Another of the six arrested after police carried out simultaneous raids last week has been granted bail.
Former Saint John Bacchus Motorcycle club member, 39 year-old Ryan Wallace, is facing drug charges including possession and trafficking along with having two unlicensed rifles.
The other four people arrested include the local president of the biker club, 44 year-old Brian Schofield of Public Landing, who plead
guilty to possession for the purpose of trafficking. He was released on
house arrest and is scheduled to appear in court for sentencing on September 5
and to plead on other charges.
A local man who used to be a striker for the Saint John Bacchus Motorcycle Club has been released on bail.
39 year-old Blaine Beddow of Saint John is facing several drug charges, among them, production and trafficking.
Beddow was one of six people arrested last week as police carried out simulteanous raids in Kingston, Public Landing and Saint John, seizing drugs, weapons and ammunition. The raid followed a six-month long investigation involving four local police agencies called Operation J Turmoil.
Bail conditions for Beddow include having to stay in the province, having to give over his passport and not having any contact with certain people, including the members of the biker club. Beddow makes his next court appearance on September 5.
Drop Entertainment Group announcing all of Chris Brown's Canadian concert dates are cancelled including one in Saint John set for next month.
In a release, the company's owner Stephen Tobin says in light of Brown's recent personal and health-related issues all four shows have been cancelled.
Refunds will be available at the venue where tickets were purchased started Thursday.
You can find out the results of the antlerless deer draw today.
3,450 hunters had their names selected in the random draw for antlerless deer validation stickers. If your name was drawn, you can find out either on the department website or by mail and your sticker will arrive by September.
Hunters with a sticker can harvest either bucks or does in the zone designated on their tag, or an antlered deer in any area of the province open for hunting. Each hunter can only bag one deer.
For a link to more information go to country94.ca, click here
We may get a little more information on plans for the Energy East Pipeline as information sessions begin in the province tonight.
Trans Canada is hosting 7 public meeting beginning tonight in Edmundston continuing until next month when they end in Stanley.
Saint John's turn in Thursday between 4 and 8pm at the New Brunswick Community college on Grandview Avenue.
Phillip Canon of Trans Canada tells CHSJ News the info sessions are a kiosk format where people can come and go as they please.
He says if people have questions on land, safety or the environment they can go to that specific Trans Canada specialist and ask their questions.
Hampton gets a session of its own on September 10th at the St. Alphonsus parish hall.
Two of the people facing charges after a major bust involving current and former members of a biker club are due in court today.
Operation J Turmoil, a 6 month investigation, leading to the arrest of three men and three women in Saint John, Kingston and Public Landing and to the seizure of drugs, weapons, ammunition and more.
Former Bacchus motorcycle club members Ryan Wallace and Blaine Beddow are due before a judge today for bail hearings.
A man and woman in their 20's under arrest after a robbery with violence last night on Hawthorne Avenue.
City police tell CHSJ News it happened about 8pm last night and a man in his 50's was slightly hurt.
We are told it was not a random act. The man and woman are due before a judge this morning.
Two representatives from the city are spending a week on the West Coast to learn how the port can build a better relationship with the community.
Port President & CEO Jim Quinn and City Councillor Greg Norton are in Nanaimo, BC for the Association of Canadian Port Authorities annual general meeting.
Norton tells CHSJ News they'll be sharing Saint John's story and seeing what sort of community-building practices have worked for ports in bigger cities like Vancouver and Toronto. Norton says there are many ports operating across Canada that Saint John can learn from.
He says we're a host city to the port so its incumbent very strong partnerships, friendships and alliances are established so at the end of the day everyone is pushing in the same direction to move Saint John further ahead.
Quinn and Norton will be sitting on a panel called Community Partnerships.
Two million dollars worth of road construction work is about to begin in Rothesay.
The town's engineer Brett McLean tells CHSJ News the portions of two streets have to be reconstructed including part of French Village Road and Maiden Lane from the end of the public road to Rothesay Road.
There will be curb replacement and asphalt resurfacing on Gondola Point Road from Sprucewood Avenmue to Rothesay Corner as well as curb repair along part of Grove Avenue.
The town is aiming to have all this done by the latter part of November.
The province will be asked for legislation that would require vehicles to yield to City Transit buses as they try to make their way out of the laybys after picking up and letting off passengers.
Common Councillor Donna Reardon says there would be yield signs on the buses to let drivers know they have to give them the right of way.
Reardon says Halifax is one of the cities which already has this in place.
The pilot of an
ultralight plane has been killed in a fiery crash in south-central Nova
Scotia.
