N.B. hospital patients will jump the line for nursing homes | N.B. Power, U.S. company pick Tantramar site for natural gas plant | Main Street project fixes decades-old errors in key Saint John route
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Good evening, these are your top stories for Wednesday, July 16, 2025.
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N.B. hospital patients will jump the line for nursing homes; wide shot of the saint john regional hospital showing the emergency room entrance

N.B. hospital patients will jump the line for nursing homes

July 16 , 2025 at 06:41:19 p.m. ADT • :

Social Development has agreed to put hospital patients ahead of the line for vacant nursing home beds for the next 30 days. The CEO of Horizon sees no other option to relieve the stress on some surgical units and emergency rooms.

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N.B. Power, U.S. company pick Tantramar site for natural gas plant; Brotman Generating Station in Rosharon, Texas, has similar components and layout as the proposed project that ProEnergy wants to build in Tantramar\.

N.B. Power, U.S. company pick Tantramar site for natural gas plant

July 16 , 2025 at 06:00:00 a.m. ADT • :

N.B. Power has changed the location of a proposed natural gas plant it wants to see built in southeast New Brunswick, opting for a remote location in the Tantramar area instead of a site in Scoudouc.

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Main Street project fixes decades-old errors in key Saint John route; Saint John traffic engineer Jill DeMerchant says that the constructions goals are to make the street and viaduct more accessible to users of all modes of transportation\.

Main Street project fixes decades-old errors in key Saint John route

July 16 , 2025 at 06:00:00 a.m. ADT • :

An upgrade of Main Street and the viaduct in Saint John will give the city its first protected bike lane while correcting problems that date back to the days of urban renewal in the 1960s.

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Pre-trial hearings begin for man accused of Dieppe double murder; Janson Bryan Baker, 29, faces two charges of first-degree murder and is scheduled to stand trial early in 2026\.

Pre-trial hearings begin for man accused of Dieppe double murder

July 15 , 2025 at 02:56:16 p.m. ADT • :

A series of pre-trial hearings began in court Tuesday for a man accused of killing a Dieppe couple in 2019.

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Meal service dropped for seniors in rural areas around Moncton; Joan McMackin lives in Petitcodiac, a 44-kilometre drive southwest of Moncton and the community where some of her children still live\. From left to right, are Jeannine Taylor, Doreen Crandall, Dale McMackin, Joan McMackin, Brent McMackin, Maureen Hawker\.

Meal service dropped for seniors in rural areas around Moncton

July 16 , 2025 at 12:00:00 p.m. ADT • :

Seniors living in rural communities surrounding the greater Moncton area relied on a meal-delivery service for two years. Now the federal funding has run out.

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As another clinic closes, doctors say after-hours care is set up to fail; A sign on the door to the clinic, located in Atlantic Superstore on Main Street, announces its permanent closure\.  

July 14 , 2025 at 05:30:59 p.m. ADT • :

As another clinic closes, doctors say after-hours care is set up to fail

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Fredericton psychiatrist risks losing licence after not contesting misconduct allegations; Fredericton psychiatrist Dr\. Manoj Bhargava has been suspended by the College of Physicians and Surgeons\.  

July 15 , 2025 at 04:43:13 p.m. ADT • :

Fredericton psychiatrist risks losing licence after not contesting misconduct allegations

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Too many resignations leave Sunbury-York South council on pause until fall; Sunbury-York South councillors Matthew Standish and Tegan Noble recently resigned, which leaves council without enough members until the mayor returns from a suspension in September\.  

July 15 , 2025 at 03:56:50 p.m. ADT • :

Too many resignations leave Sunbury-York South council on pause until fall

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Police officer's computer ends up in criminal's hands, sensitive information accessed; A Fredericton Police Force officer won't face charges after an investigation into how police records on his computer ended up in the hands of a person arrested in a drug case\.  

July 14 , 2025 at 05:00:15 p.m. ADT • :

Police officer's computer ends up in criminal's hands, sensitive information accessed

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Patients ask Holt to intervene in N.B.'s mystery brain illness investigation; The patient representatives want the raw clinical data for all 222 patients to be sent to the Public Health Agency of Canada for scientific review\.  

July 15 , 2025 at 12:01:00 p.m. ADT • :

Patients ask Holt to intervene in N.B.'s mystery brain illness investigation

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