(NB-Tanker-Rollover) (WATCH FOR DATING)
Eastbound lanes of a section of highway in southern New Brunswick remain closed after a tanker truck rolled over and spilled thousands of litres of fuel.
Mounties have said part of the highway between Hampton and Quispamsis was shut down after the Wednesday accident, and the Emergency Measures Organization was called in.
The agency on Sunday said on social media that a detour remains in place for eastbound traffic.
Officials have said contractors have been brought in to help with the cleanup, but there has not been any word on the extent of environmental damage. (The Canadian Press)
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(NB-Municipal-Elections)
Hundreds of candidates in New Brunswick have formally kicked off local election campaigns.
Elections New Brunswick says more than one-thousand people submitted nomination papers for almost six-hundred council positions.
Contests will be held for 52 mayoral positions, while 25 candidates were acclaimed.
Elections will only be required for five of the 12 rural district advisory committees, as 26 candidates were acclaimed. (The Canadian Press)
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(NS-Long-Term-Care-Strike) (WATCH FOR DATING)
More than two-thousand workers from 22 care homes in Nova Scotia are today expected to strike after contract negotiations reached an impasse.
The Canadian Union of Public Employees has submitted to the employer a notice to begin striking this morning at 7 a-m.
A spokesperson for the union says the long-term care workers feel they have been pushed to this job action as they fight for a living wage.
Nova Scotia’s minister of long-term care says the strike will cause challenges, but all impacted facilities have agreements in place to ensure essential care continues. (The Canadian Press)
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(NS-Youth-Charged)
Police in Nova Scotia say a young boy has been charged after staff at a business in New Glasgow reported being shown what appeared to be a real handgun.
Officers were called Sunday about a weapons complaint on George Street in the town roughly 160 kilometres northeast of Halifax.
Police say in a news release that they arrested the boy at a local restaurant and seized a replica handgun they described as a B-B gun.
The youth has been charged with possession of a prohibited weapon and two counts of possessing a weapon dangerous to the public. (The Canadian Press)
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(PEI-Travel-Nurses)
P-E-I’s health minister says the government plans to work with New Brunswick and Nova Scotia to reduce reliance on travel nurses.
Cory Deagle told reporters that no province can afford to pay astronomical prices for travel nurses and there needs to be a way to manage the cost.
The province spent about more than 28-million dollars on travel nurses in the 2024-25 fiscal year.
Deagle says it’s too early to say exactly how the model would work, but that all three Maritime provinces would need to agree to stop using private nursing agencies. (CBC News)
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(NL-NASA-Program)
An astrophysicist from Newfoundland has been accepted into the NASA Hubble Fellowship Program.
Anna O’Grady from is one of 24 accepted into the program that provides three years of support as they conduct independent research.
O’Grady is a post-doctoral fellow at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh and begins her fellowship in September.
She says her passion for the stars began at a young age when she was looking through an atlas of photos from the Hubble Space Telescope. (VOCM)
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(Atlantic Update by The Canadian Press)
