Category: Campbellton

So far this year, municipalities across New Brunswick made more than 200 million dollars in requests this year for a road reconstruction fund that only has 25 million to dole out.

The dollars are paid out by the provincial taxpayers to go towards provincially-designated highways.

Those are the main roads that lead into communities across New Brunswick and cross into municipal boundaries in the process.

Villages such as Norton and Alma, towns like Minto and St. Andrews, and cities such as Miramichi and Fredericton have all been beneficiaries of this program so far this year.

Environment Canada sent a meteorologist to the Acadian Peninsula to see if tornados may have formed during a recent “severe” thunderstorm this past Thursday.

NB Power said nearly 7,000 customers in the Acadian Peninsula were without power following the storm, which damaged power poles and properties.

In areas where power poles were snapped in half, Environment Canada is estimating gusts of 195 km/h and in areas where shingles were ripped off buildings winds were around 165 km/h.