Miramichi News

Although out-of-work woodsmen and mill workers in Miramichi won't be getting the early Christmas gift they had hoped for, it will likely be a Happy New Year with the provincial government and a Quebec forestry company set to make a significant announcement involving a shuttered mill.

The Miramichi Salvation Army has been providing under-privileged families with the basic necessities of life for over 100 years.

An Esgenoopetitj First Nation man accused of murdering a 16-year-old girl and sexually assaulting a 17-year-old girl in separate incidents is due to appear in Miramichi provincial court on Monday.

Miramichi has launched an autism registry for first responders, which is believed to be the first in Canada.

A 46-year old Miramichi, N.B., man has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for strangling an elderly man to death at a Moncton inn last August.

To say that Christmas came early this year for Erma Fowlie would be a massive understatement.

A spokesman for St. Thomas University says there's no set timeline for setting up a satellite campus in Miramichi.

A 29-year-old Esgenoopetitj First Nation man re-appeared in Miramichi provincial court yesterday for election and plea on four charges stemming from an alleged sexual assault.

OLIVER MOORE A New Brunswick monastery that felt a blast of outrage over its willingness to harbour disgraced Roman Catholic Bishop Raymond Lahey is facing new heat over farming practices that critics call "unchristian." The animal-rights group PETA, which earlier prompted monks at a U.S. abbey to quit raising chickens, is hoping scripture, moral ...

A 29-year-old New Brunswick man has been charged with first-degree murder in the death of a 16-year-old girl.

Anyone experiencing flu-like symptoms including cough, fever, general aches and pains, sore throat and runny nose are being asked to postpone planned visits to patients in hospitals and health-care facilities within the Horizon Health Network.

The provincial government announced more than $400 million in funding over five years for nursing homes Thursday, including the construction of three new facilities in the region.

With the onset of December, the holiday shopping blitz is well under way in Miramichi and municipalities around the province.

For Miramichiers looking over the details of the province's latest budget and noticing the region is conspicuous by its absence from planned health care, infrastructure and education projects, local MLAs say there will be plenty in store for Miramichi in 2010-2011. Miramichi Centre MLA and Public Safety Minister John Foran said yesterday that from ...

With the province's population of seniors expected to double over the next two decades, the provincial government took steps yesterday to ease the strain on New Brunswick's aging nursing homes and on the province's hospitals.

Shea Harris thought it was a shot in the dark when he applied for a Millennium Excellence Award last spring.

A shuttered Miramichi mill is one step away from being brought back to life, according to provincial officials.

A Christmas gala hosted by Miramichi Centre MLA and Public Safety Minister John Foran Friday night doubled as a Liberal nomination convention for the electoral district.

From left, 2010 Olympic Torch Relay bearers Nadine Stewart, Malcolm Bowes and Cassie Kervin hold up their torches at the end of the five-person relay in Doaktown on Friday.

Even with the presence of a bitter cold driving rain, the Olympic Flame burned brightly as it arrived in Miramichi yesterday.