It has already blazed through the Far North, becoming the first torch relay to bring the Olympic flame within 817 kilometres of the North Pole by stopping in Alert, in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of Nunavut,

An accident at the PotashCorp New Brunswick mine Saturday has claimed the life of 56-year-old Vincent Mitton of Penobsquis.

For months, residents lived in fear. They avoided going out after dark, left their lights on, kept guns under their beds.

While still well below the government's allowable limits, releases of tritium from the Point Lepreau nuclear plant into the Bay of Fundy were more than six times higher in 2008 than the previous year.

Three New Brunswick teachers and a school have been recognized internationally for their innovative classroom use of technology to improve student learning. The three teachers were among more than 250 from around the world honoured earlier this month at Microsoft's Innovative Education Forum in Brazil.

Carolyn Flanagan is still looking for answers in the disappearance of her uncle, Jim Vanderfluit.

More than 100 people participated in a candlelight vigil for teenager Hilary Bonnell on Saturday night in Fredericton.

Atlantic Canada's economic development agency posted a significant drop in revenue last year but the economy wasn't entirely to blame.

Eric Buckley was a Mirimachi teenager addicted to drugs.

While having asthma might make it difficult to blow the breathalyzer, it's not enough to refuse taking the test, according to a local judge. Charles Leblanc, 32, was stopped last January when he was seen staggering from a local bar and getting behind the wheel of his car.

The cousin of Hilary Bonnell is scheduled to appear in court today on an unrelated sexual assault charge.

The case of a Quebec woman who says she lost her long-term disability benefits because of photos that appeared on Facebook should serve as a reminder that nothing on the Internet is truly private.

An Afghan agency, at one time entrusted to monitor Canadian-captured insurgents in Kandahar, says it has documented nearly 400 cases of torture across the war-ravaged country.

The two Atlantic premiers who object to the agreement to sell most of NB Power says they want a written guarantee that their provinces will have access to the regional power grid if the sale goes through.

The province has set up an advisory panel to study the proposed sale of most of NB Power.

Education officials in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia are refusing to allow the distribution of thousands of copies of a free book aimed at getting six-year-olds to read, saying the literature is racist and promotes stereotyping of First Nations people.

The Justice Department intends to drop manslaughter and weapons charges against one of the Blackwater Worldwide security guards involved in a deadly 2007 Baghdad shooting, prosecutors said in court documents Friday.

Raging floods engulfed northern England's picturesque Lake District on Friday following the heaviest rainfall ever recorded in Britain, killing a police officer and trapping dozens in their swamped homes.

The federal Green Party's deputy leader will be in Moncton today on a grassroots national training tour for candidates and party officials. Adriane Carr is the candidate for Vancouver Centre.

An article published Thursday on C7 stated that Rothesay would be the only Olympic torch stop between Sussex and Saint John.