Pam Novak is fostering a young crow with an interesting feather discolouration. The director of the Atlantic Wildlife Institute says the bird also proved to be a bit of an escape artist.

Woodstock band Morohubu just released their debut EP, Get Up and Dance. The band members are John Morris, Randy Ross, Steve Hubbard and Andrew Bull - so drummer Randy Ross says it's not difficult to guess where the band's name originated. But there's more of a story to it, nonetheless.

The Liberal government is increasing the amount of Crown land set aside for conservation, while also maintaining its timber allocations to industry. But Roberta Clowater, executive director of the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society's New Brunswick chapter, doesn't believe the forest eco-system can sustain the increased pressure on public land.

The province announced Tuesday, it's spending $1 million to help create a 10-bed hospice in Moncton, to support people and their families at the end of life. Pam Mansfield is a palliative care physician with the Moncton Hospital Horizon Health Network and an advocate with Hospice Greater Moncton. She says plans for the hospice have been 14 years in the making.

Magnetic Hill has long been one of the province's most visited tourist attractions. But how did it become the attraction we know today? Heather Lyons is the manager of reference services and public programs at the provincial archives, and has been looking into finding an answer.

Plastic and its impact on the environment has been in the news for some time. There's been a big focus on straws lately. But Lavalee Forbes is looking at plastic bags. The UNB student recently spent time in Morocco, where the production and use of plastic bags has been banned since 2016. Now she is petitioning New Brunswick to ban the bags here too.

Aaron and Shelley Shantz have been homesteading in Sainte-Marie-de-Kent for several years. But only now, they've decided to try farming at L'Hirondelle Farm full time.They're growing vegetables and raising chickens. But the most curious among their produce is not grown but foraged - fire weed - and they're making jelly out of it.

The International Tree Climbing Championship just wrapped up in Columbus, Ohio. Fredericton arborist Thomas Blight says it's less about speed than showing off your skills and being inventive. The organizers also film some of the climbers, in case they come up with a new technique that can be taught.

Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin by accident. Mold on one of his petri dishes appeared to be inhibiting bacterial growth - and that's how antibiotics were born. But Michael Edwards of Fredericton's Science East says that's far from the only example of accidental invention.

Eleven New Brunswickers are receiving the Order of New Brunswick this year, for their incredible contributions to the province. One of them is Walter Learning, the founding artistic director of Theatre New Brunswick. Long-time friend Ilkay Silk not only lived in his basement but also got her first job with him, and remained involved with TNB for the last 48 years.