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A 68-year-old man has been charged with arson in the fire that destroyed a historic church on the Acadian Peninsula this week. The fire at Saint-Simon Catholic Church started early Monday morning, and Caraquet fire Chief Luc Dugas said it...
“Unexpected issues” have delayed the reopening of a portion of the main stretch through the Beresford section of Belle-Baie, according to the municipality’s mayor. Rue Principale between Chaleur and Morrison streets over Haché Brooke in...
New Brunswick has been picked as the location for a massive explosives plant. It’s a project slated to now be built near Belledune with a first phase valued at $600 million, taking 500 workers to build and needing 250 employees once in...
“And when I say a campus, it will expand.” Gagnon said the factory would manufacture explosives, but also potentially propellants and other derivatives. It also wouldn’t have a purely military purpose, but also supply the mining and...
Police say a missing Acadian Peninsula man who had not been seen for two months has been found dead. The Chaleur RCMP issued a news release on Aug. 24 saying the man, identified earlier this summer as 89-year-old Jesus Garcia De Palau of...