Another turbine is making the trek from the Port City to Point Lepreau.
The
large, approximately 130-tonne turbine rotor being transported to the
generating station tomorrow, weather permitting. The journey will take
about six hours and there will be police escorts for the duration of the
trip.
Drivers
being advising to avoid travelling on King Street West, Market Street
and Ludlow Street between 6 and 8am. You can expect delays on Route 1
between 7 and 10:30am on the east and westbound lanes from Ludlow Street
to Route 790 at Lepreau.
Last week, one of the rotors made the journey from Saint John to the station.
A
warning to new moms and dads, Playtex is recalling their Pacifier Holder
Clips because they can crack and a small part can break off, posing a
choking hazard to small kids.
The company getting almost a
hundred reports from consumers, including forty-three from here in
Canada, of the clip cracking or breaking. Health Canada getting one
report of the clip breaking where a small part broke off. No injuries
have been reported to either organization.
About 150,000 of these
were distributed in Canada. They were sold from July 2010 through
October 2013 here and in the U.S. They were sold in green with a monkey
figure, pink with a flower and blue with a tow truck.
Police and fire crews in Fredericton responding to reports of an explosion at an apartment building on the city's south-side.
When
they first arrived they found significant damage in a vacant apartment.
The Fredericton Police Force Explosive Disposal Unit did a secondary
search and secured the location. The Major Crime Team and the Forensic
Identification Team were also on the scene investigating.
No one was hurt, and the cause has initially been determined to be misuse of cleaning supplies.
A fire destroying a farmhouse in the rural community of Holmesville, leaving three people homeless.
Firefighters
from Bath and Florenceville-Bristol responding to the blaze at 6am on
Thursday to the home on Doherty Road. A retired couple along with the
woman's mother escaping the home unhurt.
No word yet on the cause of the fire.
A man and woman from Halifax are facing charges in connection with a coke bust at a traffic stop near Havelock.
RCMP
stopping a vehicle traveling on the TransCanada Highway near the
community seizing about five and a half pounds of cocaine along with
cash.
38-year-old
Lajuane Bruce and 26-year-old Debonnie Pearce appearing in Moncton
Provincial Court on Friday to be charged with trafficking cocaine,
possession for the purpose of trafficking cocaine and possession of
property obtained by crime.
Both will be back in court again on Monday.
