Madawaska, Canada News

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.

Nominations have opened for byelections to fill vacant seats in two area municipalities.

Melanie Clark, left, business development and tourism director for Florenceville-Bristol, Art Clowes, centre, secretary of the New Brunswick division of the Canadian Railway Historical Association, and Louis Picard, right, project executive from the department of wellness, culture and sport, took part in the launch of a website Thursday to showcase ...

For some, their service to their country was years ago, but they have not been forgotten.

New Brunswick poultry producer Groupe Westco and Quebec meat packer Olymel have signed a labour deal for a joint-venture poultry plant that is to be built in New Brunswick.

Will the report on the Future of Local Governance released last year provide the spark to forge the communities of Grand Falls, Drummond, Saint-Andre and surrounding areas into New Brunswick's newest city? Business and municipal development leaders seem eager to take the leap but municipal politicians are suggesting a cautious approach.

St. Agatha - A man is presumed drowned in the waters along Long Lake in the Madawaska-St. Agatha area.