Newsroom – The Latest News Updates from Q96.1

Check out the news headlines and listen to the latest update for Thursday, March 28.

RCMP say the death of a woman whose body was found near the border in Carleton County New Brunswick was not the result of foul play.

The Maine House has given initial approval to a bill that would increase the state's minimum wage to $9 per hour by 2016.

Concerns over budget cuts due to the federal sequester have led to the cancellation of the Great State of Maine Air show in Brunswick.

A proposed open-pit mine between Stanley and Juniper, New Brunswick has some people concerned about pollution problems along the Nashwaak River.

84 people in Lewiston, Maine have been kicked off the city’s welfare rolls, most of them for fraud.

A Maine native is set to blast off into space today. Launch time for Astronaut Chris Cassidy is set for 4:43 p.m. Eastern Time from a launch pad in Kazakhstan.

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