Community & Events

Washington County mirrors state and national trends in recruiting and retaining volunteers and career professionals in the fields of public safety.

"I was 22. The girl I'd been with for seven years -- we were engaged -- died as a direct result of a drug overdose. I had two of my best friends die within a year. Then it got worse," Chris Wood says.

The Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) has issued a report on its investigation into the August 16, 2014, air ambulance crash on Grand Manan.

Every February 14 people have a reminder of how important it is to have someone to love or somebody to love you. Some married couples in the Quoddy area have celebrated a great many Valentine Days together and feel very fortunate to have found the right person with whom to share their lives.

His mother's name helped save the life of a Syrian refugee who is now living with his wife and seven of their children in St. Stephen, as they try to rebuild their lives in the shelter of a new country.

A 22-day search in the Cooper area for a dog named Lulu had a happy ending last month. The one-year-old black German shepherd was finally reunited with her very happy owner, Jeremy Sanders, on January 18, after she fled from the scene of a car accident back on December 27.