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News Headlines from Edmundston, New Brunswick

• Biogas research project planned for Grand Falls

  The New Brunswick Innovation Foundation has announced a $400,000 investment in a biogas research project being conducted at Le College communautaire du Nouveau-Brunswick Edmundston's bio-energy and bio-products applied research lab in Grand Falls.

• Fraser Papers workers in Edmunston, N.B., ratify labour contract

  Fraser Paper employees in Edmunston, N.B., have voted in favour of changes to their pension plan in a bid to help the company exit from creditor protection.

• The many lives of Hermenegilde Chiasson

  For more than 30 years, poet, playwright, artist, editor and former lieutenant-governor Hermngilde Chiasson has been quietly making fine art with fabric.

• Determination abounds at sled dog races

  Andr Longchamps, right, of Pont-Rouge, Que., and handler Guellaume Breton assist Longchamps' wife, Amelie Aubut, adjust a steering cable on the sled that she plans to use in today's Can-Am 60-mile race.

• Sale of Fraser Papers' specialty papers business clears all hurdles

  Fraser Papers Inc., the Canadian Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada, the Government of New Brunswick, and other stakeholders, have agreed to the broad terms under which Fraser Papers will proceed to close the sale of its specialty papers business to a company sponsored by the secured creditors of Fraser Papers .

• Fraser Papers defeats obstacles in restructuring

  Fraser Papers Inc. overcame all roadblocks preventing its emergence from bankruptcy protection Wednesday.

• Trauma changes improve service speed

  New Brunswick hospitals are about to begin using a whole new system when it comes to calling in specialists on emergency cases.

• Let's learn to express joy like little Cassandra does

  What a poignant and wonderful photograph of Elvis and Cassandra Price! Kudos to Gleaner photographer Stephen MacGillivray for this picture.

• Fraser in talks with Canadian union

  Fraser Papers executives and one of Canada's biggest unions will meet today in Toronto to discuss freeing Fraser from bankruptcy protection by allowing the company to escape about $185 million in pension obligations.

• South benefited more from provincial spending: report

  Southern New Brunswick has received more provincial government funding than the northern part of the province over a fifteen-year period, a new report says.