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Vitalité seeks to renovate or replace Stella-Maris-de-Kent Hospital, submits plan to province
Vitalité Health Network is looking to either renovate or replace the Stella-Maris-de-Kent Hospital, which is nearly 60 years old.
'We are putting people in danger,' official says about Horizon's long-term care patients
A shortage of nursing home beds in New Brunswick is endangering the lives of hospital patients, warns the chair of Horizon Health Network's patient safety and quality improvement committee.
Nearly 10% of Vitalité surgery patients wait more than a year, 'multiple reasons' cited
Nearly 10 per cent of surgery patients within the Vitalité Health Network are waiting more than a year, data for the second quarter shows.
Vitalité adds 6 more family health teams, while aiming to integrate all patients within 2 years
Vitalité Health Network says access to primary health care continues to improve after it signed agreements with six additional local family health teams in the last quarter, ending in December.
Man charged with 1st-degree murder in Chipman double homicide
A 42-year-old man from Chipman has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of two people whose bodies were discovered in a burnt-out SUV in the community in November, RCMP say.
Pedestrian struck, killed in east Saint John
A 50-year-old man has died after being struck by a small SUV in east Saint John Wednesday night, say police.
Fine in death of Regina man at N.B. wind farm a 'slap in the face,' sister says
The sister of a Regina man killed at the construction site of a wind farm in southern New Brunswick is shocked by the "slap on the wrist" penalty imposed against one of the companies involved.
Saint John woman charged with 1st-degree murder to face preliminary inquiry in March
A Saint John woman charged with first-degree murder in connection with the discovery of human remains near Lorneville last summer will face a preliminary inquiry in March, while the cases of her two co-accused have been adjourned.
New Brunswick declares measles outbreak is over
A measles outbreak in New Brunswick that resulted in a cluster of cases in Ontario and helped push Canada's case count to the highest it's been in a decade, is over, the Department of Health announced Tuesday.
RCMP name Chipman homicide victims found in burnt SUV
New Brunswick RCMP have released the names of a man and woman, whose bodies were discovered in a burnt-out SUV in Chipman in November.