Late Fall Storm Creating Problems

A snowfall warning remains in effect for St Stephen and parts of Charlotte County through this afternoon. The Environment Canada weather service says a total of 15-cms will accumulate in western sections of Charlotte County before the storm passes overnight.

The storm forced the cancellation of schools in Charlotte County this morning and has left a number of residents without power.
At last report -- N-B Power indicated just under 1700 customers in the St Stephen area were being affected by outages -- crews are working to correct the problems.

Equipment Seized In Wake Of Mishap

A 25-year-old man is dead after a workplace mishap in Blacks Harbour yesterday.
Adam Wade Harris of Dominion Refuse Collectors was loading an industrial dumpster onto a truck when the dumpster swung sideways and struck him.
Worksafe NB has seized some equipment in an effort to determine the cause and if it was by the operator, a procedural or mechanical problem.

Family Of Missing Fishermen To Meet With Federal Minister

The family of missing fishermen Corey and Harold Cossaboom from Grand Manan will meet tomorrow with Federal Fisheries Minister Gail Shea in an attempt to get some answers as to why their boat sank off St. Martins.
Human remains were found after being washed ashore on Grand Manan.
Corey's sister Trish Greene is angry there's still no identification and the family also wants to know why their boat sank.
Gary Austin operated a diving company more than twenty years ago and investigated when a single engine plane went down in the Bay off St. Martins and did not break up which raises that as a possible cause -- the boat's dragging line may have become hooked on the wreckage causing it to abruptly stop and flip.
Austin says it should be marked as a hazard to give fishermen a heads up.

Alarm Sounded Over Fate Of Highway Upgrades

With the Alward Tories looking for savings anywhere they can find it, what will happen to a slew of upcoming Highway projects in the province.
Liberal Transportation Critic Rick Doucet says if they start changing the contracts and re-examining these projects there are penalties for cancelling contracts and reopening tenders.
Doucet says he has concerns about the possibility of the government cancelling these contracts where the safety of our roads are a top concern for most people in the province.

Moose Causes Chain Crackups In Lepreau

There were no serious injuries but three vehicles were involved in a collision with a moose shortly before 7:30 last night on route 790 at Lepreau.
One car struck the moose and managed to park by the side of the road a short distance away.
Another car tried to swerve around the dead moose but collided with a vehicle that was travelling the other way.
Two people were taken to hospital as a precaution.

Re-opening Of Bridge Lane Delayed - Again

Commuters expecting the Harbour Bridge drive in Saint John to be normal again need to wait a little longer.
The second westbound lane was supposed to re-open today but General Manager Ken Anthony says they will re-open the lane gradually over the course of a few weeks.
Anthony says the wet weather and snow has slowed progress on the final stages of work - but - the plan is to begin partial openings of the lane tomorrow.
The work should be completed and the lane fully open by within 9-days - the original schedule called for the construction to be completed by the end of October.

Federal Cash For Atlantic Canadian Ferry Services

Ferry services in the region being tossed a lifeline.
The services, which includes The Princess of Acadia and its Saint John to Digby run, receiving $51 million dollars from the Federal Government which will keep them afloat until March 31st of 2014.
Saint John MP Rodney Weston says the investment is a no-brainer because it's a key part of the transportation network in Atlantic Canada.
As to whether additional or regular investments would be made after 2014, Weston could not confirm it.