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.

Social Development Minister Kelly Lamrock says the province will spend in the range of $5 million to $8 million putting the first stages of the poverty reduction plan in place.

The following is an exchange during Friday's question period in the legislature between Opposition Tory member Bruce Fitch, a former energy minister in the previous Conservative administration, and Energy Minister Jack Keir on industrial benefits under the tentative agreement to sell most of the assets NB Power to Hydro-Québec:

Prince Edward Island Premier Robert Ghiz made a quick stop in Fredericton on Friday to give Premier Shawn Graham a boost in his campaign to sell the tentative agreement with Hydro-Québec.

A major shipment of more than 100,000 doses of H1N1 flu vaccine is expected in New Brunswick next week, enough to significantly speed up the inoculation process in the province.

New Brunswick's child and youth advocate called on a group of Fredericton high school students to remember slain teen Hilary Bonnell as they become the leaders of tomorrow.

Poker players in New Brunswick could soon have a legal, online option to play Texas Hold'em.

Hold those tears.

U.S. and Canadian aircraft continued searching an expanse of ocean off Bermuda on Friday for a missing solo sailor from Nova Scotia.

Gilles-Andre Gosselin, a key player in the federal sponsorship scandal, pleaded guilty Friday to several fraud charges.

Canadian troops can return home in 2011 assured that U.S. forces will be able to handle security for Canada's continuing diplomatic and development mission in Kandahar, Defence Minister Peter MacKay said Friday.

A retired State Department worker and his wife, accused of a decades-long plot to spy for Cuba, pleaded guilty Friday in a deal that will leave him in jail for the rest of his life but gives her a chance at freedom after six years.

With no margin for rebellion, Senate Democrats pushed toward a crucial weekend test vote on their sweeping health care bill Friday, and wavering moderates appeared to be falling in line on U.S. President Barack Obama's signature issue.

Holding back tears, Oprah Winfrey told her studio audience Friday that she would end her show in 2011 after a quarter-century on the air, saying prayer and careful thought led her to her decision.