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The Serious Incident Response Team (SiRT) has cleared a Sussex RCMP officer after reviewing a case where a young man was injured during an arrest. The finding comes from SiRT's director, who is responsible for investigating serious incidents involving police in New Brunswick. The incident happened on June 26, 2025, whe...

Southern New Brunswick is in for a spell of warm, wet and windy weather. Environment Canada said a fast‑moving system will arrive Friday afternoon. The federal weather agency issued the advisory Wednesday afternoon for Fredericton, Saint John, Moncton, St. Stephen, Grand Manan, Fundy National Park and surrounding cou...

A multimillion-dollar settlement has been reached in a class action lawsuit over an Air Canada crash at the Halifax airport, ten years ago. Wagners Law says it is for $18 million to cover legal fees and expenses. It was in March of 2015, when the flight coming in from Toronto, hit power lines, causing the plane to land...

A New Brunswick policing team is getting national attention for its crime‑reduction work. The New Brunswick RCMP said the province's Integrated Enforcement Unit has been chosen for the 2024 Innovation in Crime Reduction Award. The award was created under its Vision 150 initiative to highlight policing teams that used...

A new surgical option in New Brunswick is changing how some patients receive foot and ankle care. Horizon Health Network said its Saint John orthopedic team is now offering "awake" foot and ankle surgery, a technique that uses local anesthesia and surgeon‑administered nerve blocks instead of general anesthe...

Uniform change is on the way for frontline officers in New Brunswick, and the public will start seeing it early in 2026. The RCMP said officers in the province will begin wearing new navy‑blue uniform shirts as part of a national effort to modernize the police service's appearance. The rollout is happening across the...

New Brunswick's Point Lepreau Nuclear Generating Station is back online following a five-month maintenance outage that extended longer than originally planned. NB Power says the generating station officially returned to service Sunday, after a turbine bearing problem added roughly two weeks to the planned shutdown. The...

Two RCMP officers were cleared of any wrongdoing in relation to an impaired driving investigation that involved an RCMP officer's son. On Feb. 11, the officer's son was in a crash and had his license suspended after a roadside impaired driving investigation by a Justice Department officer, according to a news release f...

A late‑night fire in Norton has displaced about a dozen residents and damaged several buildings on Perkins Drive. Valley Waters Mayor Randy McKnight said a house, garage, shed, and a four‑unit apartment building were destroyed in the fire Thursday night. He said a second apartment building is still standing but has...

Regular self‑serve gasoline prices in New Brunswick dropped again on Friday night. The province's Energy and Utilities Board (EUB) activated its interrupter clause to make the adjustment. An industry source said the clause was triggered because of market conditions. This has lowered the maximum price of regular selfâ...