Some New Brunswick students have been invited to take to the stage at the world's largest arts festival in Scotland, but have to raise nearly $200,000 to get there.

Police are expanding their search in a criminal investigation in northeastern New Brunswick believed to be connected to the case of 16-year-old Hilary Bonnell, who has been missing for two months.

A record number of New Brunswickers were working in October, as the province continues to buck the national trend, Statistics Canada reports.

The New Brunswick government has abandoned plans to build a new Saint John courthouse as a public-private partnership, saying it will be less expensive to build through a traditional public-sector process.

The New Brunswick Securities Commission has issued a temporary order preventing a Panama-based company from trading in the province.

The province of P.E.I. does not have sufficiently strong mechanisms to protect foreign workers from exploitation, a concern the federal auditor general highlighted in a report this week.

Summerside Mayor Basil Stewart is calling on his municipal counterparts in Nova Scotia to end their Bell Aliant contracts in light of the company's decision to close 11 call centres in Atlantic Canada.

The scheduled downtime of Cavendish Farms' operations could be more extensive than originally reported, with shutdowns continuing into the new year if the economy doesn't improve.

Crews in Charlottetown will begin laying the groundwork Monday for two road construction projects designed to improve traffic flow.

Charlottetown police are investigating after an anonymous tipster called about a sawed-off shotgun found in a box.

The City of Charlottetown has formally stated its support for the development of a bid to host the 2011 East Coast Music Association Awards, Festival and Conference.

To the enthusiastic applause of students, parents and staff the new Adapted Playground Climber at West Royalty Elementary has been officially opened.

There is one winning ticket for the $50-million jackpot prize in Friday's Lotto Max draw _ and it was sold somewhere in Manitoba.

The effusive testimonials read like a late-night TV advertorial. The difference is Armand Martin won’t make a penny from all the unabashed praise heaped forward from the many appreciative karate students who have come under his skilled and caring tutelage.

The P.E.I. government is not ruling out financial help to the Irving-owned Cavendish Farms in an effort to avoid rolling shutdowns next year.

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.

Fredericton, N.B. - Dr. Eilish Cleary, New Brunswick's chief medical health officer, says 33 New Brunswicker's were hospitalized with the flu this week.

SAINT JOHN, NB - After dozens of clinic postponements in the past week a mass H1N1 vaccination clinic for priority groups is being held in Saint John today.

SAINT JOHN, NB - As the list of postponed H1N1 clinics grows longer, priority groups will be able to attend two clinics scheduled for Sussex and Saint John.

MONCTON, NB - Travel could get a bit messy across the Maritimes over the next 24 hours. Meteorologist Richard Zurawski says a disturbance moving up the coast will bring us rain and anywhere from two to four centimetres of snow overnight.

SAINT JOHN, NB - City fire crews battled a blaze at 333 Main Street in the North End last night. District Chief, Gerry Morris says crews were called out around 6:30.

Prince Charles laughed at the antics of Olympic mascots as he and his wife Camilla stood for a photo opportunity with the 2010 Olympic characters in Vancouver.

A Minnesota teen who fled the state to avoid chemotherapy has finished his cancer treatment.

A man is facing charges including theft of a police vehicle and assaulting an officer after an arrest gone wrong in Labrador.

Saudi warplanes and artillery bombarded a Shiite rebel stronghold in northern Yemen Saturday for a third straight day, according to the rebel fighters, and Yemen's president vowed to wipe out the insurrection.

Israel's president on Saturday called on Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas to rescind his decision to stand down, invoking the memory of Yitzhak Rabin at a public commemoration for the assassinated Israeli premier.

MONCTON, N.B. - Codiac RCMP brought in the Tri-County Search and Rescue to search the area around the home of a Dieppe woman who was sexually assaulted by a man who broke into her home.

FREDERICTON, N.B. - Health officials in New Brunswick say 40,000 more doses of swine flu vaccine are expected to arrive in the province by the middle of next week.

DIEPPE, NB - Now that the City of Dieppe and airport officials have kissed and made up, work will continue as planned on the extension of Dieppe's Aviation Avenue.

MONCTON, NB - New swine flu vaccination clinics are being scheduled in Southeastern New Brunswick, including some for the general public. A look at the government's website, www.gnb.ca/flu , this morning shows members of the general public will have several chances to roll up their sleeve in the later half of next week.

FREDERICTON, N.B. - The provincial health minister is anticipating the next shipment of H1N1 vaccine to be a large one. Earlier this week, the health department acknowledged the province received just one-quarter of the vaccine supply it had expected in its latest shipment.

The Friends of the UNB Woodlot has scored a partial victory in its quest to have larger buffers protecting Corbett Brook Marsh.

The unemployment rate in Fredericton fell to 4.1 per cent in October, down from 4.6 per cent in September, according to the latest data from Statistics Canada.

A 25-year-old Fredericton man was sentenced to a year in jail for his part in a brutal assault last summer outside the Hilltop Grill and Beverage Co. on Prospect Street.

Fredericton is getting $5.8 million for an unconditional grant for 2010, which is the same as last year.

The following are the unconditional grants for 2010 announced Friday for communities in the Fredericton area:

SUMMERSIDE Paul Crabbe’s advice to Summerside’s Olympic torch bearers is simple.

SUMMERSIDE ­– Union officials are breathing a little easier following a meeting this week with the Office of Public Safety.

SUMMERSIDE – A local accommodations owner is once again upset with Summerside’s hotel room levy, saying the city is using the money to benefit only larger hotels.

SUMMERSIDE?– A group of 25 Department of Education and Early Childhood Development employees began working in Summerside this week as part of the department’s permanent relocation.

SATURDAY Craft, Bake Sale Crapaud Curling Club is hosting a Craft and Bake Sale. Admission is $2,  children under 10 free.