Fredericton city council voted 7-4 in favour of a motion to rezone a 25-hectare plot of land in the Vanier Industrial Park to allow the construction of a new provincial correctional facility.
Videos showing Saint John jail guards tackling and punching an inmate were played in court this week after Fredericton provincial court Judge Cameron Gunn rejected an application by the Office of the Attorney General to have them kept from the public.
A McAdam-area man facing six charges after alleged acts of vigilantism in the southwestern New Brunswick village is to remain in custody until January, when a trial date will be set.
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