2025
New apartments to help address lack of St. Stephen housing
A private developer plans to start work in January on building a 66‑apartment residential building on the site of the old Border Area Community Arena in St. Stephen.
Derwin Gowan
2025
Increasing incivility discouraging officials from seeking reelection
St. Stephen Mayor Allan MacEachern says that increasing incivility and harassment directed at elected councillors, municipal staff and volunteers make many people think twice about offering for public office.
2025
Border communities struggle with changes
Calais Mayor Marcia Rogers says that she and her friends will continue to cross the St. Croix River to St. Stephen – to eat at Kentucky Fried Chicken, Tim Horton's, Burger King or Pizza Delight, if for no other reason.
2025
St. Stephen's homeless continue struggling despite open shelter
Robert McFarlane sat on a picnic bench on the grass in front of St. Stephen's University (SSU), adapting tools to work on his bicycle. He has stayed at the Lighthouse Lodge shelter for homeless people, just across Main Street from the university, since late winter.
2025
Provincial cabinet eyes ferry service to Campobello
New Brunswick's provincial cabinet might take up an invitation to meet on Campobello Island, according to Premier Susan Holt.
2025
St. Stephen apartment building boarded up; 30 people evicted
Life might settle down for residents and business owners on lower Marks Street, St. Stephen, these days, but about 30 former neighbours now need new places to live. Police showed up at 18 Marks St. on Friday morning, March 7, with a judge's order...
2025
Economic impacts of tariffs feared along the border
Business and community leaders on both sides of the St. Croix River hope that cooler heads prevail over talk of tariffs. Earlier this month U.S.