Madawaska, Canada News

The following is an exchange during Friday's question period in the legislature between Opposition Tory member Bruce Fitch, a former energy minister in the previous Conservative administration, and Energy Minister Jack Keir on industrial benefits under the tentative agreement to sell most of the assets NB Power to Hydro-Quebec: Mr.

Mayor Stephen Brunet is pleased with how a meeting went last week between three northern mayors and federal Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff.

Maine's chief justice said Thursday that she is hopeful the judicial branch can find ways to weather the next round of deep budget cuts without closing courthouses in rural areas of the state.

More than 50 poultry workers from northwestern New Brunswick gathered at the legislature yesterday to protest the Liberal government's handling of the so-called chicken wars.

Federal Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff and MP for Madawaska-Restigouche Jean-Claude D'Amours met the mayors of Bathurst, Campbellton, and Edmunston, last evening in advance of a Liberal Party fundraiser to discuss economic development in Northern New Brunswick.

Construction has started on 32.4 km of wildlife fencing along the Trans-Canada Highway in Madawaska County, Transportation Minister Denis Landry announced.

It's rare that an MP parts with his leader on a national issue that is defining for political parties and divisive among Canadians.

The New Brunswick Arts Board, the city and the federal and provincial governments are providing $70,000 to fund artists who want to create community arts projects in the city.

Liberal politicians lined up Monday to denounce the Harper government's protections against gouging by the credit- and debit-card industry as toothless and to demand immediate action.

During the Societe des Jeux de l'Acadie banquet, one part of its annual general meeting held in Saint John on October 24, the names of the municipalities that will host the games in 2011 and 2012 were announced.

Nan Pelletier, the 2009 Quilter of the Year, welcomes guests to her display at the Maine Quilts show at the Augusta Civic Center on July 25.

A Maine railway has plans to shut down a large swath of track in the state in a move industrial firms in New Brunswick are decrying as a loss of a key transportation service.

Transport: Provincial companies will need to find a freight shipping solution if the Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway abandons its Madawaska-to-Millinocket railway B1 REBECCA PENTY Telegraph-Journal A Maine railway company has plans to shut down a long stretch of track in the state in a move industrial firms are decrying as a loss of key ...

A young aboriginal woman from northwestern New Brunswick is going to Greece next week to get the Olympic flame.

Voters in three New Brunswick communities have byelections scheduled for Monday to elect new council members.

The Madawaska-Victoria RCMP are investigating an armed robbery that occurred in Saint-Basile earlier this week.

A teacher from the Madawaska Maliseet First Nation has won national recognition for her work with aboriginal children and their families.

The family of a missing Fredericton man searched the cool, deep waters of the St.

On September 29, members of J Division's Customs and Excise Unit in St. Leonard and Madawaska-Victoria RCMP seized 34,200 illegal cigarettes and a 2009 Toyota Camry in Riviere- Verte.

The Liberal government is dishing out $11 million for road and highway construction projects in northwest New Brunswick.