The Mounties say the lightweight aircraft burst into flame after
it hit the ground near Old Barss Corner Road by New Germany around 10
o'clock this morning. The 65 year-old man from Barss Corner was flying
alone when the plane went down.
RCMP, firefighters and emergency health
crews are on the scene. Police say the Transportation Safety Board has
been advised but they won't be sending anyone to the crash site.
Fire crews going a mile into the forest to fight a pick-up truck blaze.
They got a call around 10:30 this morning from a resident saying something shook their house. Because the fire was so far in the woods at the end of Baxter road, they weren't able to get the fire engine in—so they brought in ATVs with a portable pump to put out the fire.
Division Chief Eric Garland says the explosion heard could have possibly been from the vehicle's gas tank. There was nobody with the truck when firefighters arrived, and they haven't yet determined if the blaze is suspicious.
A home in the North End being broken into while the owner was away.
It happened in the Fort Howe area and some items from the residence were stolen. City Police believe it was a random act, and they're still looking for whoever is responsible.
Sergeant Caswell reminding people to make sure their home is secure—and if you see anything strange going on near your neighbour's house, don't hesitate to report it.
Not wearing a bike helmet in the valley can get you a fine, but police are letting first-time offenders pay it off with their time instead of their money.
Rothesay Regional Police have brought back their Bike Helmet Ticket Program—if you've been ticketed, you have the option of taking a one-hour information class on the safety and benefits of wearing a helmet instead of paying the $54.50 fine. The fee is waived once you finish the session.
Cyclists who don't wear a helmet will be fined, as well as parents who let their child bike without wearing one. The program ends on October 19 and the class is the following week at Rothesay High School.
Saint John is starting to get the message that Pride Week is not just for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community, it's for the entire community.
That's according to Pride Week Vice-President Amanda Hensey who tells CHSJ News in the last year alone they've noticed a positive shift in the city's attitude towards the celebration. Their theme this year is Pride In Community, and Hensey says the community is now giving back to them, and they love it.
The 11th annual Pride Parade is happening today with walkers meeting at 1 in the afternoon, and the parade itself is happening at 2 at the top of King Street. You don't have to be a member of the LGBT community to march in the parade, everyone is encouraged to take part.
Right after the parade is the Pride Community Festival in Queen Square, featuring barbeque, games, music and more. Click here for more information and for a list of events.
A car on fire was a little too close for comfort to a building, prompting an early morning evacuation.
Arriving fire crews saw a Ford Escape fully engulfed in flames, so they and City Police got everyone living at 39 Coronation Court to get out of the building as a precautionary measure. After the car was towed away, the residents were allowed back in the building.
The fire department got the call just before 1:30 in the morning. Crews were on the scene for about 40 minutes.
The Saint John Fire Department putting out a fire at 268 Milford Road.
They got the call just after 1:00 in the morning, and arriving crews saw heavy smoke pouring out of the top of the building. They were on the scene for about two hours.
The top of the building has major fire damage while the bottom has some water damage. Nobody was hurt.
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Three adults and six children are homeless after a fire in an apartment building in the North end.
The blaze at 37 MacLaren Boulevard was reported shortly before 6:00pm. Platoon Chief Barry Oickle of the city fire department says fire crews could see very heavy thick black smoke and fire coming out of the windows of the first floor apartment. The blaze was quickly knocked down.
The first-floor apartment was heavily damaged by smoke and fire while the apartment above it sustained minor smoke and fire damage—because of the damage, several other tenants are temporarily displaced while their apartments are cleaned and ventilated. No humans were hurt, however, four pets died in the fire.
The Canadian Red Cross is helping the victims, giving them a place to stay, food and clothing. A housing coordinator will be working with the nine people who are permanently homeless to find them alternative housing.
500 new jobs have been created for recent university graduates according to the Alward government.
The One Job Pledge gives eligible businesses a wage incentive when they hire people who have graduated from a post-secondary school within the past 4 years.
145 of the 524 jobs created are in the Fredericton area and pay at least $14 an hour, and the premier says the overall number is double what they had initially predicted.
Common Council is bound and determined to adopt a more businesslike approach to doing the city's business.
There are restrictions in place on how long you can speak in open session and Mayor Mel Norton keeps a tight rein on the flow of discussion.
The same sort of restrictions will be tried when councillors meet in Committee of the Whole away from the public eye.
West side Common Councillor Bill Farren is wary of having any more impediments to debate and is suggesting there's too much concern already with getting before the TV cameras.
Mayor Norton keeps reminding councillors their job is to set policy and not in the nitty gritty of how it gets done.
Another of the six arrested after police carried out simultaneous raids last week has been granted bail. 
