In a 36-year career in the RCMP spent mostly as a criminal investigator with 15 years heading the major crime unit in southeast New Brunswick Gerry Belliveau had never been overruled by a superior when it came to charging or not charging a suspect. Then came his final assignment.

The province is suing a poker player from Hanwell to make him forfeit more than $10,000 recovered by police after he turned away from an RCMP check stop in November 2015.

Water damage from a broken pipe in a new addition to the Georges-L.-Dumont Hospital in 2012 delayed a new PET/CT scanner from being put into use for several months.

The pendulum in prisons and jails has swung too far toward keeping prescription medications out of the hands of inmates, at the expense of those who need their prescriptions for painkillers or other medications, says a New Brunswick criminal defence lawyer.

New Brunswick's highest court has rejected a bid by the Crown to put a man from Tobique First Nation back in prison, after he was wasn't given his medication while incarcerated on a drug-trafficking charge.

The New Brunswick government is suing three companies for $1.2 million for the water damage caused to a multi-million PET/CT scan at Moncton's Georges-L.-Dumont Regional Hospital when the overhead plumbing system failed.

Court of Queen's Bench Justice Paulette Garnett says defamation laws will eventually tame "the Wild West" of the internet.