Since last summer, a group of veterans of the Canadian armed forces has been training at no charge at a Sherbrooke gym. This was made possible by one of their brothers in arms, Jean Nel, who put the project together with a little help from many friends.

Rock Steady Boxing, a program launched by an Indiana man who took up boxing after his diagnosis with Parkinson's disease at 40, is a hit in Sherbrooke, where a nursing professor is studying the impact of boxing workouts on people with the neurodegenerative disease.

Two federal cases related to the 2013 Lac-Mgantic rail disaster are now unlikely to proceed to the Federal Court of Canada, following an agreement between the Crown and the defence.

The Montreal, Maine and Atlantic railway's track maintenance crew had to go searching for the derailed train's locomotives on the night of explosions that killed 47 people, a Sherbrooke court heard Monday. They found them a kilometre away.

Taxi driver Andr Turcotte testified he raised environmental concerns with locomotive engineer Tom Harding when he arrived to pick him up from the spot where the tanker train was parked in Nantes, Que., on the eve of the Lac-Mgantic rail disaster.

The recent discovery of asbestos is forcing a school board in the Lower St.Lawrence to relocate the majority of its students.

Retired Transport Canada inspector Alain Richer testified he and a colleague discovered an 89-car MMA train parked at Vachon, Que., two days after the deadly derailment had been left secured with half the required number of handbrakes.