Moncton News

With nearly 20 years of service under his green beret, Warrant Officer Earl Rouzes has seen his share of destruction in some of the world's most war-ravaged countries, but the Moncton-based construction engineer firmly believes that Canada is making a difference by helping people help themselves.

Back in 2005, a woman named Catherine Bentley wrote to us from England seeking the Times & Transcript's help.

Members of four Moncton-area United churches voted over the weekend to start the process that could lead to their amalgamation.

Dieppe is proposing a bylaw that will require all future commercial signs on the exterior of buildings in the southeastern New Brunswick city to be either in French or bilingual.

Musee Acadien is holding a rug hooking exhibition entitled Les Hookeuses du Bor'de'lo until Wednesday, Dec.

A Metro Moncton reservist solider wounded two years ago when the armoured vehicle he was driving was destroyed by a roadside bomb will be among the first to receive Canada's new Sacrifice Medal from Governor General Michaelle Jean.

As the Government of New Brunswick embarks on a massive public relations effort to convince the public of the value of the NB Power sale and the Opposition attempts to deride it, the facts of the deal may be getting left behind.

Experts have long predicted the inevitable arrival of another influenza pandemic as deadly as the one that killed millions around the world in the early 20th century.

Some news stories only affect or interest a small number of people. Others affect a whole lot of us.

A Riverview town councillor has been fined and had his drivers licence suspended after pleading guilty to failing the breathalyser.

Is it a handshake with the devil or a match made in heaven? Stephen MacGillivray photo Premier Shawn Graham and Quebec Premier Jean Charest announced the sale of NB Power to Hydro-Quebec at Government house on Thursday.

Boo! EEEEEEEK! Run folks, 'tis Halloween and the grapevine's humming with all kinds of odd noises, sounds and frights.

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

Lawrence Frederick Goulette took the stand in his own defence yesterday and said he never sexually assaulted a woman eight years ago.

A Metro woman described an incident right out of every woman's worst nightmare to a Moncton courtroom yesterday afternoon, as she told of being sexually assaulted by a stranger in her Arden Street backyard on an August night in 2001.

Metro Moncton has weathered the recent global storm well and is well-positioned to keep growing as the economy improves, economists with the BMO financial group said yesterday.

A "smear campaign" against cervical cancer has been launched across Canada in an effort to encourage all women to have a pap test, a woman's best defence against cervical cancer.

Overcrowding in Moncton's three French elementary schools has a pair of parent committees and the president of the education council at School District 1 calling on the province to begin construction on a new francophone school immediately.

A deal with Hydro-Quebec to acquire or use NB Power assets to distribute electricity to New England could lower energy bills and provide funding for projects in New Brunswick.

Just about everybody I know loves the sweet yet salty taste of lobster, but does Metro Moncton really have a case of lobster envy? When it comes to big things that make tourists screech to a halt, jump out and run with their cameras, Shediac's giant concrete crustacean seems to have it all.