New Brunswick News

FREDERICTON — A group of experts is sounding the alarm about a proposal from the New Brunswick government that could result in forced treatment for drug users.

ST. STEPHEN, N.B. — Post-tropical storm Lee may have thrown a wrench into Sarah and Dave Roy's wedding plans, but the newlyweds feel the upheaval it caused on their big day is nothing but a positive sign for their future life together.

FREDERICTON — New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs says he is not going anywhere, despite dissent earlier this year from within his Progressive Conservative party.

SAINT JOHN, N.B. — The mayor of Saint John, N.B., says a fire at a metal recycling plant has been contained and the citywide shelter-in-place advisory is now lifted.

SAINT JOHN, N.B. — A notice asking residents in some parts of Saint John, N.B., to stay indoors Thursday was expanded to include the entire city as a fire at a metal recycling yard along the harbour sent plumes of hazardous smoke into the air.

FREDERICTON — The latest changes made by the Education Department to New Brunswick's policy on sexual orientation and gender identity in schools have made it more discriminatory, says the province's child and youth advocate.

FREDERICTON — The Canadian Civil Liberties Association has filed a court action seeking to overturn a key section of New Brunswick's new policy on sexual orientation and gender identity in schools.

FREDERICTON — New Brunswick nursing homes that reported high COVID-19 rates lacked staff and infection-control measures, and did not learn lessons from the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic, says a report by the province's auditor general.

DIEPPE, N.B. — Exactly four years after a New Brunswick couple in their 70s were found dead inside their home in a crime that shook the community, the RCMP announced Thursday that a suspect has been charged.

FREDERICTON — As New Brunswick students begin a new school year, some families worry about the potential for a rise in bullying due to the province's policy on gender identity in schools.