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FREDERICTON — Members of the only synagogue in New Brunswick's capital city are reeling Sunday from a recent act of vandalism that felt all the more painful for taking place on a global day to honour victims of the Holocaust.

FREDERICTON — Police in New Brunswick say they are investigating whether damage to a Fredericton synagogue was "targeted hostility.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — The massive, overturned hull of a seemingly ancient ship has appeared without warning along the southwestern tip of Newfoundland, dazzling nearby residents eager to know who may have been aboard and how it met its fate.

SAINT JOHN, N.B. — A New Brunswick RCMP officer found guilty of assaulting a 16-year-old girl who he was hoping to marry has been given a two-year sentence to be served in the community.

RIVIERE-AU-RENARD, Que. — Nearly three decades after a moratorium was put in place, the commercial redfish fishery is set to reopen in Quebec and Atlantic Canada this year, Fisheries Minister Diane Lebouthillier announced Friday.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — The federal housing advocate was in St. John's, N.L., this week to join the leader of the Nunatsiavut Inuit in his long-standing fight for an end to the "deplorable" housing conditions in northern Labrador.

CHARLOTTETOWN — Police in Prince Edward Island say they have solved a 35-year-old homicide case involving a man who was strangled and stabbed in his home by someone who left a message saying, "I will kill again.

HALIFAX — A Nova Scotia judge has upheld the provincial environment minister's approval of a 17-turbine wind farm in the Wentworth Valley.

FREDERICTON — New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs delivered his state of the province speech Thursday, singing the praises of his government's achievements and making a passing mention to the changes made to the policy on gender identity in school, as

HALIFAX — Citing the need to cut a backlog in court cases, Nova Scotia’s Justice Minister Brad Johns on Thursday announced 27 new permanent staff to bolster the ranks of the province’s public prosecution service.