New Brunswick News

SAINT JOHN, N.B. — New Brunswick’s electrical utility says its sole nuclear generating station will remain shut down until at least mid-November. The station at Point Lepreau, N.B.

FREDERICTON — Jackie McLean and her common-law partner Const. Robb Costello used to keep location-tracking services active on their phones so they could see where the other was.

FREDERICTON — The skies can be clear and the winds light when suddenly the power goes out in New Brunswick homes and businesses.

SHIPPAGAN, N.B. — Observers have spotted an endangered North Atlantic right whale entangled in fishing gear in the southern Gulf of St. Lawrence for the second time in seven days.

MISCOU, N.B. — A critically endangered North Atlantic right whale was spotted entangled in fishing gear on Saturday off the northeastern coast of New Brunswick.

GRAND FALLS, N.B. — New Brunswick's maple syrup industry is considering using an insecticide to kill off forest tent caterpillars that have chewed through a portion of the province's northwestern woodlands this summer.

FREDERICTON — The puffins of Machias Seal Island are feeling the heat. Scientists say there is a link between warming waters and changes in the birds' size and their beaks, as well as fluctuations in reproduction and the survival of chicks.

FREDERICTON — A case of the measles has been confirmed in New Brunswick.

OROMOCTO — Three soldiers have been confirmed killed in a car crash last weekend in New Brunswick.

FREDERICTON — Three people have died after a single vehicle crash in Sheffield, N.B. RCMP say members of the Oromocto detachment responded to the collision early Sunday morning and found three people dead in a car.