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News Headlines from Edmundston, New Brunswick

• Graham leading province to financial ruin - Alward

  Platform planks promising new jobs, fairer taxes and a less expensive, fiscally responsible government are the Tory staples that party leader David Alward says will knock the Liberals out of power.

• Voting stations arrive on N.B. campuses

  Elections New Brunswick is setting up satellite voting stations on university campuses across the province to increase the number of young voters.

• Former Riverview priest pens book about life journey

  A cruise ship seems an unlikely place for a spiritual epiphany, but as Jeff Doucette set sail from England for Europe and Russia he experienced a moment of truth.

• Gloves come off early as Alward takes aim at Grits

  Progressive Conservative Leader David Alward has opened his quest to form New Brunswick's government with a scathing attack of Liberal Leader Shawn Graham's record.

• Paulette C. Nieman

  Paulette C. Nieman of Redlands was born in Edmundston, New Brunswick, Canada, on June 5, 1936.

• Provincial Journal

  A stolen vehicle from Tracadie-Sheila has been destroyed by fire. Last week, RCMP officers from Tracadie-Sheila were called to a car fire at the old military firing range at the Tracadie-Sheila town limits.

• Former N.B. minister issues call for clearer fishing rules

  A former New Brunswick natural resources minister says the recent seizure of salmon from First Nation anglers on the Kedgwick River highlights the need for federal and provincial governments to sit down and clarify regulations for Crown-owned waters to protect salmon stocks.

• 'Big problems' on the river

  Tony Bernard has been fishing salmon on the Kedgwick River's north branch for a half-dozen summers, taking just enough fish to feed his family for the winter in this small aboriginal community alongside Edmundston.

• Anson man to undergo psychiatric evaluation in Pa. kidnap, rape case

  BANGOR, Maine a ' The Anson man accused of kidnapping and raping a woman at gunpoint in Pennsylvania earlier this month will undergo a psychiatric evaluation at a New Brunswick facility, an official with Edmundston Provincial Court said Monday.

• U.S. man faces charges in Canada

  A 35-year-old American man wanted in connection with a violent sexual assault in Pennsylvania now faces additional charges in Canada.