Edmundston News

The Yukon Quest 300 Sled Dog Race did not disappoint its top three finishers. Fort Yukon musher Josh Cadzow won his second Quest 300, using it as an opportunity to look at some dogs as he prepares for the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race this March.

The Honourable Bernard Valcourt, Minister of State for the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency and for La Francophonie, will be in Edmundston on Friday for the official openings being held at the new College communautaire du Nouveau-Brunswick campus and the Universite de Moncton campus.

A chicken processor in northwest New Brunswick is being accused of putting too much pressure on its workers to help save the company.

Premier David Alward says the finance minister's claim that excessive election campaign promises are the number one cause of the province's debt problem does not apply to his government.

Premier David Alward listens to Finance Minister Blaine Higgs talk at a pre-budget meeting in Woodstock on Monday night.

Federal interim Liberal Leader Bob Rae is accusing New Brunswick's Progressive Conservative government of stopping him from appearing at a community college in Edmundston.

Creditors who are owed more than $11 million from companies owned by a New Brunswick farmer jailed in Lebanon have voted in favour of a plan to reorganize the companies.

The New Brunswick SPCA has shut down another puppy mill in northern New Brunswick, seizing 45 sick dogs from a home in Saint-Basile. The owner could be facing charges of neglect and failing to provide proper medical care, said chief animal protection officer Paul Melanson.

Nadeau, located in Saint-Francois, near Edmundston, processes thousands of chicken every hour, but as of Friday, it eliminated its second shift because it can't get enough chickens.