'Intense' fire in Bathurst under control, air quality warning lifted | Fredericton Marathon sees first-time winner, course record | Fundy Rose crossings to resume Monday after issue at Saint John terminal
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Good evening, these are your top stories for Sunday, May 12, 2024.
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'Intense' fire in Bathurst under control, air quality warning lifted; Denis Chamberlain took this pic of the Bathurst, N\.B\., fire around 9:15 p\.m\. AT Saturday\.

'Intense' fire in Bathurst under control, air quality warning lifted

May 12 , 2024 at 07:50:42 a.m. ADT • :

A fire on Ste. Anne Street in Bathurst that led to the evacuation of 100 nearby homes is under control but still active, the city said on Sunday.

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Fredericton Marathon sees first-time winner, course record; Sarah Mulcahy waves and smiles while finishing the Fredericton Marathon with a new course record\.

Fredericton Marathon sees first-time winner, course record

May 12 , 2024 at 05:11:05 p.m. ADT • :

Joe Stewart's first marathon attempt this weekend in Fredericton ended in first place, while Sarah Mulcahy set a women's course record.

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Fundy Rose crossings to resume Monday after issue at Saint John terminal; Fundy Rose departing from the ferry terminal on Saint John's lower west side to Digby, Nova Scotia\.

Fundy Rose crossings to resume Monday after issue at Saint John terminal

May 12 , 2024 at 04:08:36 p.m. ADT • :

The Digby-Saint John ferry service is set to resume on Monday after a mechanism failure at the dock in Saint John, N.B. The service has been suspended since Tuesday.

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Scoudouc River piers were part of first railway in New Brunswick; When you walk on trails made from old rail lines or come across abandoned railway bridge piers, historian and educator James Upham urges you to take a second to think about the days when trains carried people and stuff all over the province\.

Scoudouc River piers were part of first railway in New Brunswick

May 12 , 2024 at 06:00:00 a.m. ADT • :

Down a little path through the woods, off a recreational trail in Shediac, stone piers stretch across the Scoudouc River, an unofficial monument to New Brunswick's railway heyday.

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Fredericton woman with terminal ovarian cancer warns others of risks; Diana Austin, seen here in 2022 during her Swiss holiday in Zermatt\. Austin's ovarian cancer diagnosis was completely unknown to her at this time, as she continued on in life with no symptoms\.

Fredericton woman with terminal ovarian cancer warns others of risks

May 11 , 2024 at 06:00:00 a.m. ADT • :

The 'cancer that whispers' is what ovarian cancer is often called. That's because of the cancer's often subtle symptoms and no currently effective screening for women at routine or low risk of ovarian cancer, according to Fredericton's Dr. Christa Mullaly.

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Liberal candidate looks to bring dissatisfied longtime PCs on board; Newly acclaimed Liberal candidate John Herron is looking to bring dissatisfied long-time Progressive Conservatives on board\.  

May 11 , 2024 at 06:24:02 p.m. ADT • :

Liberal candidate looks to bring dissatisfied longtime PCs on board

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'Bigger than life': The almost unspeakable loss of 3 young people in Fredericton crash; Families and a high school community are in mourning after the deaths of three young people in a crash that happened in the early morning hours of Sunday, May 5\. Layla Rodgerson, Owen Fairweather, 17, and Kyler Hunter-Astle, 22, were killed on Douglas Avenue in Fredericton\.  

May 9 , 2024 at 03:47:46 p.m. ADT • :

'Bigger than life': The almost unspeakable loss of 3 young people in Fredericton crash

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Northern lights make rare appearance in New Brunswick; The northern lights just after 11 p\.m\. on Friday in Warwick Settlement, west of Miramichi\.  

May 11 , 2024 at 01:03:15 p.m. ADT • :

Northern lights make rare appearance in New Brunswick

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Youngest of 6 sentenced in 2022 Saint John homicide will be out in 3 weeks; Justin Breau, 37, is on trial in Saint John for second-degree murder in the 2019 death of Mark Shatford\.  

May 10 , 2024 at 02:20:04 p.m. ADT • :

Youngest of 6 sentenced in 2022 Saint John homicide will be out in 3 weeks

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2 men from Montreal arrested in drone drug-smuggling investigation at N.B. prison; The estimated penitentiary value of the items seized is in excess of \$250,000, according to police\.  

May 10 , 2024 at 02:48:06 p.m. ADT • :

2 men from Montreal arrested in drone drug-smuggling investigation at N.B. prison

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