hundreds of its employees.

RCMP say they arrested a man in Montreal in connection with their homicide investigation intothe death of Hayven Francis of Elsipogtog First Nation.

A northeast New Brunswick lobster processor has settled a small claims case filed by two former temporary foreign workers over lost wages.

Wolastoqey elder Gina Brooks fears a proposed tungsten mine in New Brunswick could threaten the land she's worked to reconnect with, citing concerns over potential impacts on traditional territory and waterways.

A Canadian company claims in a lawsuit that it was months into negotiations and had signed letters of intent and exclusivity with the Port of Belledune when the authority pulled out from a project to manufacture explosives and revive mining.

Clean fuel charges paid by motorists on gasoline overtook New Brunswick's gas tax in size for the first time during the spring and summer, as costs of the federal policy to New Brunswick consumers surged well beyond original projections.

N.B. Power says it currently has 10 data centre projects that have applied to connect to its electrical system. The utility says the applications in its "connection queue" don't mean the data centres will be "realized."

Federal and provincial governments are replenishing the Atlantic Fisheries Fund, with a new focus on market diversification in response to the continuing trade war with the U.S.

New Brunswick RCMP have identified 21-year-old Hayven Francis as the victim of a homicide this week on Elsipogtog First Nation in eastern New Brunswick.

Police are still searching for a man in connection with a homicide Tuesday morning on Elsipogtog First Nation. RCMP also identified the victim as 21-year-old Hayven Francis.