The man accused of first-degree murder in the death of 16-year-old Hilary Bonnell appeared in Miramichi provincial court Monday via videolink from the Moncton Detention Centre on unrelated charges of sexual assault.

A New Brunswick woman who told police she'd been abducted at gunpoint and forced to drive a man to Toronto has received a conditional discharge after pleading guilty to mischief.

Edmundston has lifted a boil water order to residents in the Saint-Jacques and Verret areas of the northwestern New Brunswick city.