As the second wave of H1N1 influenza washes over New Brunswick, experts say fear of the pandemic is having a much greater impact than the virus itself on people's lives.

Parise Côté has lived in Edmundston for most of her life, but she didn't see the inside of the city's old United church until 2007, after it was put up for sale.

The Liberal government needs to be more specific about the proposed energy deal with Hydro-Québec, Auditor General Mike Ferguson said Friday.

A military plane crashed late Friday in Russia's Far East and all nine crew members aboard were feared dead, Russian news agencies reported.

Canada and its international allies in Afghanistan must do a better job of developing local police officers and curbing corruption if their counter-insurgency strategy is to succeed, the senior Canadian police official in the country said Friday.

Prime Minister Gordon Brown warned Afghanistan's government on Friday to take action against corruption, saying he would not risk more British lives there unless it reforms.

You could say the owner of the B.C. Okanagan region's biggest feet stomped the competition.

A jury on Friday convicted a man of murdering his former son-in-law, rejecting the man's defence that he was too fat to have run up and down a flight of stairs to commit the crime and make a quick getaway.

Members of at least four hospital boards in Toronto have been offered the swine flu vaccine that's intended for priority groups only, and while one doctor said Friday he now regrets that decision another said it's the right thing to do.

A newly released report may add to the pressure on Health Canada to release $500 million it has frozen while federal officials decide the merits of a national eHealth project.

The Conservation Council of New Brunswick has released its latest report "Traditional Ecological Knowledge and the New Brunswick Forest: A Conversation."

TD Canada Trust Award for the Arts Organization of the Year: $3,000 to the Frye Festival in Moncton for developing young audiences for the literary arts.

The RCMP are investigating a bizarre ATV theft. A man recently entered a business on Marble Street and asked to take a yellow, 2007 Suzuki ATV for a test drive. The ATV, however, was never returned.

The H1N1 flu pandemic is forcing the hospitalization of a steadily growing number of New Brunswickers, says the province's chief medical officer of health.

It has been 17 years since Wilbur and Irene Beatrice Dedam lost their son in a car accident, but still, it hurts.

The Liberal government is freezing municipal funding for next year, meaning cities and towns will have to get by without an extra boost from the province in 2010.

Montreal police say the slaying of a federal corrections employee last month was an entirely random act that had nothing to do with her prison-related job.

Prince Charles trekked through manure-laden mulch Friday and later a construction site as the Prince of Wales' last day in Ontario saw him visit two ventures dedicated to giving city-dwellers a taste of rural living.

Canadian soldiers reacted with horror, dismay and sympathy Friday to the shooting rampage that claimed 13 lives at a U.S. Army base with deep ties to the Canadian military.

An Army psychiatrist suspected of opening fire on fellow soldiers at Fort Hood cleaned out his apartment and left a phone message saying goodbye to a friend in the days before the rampage that left 13 people dead, neighbours said Friday.