Miramichi News

Denis St. Germain of the 1st Gretna Green scouts shows off his Master Scout's Award, second from the top.

Miramichi Mayor Gerry Cormier says he'll fight any move to cut bus service between his city and Fredericton.

An Esgenoopetitj First Nation man appeared in Miramichi provincial court yesterday, facing four charges relating to an alleged sexual assault involving a 17-year-old girl over the weekend.

A fire early Monday morning destroyed a business located at 9494 Route 8 in Blissfield near Doaktown.

Just days after RCMP wrapped up a major search of an Esgenoopetitj First Nation home located just steps away from where missing teenager Hilary Bonnell was last seen, police returned to the home on Sunday to make an arrest in an unrelated case.

The following is a list of Remembrance Day ceremonies. * Bathurst 9 a.m.: Ecumenical service at the Legion.

Focus The long shadow of Allan Legere Author David Adams Richards Peter Power/The Globe and Mail When author David Adams Richards recalls the Monster of the Miramichi's horrific rampage, other memories return too of an innocent place in an innocent time David Adams Richards Published on Friday, Oct.

It's a good time for the federal gun registry to die. After 11 years of low-calibre crime-fighting -- shooting blanks at bad guys, backfiring financially or taking aim at all the wrong targets -- the billion-dollar boondoggle uncovered in 2002 by the Auditor General will likely be placed on the de-registration block Wednesday afternoon.

A fuel truck, above, ended up on its side after an accident involving a transport truck on Route 8 on Thursday in Ludlow.

La Mine D'Or Jewellers has extended its Pearls of Hope fund-raiser for breast cancer research.

For Ginette Pellerin, who was among the first in Canada to receive the swine 'flu vaccination, a needle in the arm yesterday was a relatively harmless experience.

A large-scale Miramichi eco-tourism project received a financial shot in the arm yesterday, courtesy of the provincial government.

New Brunswick health-care workers will be the first in Canada to roll up their sleeves and get the swine flu shot starting Thursday.

The provincial Department of Health revoked the licence of a Miramichi restaurant earlier this week after a routine inspection Monday uncovered over 20 health violations.

More than seven decades ago, John and Bertha Harris were attending barn dances in Napan.

Chief Judge Leslie Jackson watches as Judge John Friel signs the Book of State Oaths and Clerk of the Court Matthew Cripps looks on.

It was a hard lesson for a young man caught drunk driving in Miramichi last year, but a lesson the court agreed should not be made easier.

Illegal moose, deer meat sale, endangered lynx earns hefty fine plus jail Published Monday October 19th, 2009 By Laura MacInnis laura.macinnis@miramichileader.com MIRAMICHI - Moose meat, deer meat, lynx meat, and salmon.

"That's where my GPS is sitting, right there," said Nicholas Guitard, pointing at a small ledge in one of his photos of a tall, steep, fast moving waterfall.

When a plane headed from Bouctouche to Bathurst with two men on board disappeared Friday search and rescue teams took to the air to find it.