New Brunswick News

FREDERICTON — Christmas Day began for more than 500 customers in New Brunswick without power and by the night that number was down to just under 80 customers affected.

SAINT ANDREWS, N.B.

SAINT JOHN, N.B. — Two New Brunswick men whose murder convictions in 1984 were quashed Friday by the federal justice minister will appear before a court next month to see if a new trial will proceed, a director with Innocence Canada said.

FREDERICTON — New Brunswick's power utility says it aims to have electricity restored to all its customers by Christmas, after a storm Monday evening knocked out the lights to more than 100,000 homes and businesses.

FREDERICTON — Two days after a wind and rain storm tore through New Brunswick, more than 30,000 customers in the province remained in the dark late Wednesday.

SAINT JOHN, N.B.

SAINT JOHN, N.B. — Police in Saint John, N.B., say a man has died in their custody. The Saint John Police Force says in a news release officers detained a 48-year-old man on Thursday for allegedly being intoxicated in public.

FREDERICTON — At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, New Brunswick's Health Department issued 33 recommendations without evidence to substantiate them, the province's auditor general says.

FREDERICTON — New Brunswick's Progressive Conservative government has released its strategy to become carbon neutral within 12 years through the use of nuclear, wind and solar energy.

SACKVILLE, N.B. — A resource centre for Black students at New Brunswick's Mount Allison University was the target last week of hate speech and vandalism, but school officials have declined to tell students what happened.