Author Archives: Brad Perry

Several temperature records have been set across New Brunswick amid this week's heat wave. Bathurst reached a high of 34.3C on Wednesday, breaking the old record of 32.5C set in 1998. The high of 33.7...

Patients in four New Brunswick hospitals who are waiting for a nursing home bed will be given priority over the next 30 days. The social development minister on Wednesday approved a request by Horizon...

A measles outbreak declared in the Sussex region continues to grow. Public Health reported two more confirmed cases of the virus on Wednesday. That brings the total number of cases to five, with offic...

A mixed-use development with nearly 1,300 residential units is being proposed in the town of Rothesay. It would be located on nearly 23 hectares of land bounded by Campbell, Millennium and Wedgewood d...

Horizon Health is dealing with a record number of patients waiting in the hospital for long-term care placement. That has prompted the health authority to request critical state admission prioritizati...

Inflation appears to be heating up again, according to new numbers from Statistics Canada. The Consumer Price Index rose 1.9 per cent on a year-over-year basis in June, up from 1.7 per cent in May. Of...

An independent police watchdog is investigating after a man sustained a "serious injury" in Sussex. Mounties were called to a disturbance at a residential home on the evening of June 26, according to ...

A third case of measles has been confirmed in the Sussex region, one day after an outbreak was declared by Public Health. The additional case was reported on Tuesday through a dashboard created on Pub...

It is described as the largest cannabis seizure on record in a decade, and it happened in Saint John. Canada Border Services Agency officers seized more than 6,700 kilograms of suspected cannabis at P...

NB Power's first new generation facility in more than two decades will be built in southeastern New Brunswick. PROENERGY has been selected to build and operate the facility in the Midgic and Centre Vi...