New Brunswick News

MONCTON, N.B. — Major Drilling Group International Inc. has signed a deal to buy South American specialty drilling contractor Explomin Perforaciones in a deal worth up to US$85 million.

Police in New Brunswick say an inmate who escaped from a jail in Saint John by squeezing through a fence is back in custody. The Saint John Police Force issued an update at 8 p.m. saying 44-year-old Darel Dalgleish had been arrested without incident.

FREDERICTON — New Brunswick's newly elected Liberal government officially took power on Sunday at a ceremony that saw the party's leader become the first woman to serve as premier in the province's history.

FREDERICTON — Over four days on the water in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, Heather Bowlby and her team from Fisheries and Oceans Canada tagged 15 great white sharks.

FREDERICTON — New Brunswick's new Liberal cabinet will be composed of 19 ministers, including premier-designate Susan Holt, who led her party to a convincing majority victory over the Progressive Conservatives in last month's election.

Maureen Anderson lost both her sons to their overseas service in the Canadian Army, even if they died years later and a continent away from the hot dust and violence of the Afghanistan war.

ST. JOHN, N.B. — Matteo Mann scored the game-winning goal 1:51 into overtime and the Saint John Sea Dogs edged the Moncton Wildcats 3-2 on Thursday in Quebec Maritimes Junior Hockey League action.

FREDERICTON — A former provincial cabinet minister has been named as interim leader of the Progressive Conservatives in New Brunswick.

Joshua Fleming earned a shutout as the Acadie-Bathurst Titans defeated the Cape Breton Eagles 2-0. David-Alexandre Coulombe scored the game-winning goal, while Colby Huggan added an empty-netter.

FREDERICTON — Susan Holt, New Brunswick's premier-designate, met with her newly elected Liberal team on Thursday and announced their top priorities for the coming weeks.