New Brunswick News

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.

FREDERICTON — The pilot of an ultralight plane died after the aircraft crashed in a cornfield about 25 kilometres northwest of Fredericton. Ken Hodgson, fire chief of Keswick Valley Fire Department, says his team received a call at 11:33 a.m.

A 15-year-old driver of an all-terrain vehicle has died after a collision on a Moncton, N.B., highway. The RCMP say they responded to a report of a crash between a parked vehicle and an ATV on Highway 2 on Thursday afternoon.