Bernard Richard was named this year's recipient of the annual Muriel McQueen Fergusson Foundation Award, for years of crusading against family violence.

City officials are worried about a new pest that could devastate Fredericton's 14,000 ash trees.

Reducing the speed limit along the Trans-Canada Highway in New Brunswick would cut down on pollution and help curb excessive fuel consumption without the financial sting of a carbon tax, says a climate change expert.

New Brunswick's tinder-dry forests and hot weather prompted the Department of Natural Resources to issue a provincewide ban Tuesday on all open fires.

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The unofficial winning numbers in Tuesday's Keno draw were: 6, 8, 15, 19, 21, 24, 25, 27, 28, 30, 31, 32, 39, 41, 46, 52, 58, 60, 61 and 67.

MAKE A WISH: Tammy Blyth watches her three-year old son, leonardo Blyth, toss a coin into the fountain in front of city hall recently.

Frederictonians will have their chance today to tell the Liberal government what they think about paying more for energy and increasing the HST by two per cent in return for lower incomes taxes.

The Liberal government may need a little more time to decide whether to buy the Boyce Farmers Market in Fredericton, says the supply and services minister.

A University of New Brunswick educator will spend a year in Germany as a visiting professor beginning this month.

TOURIST SEASON: randine arnesen of nelsen, B.C., reads the Fredericton tour guide recently on the Green in Fredericton. arnesen was in town with her husband as part of the University of new Brunswick forestry alumni breakfast.

The Province of New Brunswick is reminding motorists that the fines for speeding in construction zones have doubled.

If you want to get through to troubled and at-risk youth, punishments and rewards aren't the answer, but rather creating opportunities for them to succeed, a social-work expert told a gathering of local youth workers Tuesday.

Tuesday's workshop for child and youth workers was more than a way to impart new methods and philosophies, but also a means to support a new organization working to improve the system.

Vandalism problems in Chipman are on the rise, village council was told at its regular meeting Monday.

P.E.I. Finance Minister Wes Sheridan says he and his counterparts from the other three Atlantic provinces have decided to meet at least twice a year to discuss issues of mutual concern.

The Fredericton Fire Department responded to a Cadillac on fire at the Super Suds car wash on Two Nations Crossing on Tuesday around 2 p.m.

An advanced statistician from Mount Allison University says she's tired of the French second-language debate being clouded by inaccurate math.

Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day is scheduled to visit New Brunswick this week, fuelling speculation a six-year battle between area airport CEOs and the federal government over customs staffing levels might be coming to a head.

Several minutes of video from a street camera in downtown Digby, N.S., reveal some interesting things about the night two local black men claim they were harassed and taunted by some off-duty cops, says the father of one of the men.