Carmen Feeney‑Alley of Jonesport knows what it's like to love someone struggling with addiction. Her son Jamie, a veteran of the war in Iraq, started using heroin after becoming addicted to painkillers prescribed for an injury.

A nearly 20-year search for the source of the black granite headstones that mark the graves in a Halifax cemetery of 149 victims of the sinking of the Titanic has led a retired geology professor, with the help of a local prospector, to find the quarry for the rock just outside St. Andrews.

It sounds like a good Irish lark: a chair placed near Market Square in Saint John in memory of a Northern Ireland native found its way into the Bay of Fundy, rode the winter currents to Grand Manan, and is now back where it started and only a little the worse for wear...

One young boy from Eastport who has been battling health problems from birth is impatiently waiting for a new heart at the Boston Children's Hospital.