Local News

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police on Campobello are investigating the sudden death of a 62-year-old man from Cape Cod who was swept into the water near Head Harbour Lighthouse, also known as East Quoddy Head Light, on Tuesday, September 8.

With increasing pressure for the provincial government to drop its plan to reduce the Deer Island ferry service to only one vessel for a four and one-half month period each year, the area's representative in the New Brunswick legislative assembly maintains that an announcement will be made soon...

Lyme disease is moving up the coast of Maine, as coastal areas see an increase in development and landscaped habitat. Incidents in Washington County were recorded for the first time in 2008 with three cases, a number far lower than counties such as York...

About 40 people attended the annual Perry town meeting and voted on 64 articles in just over two hours. Residents engaged in a lengthy discussion on whether to allow the town to construct a 30'x 50' addition to the existing municipal building on Route 1.

At a special town meeting on August 10, Pembroke voters adopted an ordinance to regulate large-scale water extraction and approved the school budget for 2009-2010.

A plan to kill sea lice on farm-raised salmon with a pesticide that subsequently will be flushed into several bays in southwest New Brunswick is generating concern among fishermen and environmentalists.