Bathurst Area News

POLICE are hunting three armed men who threatened and robbed a service station attendant at Blair Athol early this morning.

Such will be the case when a new monument is unveiled at Veteran's Memorial Park in Bass River on Canada Day to remember animals whose lives were sacrificed in times of war.

The Harper government has spurned the advice of experts recommending that it spend money to promote culture in two Quebec towns, choosing instead to give more than $3 million to the Niagara region in Ontario and Calgary, Postmedia News has learned.

Tad Pfupa, 13, demonstrates exercises he does in the physical education ACE program at Camilla Road Senior Public School in Mississauga on May 16, 2012.

Campers heading into Kouchibouguac National Park will no longer be allowed to bring in their own firewood because there's a risk the wood could be harbouring tree-destroying brown spruce longhorn beetles.

Want to hear a pitch for a movie? It's sort of a 3-D sequel to Terry Gilliam's Brazil , except twice as weird and four times as depressing.

Former chairman of the city's executive committee Frank Zampino walks past reporters as he leaves Quebec Provincial Police headquarters after being arrested by the anti-corruption unit Thursday, May 17, 2012 in Montreal.

Austerity measures in Europe have sparked protests and political chaos. But belt tightening has also sparked unrest closer to home.

By comparing the testosterone levels of five-month old pairs of twins, both identical and non-identical, University of Montreal researchers were able to establish that testosterone levels in infancy are not inherited genetically but rather determined by environmental factors.

Research with infant twins suggests that the environment plays a greater role than genes when it comes to testosterone levels.

Hunter Jacques Mallet, who shot the animal at Saint-Simon, near Caraquet on April 6, told CBC News he's surprised and saddened by the confirmation that it was a wolf.

Ikea Canada has begun the expansion of one of its two stores here in North America's largest French-speaking city, which when completed in summer 2013 will be the company's largest outlet in North America with 469,694 square feet of retail space.

Metro, the grocery chain that operates across Ontario and Quebec, has cancelled a supply agreement with a Quebec co-operative that produces hormone- and antibiotic-free beef, citing the unwillingness of its customers to pay an extra 15 per cent for the local, naturally raised product.

DNA tests show a large animal shot on the Acadian Peninsula last month was a wolf, hunter Jacques Mallet told CBC News on Tuesday.

A Defence Research and Development Canada crew returns to HMCS Summerside following minesweeping exercises as part of Frontier Sentinel 12.

In the hierarchy of Christianity's Seven Deadly Sins, pride is usually considered the most serious of sins and the cause of Lucifer's fall from grace, as he tried to usurp God's power.

A 34-year-old Shippagan man has been sentenced to one year in jail for stealing money from two churches.

CANNIBAL CORPSE drummer Paul Mazurkiewicz will take part in a meet-and-greet on Wednesday, May 16 at Boutique Labryinthe in Montreal, Quebec, Canada from 2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. Boutique Labryinthe 486 Sainte-Catherine Street West Montreal, QC H3B 1A6, Canada 861-3697 As previously reported, Mazurkiewicz will serve as a special guest judge for Round ... (more)

In the early morning hours of Sunday April 29th 2012, a 49 year old Hatian born Montreal cabbie by the name of Guercy Edmond was officially charged with one count of "hit-and-run causing injury", one count of "dangerous driving", one count of "aggravated assault" and one count of "assault with a weapon", - the weapon being his vehicule / taxi.A The ... (more)

An eyewitness to a recent crash of a sheriff's van in northern New Brunswick says the prisoners were bounced like "marbles in a can," raising questions about the way inmates are transported.