As firefighters tried to cool down the hot ashes and charred wood of a gutted building at the former Kingsclear Central Reformatory, an RCMP officer knocked on doors of neighbouring houses to see if residents noticed anything unusual Monday morning.

Wendy's customers on Prospect Street were turned away from the fast-food restaurant Monday as the establishment voluntarily shut its doors to conduct a thorough cleaning and quality control review.

The Liberal government is about to unleash a slick, million-dollar public relations campaign to convince New Brunswickers that the flawed deal to sell NB Power to Hydro-Quebec is a good idea, says Opposition Leader David Alward.

A Noonan woman who made up a kidnapping story to explain a sudden trip to Toronto last summer spoke briefly about the incident Monday.

New Brunswick's dwindling supply of H1N1 vaccine is making it tough for the province to schedule vaccination clinics.

The unofficial winning numbers in Monday's Keno draw were: 4, 10, 11, 16, 20, 22, 32, 33, 34, 37, 44, 47, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 64, 66, 68.

A presentation on the Second World War will be made at the Marysville Heritage Centre on Nov. 10 by Marc Milner, director of the Gregg Centre for the Study of War and Society at the University of New Brunswick.

Total housing starts in New Brunswick are expected to nudge up to 3,535 units in 2010, following a decline to 3,400 units so far in 2009, says Canada Mortage and Housing Corp. in its new housing market outlook.

An early morning blaze destroyed a home at 199 Main St. in Doaktown on Monday.

An Oromocto First Nation woman who grabbed cash from a woman at an ATM did so because she believed the victim damaged her car and owed her for the repairs.

Health officials are working on measures that will help New Brunswickers with chronic illnesses access the H1N1 vaccine more easily, but they won't be ready for a little while.

A defence lawyer representing a Tracyville man accused of multiple sex crimes asked for another adjournment in the case Monday, this time because his client just revealed key information to him.

Smoke and fire damaged a St. Mary's First Nation home at 495 Maliseet Dr. after a fire ignited in the kitchen.

New Brunswick should keep control of its electricity distribution network to promote the development of green power, says David Coon, executive director of the Conservation Council of New Brunswick.

Two women are facing charges after shots were fired at a residence in Sunbury County last week.

HMCS Fredericton is deployed on a six-month mission to the Arabian Sea, Gulf of Aden and Horn of Africa to conduct counterpiracy and counter-terror operations alongside NATO and coalition partners.

Albert Street was cordoned off Monday over the lunch hour after a worker using an excavator to do work on a private driveway struck a buried natural gas line.

About a half dozen people facing fines for speeding in school zones in Oromocto saw those tickets tossed out Monday when a judge ruled the signage about lower speeds was vague.

The head of New Brunswick's contact industry association says he expects many of the workers who are losing their jobs at the Avis Budget Group customer contact centre later this year will find jobs at a job fair this month.

The remains of a young Canadian woman whose coffin was left unclaimed in England for more than 90 years will finally be laid to rest this month at her family plot in New Brunswick.