Madawaska, Canada News

The province and the community of Rogersville have agreed to build a public library in the village, located south of Miramichi.

ROY MacGREGOR H ere it is, National Canoe Day, and so far I have only dumped once.

Sue Riedl Last updated on Wednesday, Jun. 24, 2009 09:44AM EDT I f the cheese world held a beauty pageant, Grey Owl could sweep all categories.

Parents need to supervise their children on any kind of vehicle, said a cousin of a boy who died this week from injuries suffered in a utility vehicle crash near Sainte-Anne-De-Madawaska, N.B. Scott Paul Ouellette, 10, from Riviere-Verte, N.B., died on Tuesday, a day after the utility vehicle he was riding in flipped over.

RCMP have identified a 10-year-old boy killed in an all-terrain vehicle crash in northwestern New Brunswick.

The 32nd Annual Acadian Festival will take place June 25-28 in Madawaska, Maine.

Fraser Papers Inc. has spent the last three years taking steps to restructure and save its business from decline, according to an affidavit written by company president and chief executive Peter Gordon.

Fraser seeks bankruptcy in Canada, U.S. Fraser Papers officials said Thursday that the companya s decision to seek bankruptcy protection in Canadian and U.S. courts will not have any immediate impact on operations at the firma s Maine mills or other facilities.

Fraser Papers Inc. began a court-supervised restructuring Thursday after seeking protection in Canada and the United States from creditors.

As hundreds of workers clock out of the Fraser Papers mill, the spectre of job losses hangs heavy in the spring air.

A Liberal MP who predicts his riding will be hit hard by the closure of the Fraser Papers Inc.

If crying for cash, or undeserved support, were a sport, Canada's major English-language networks, and the digital providers which carry them, would be gold medal whiners by now.

The provincial government is expanding the Disability Support Program into Saint John and Bathurst this fiscal year, Social Development Minister Mary Schryer said Tuesday.

Tory MLA Jeannot Volpe is quitting provincial politics, announcing he won't run in the next provincial election.

School administrators hope the third time is the charm when SAD 27 and SAD 10 voters go to the polls for a special referendum May 28 to decide the fate of a proposed Alternative Organizational Structure.

Toxic defoliants were sprayed at base in N.B. Gary Goode, who helped organize a protest rally Tuesday, reads a letter demanding an official inquiry into the defoliant spraying at the Canadian military base CFB Gagetown.

A Liberal MP Thursday accused Conservative MPs from the province of failing to protect New Brunswick jobs because a B.C. firm was sole-sourced to do work on Saint John's Harbour Bridge.

Madawaska-Restigouche Liberal MP Jean-Claude D'Amours has called on the Harper Conservatives to ensure that a new U.S. tax credit granted to American pulp and paper producers worth $8 billion will not jeopardize the competitiveness of Canadian pulp and paper industries or cost Canadians their jobs.

Two recent traffic stops netted RCMP about 1.2 million cigarettes on the Trans Canada Highway in northwest New Brunswick.

A Madawaska-Restigouche forestry council wants the federal government to intervene with the United States on behalf of New Brunswick and Canadian pulp and paper companies to ensure a level playing field between the two countries.