Savannah Awde

Reporter

Savannah Awde is a reporter with CBC New Brunswick. You can contact her with story ideas at savannah.awde@cbc.ca.

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As another clinic closes, doctors say after-hours care is set up to fail

As another Moncton clinic closes its doors, some believe that's likely to continue, and they point to the billing system and a resource shift toward primary-care clinics.

Lepreau nuclear plant outage to cost at least $140M

A 140-day planned shutdown starting this month at the Point Lepreau nuclear generating station will cost a minimum of $1 million a day, or at least $140 million in all, according to N.B. Power.

Province adds 22 affordable housing units in Miramichi

There are 13,000 individuals and families across New Brunswick awaiting space in public housing, according to David Hickey, the minister responsible for N.B. Housing.

N.B. opioid deaths involving fentanyl at all-time high, says Public Health

Harm reduction staff are witnessing the effects of an increasingly toxic illicit drug supply firsthand.

Without electricity in sweltering heat, a dozen Fredericton-area seniors play 'waiting game'

Some residents of the Airport Inn, who don't have anywhere else to go, are struggling as they enter a second week without power or water.

Nurses to be moved into new roles to address staffing gaps, province says

Premier Susan Holt says the shift is necessary to address long-standing issues with hospital waits and primary care access.

N.B. to seek exemption on federal immigration targets, minister says

New Brunswick minister says Ottawa's "one-size-fits-all formula" to reduce immigration won't work for the province, as it looks to attract more francophone Africans.

New Brunswick facing lowest GDP growth in Canada this year, Deloitte forecast warns

A new report projects that New Brunswick will lag behind the rest of Canada this year on gross domestic product growth in 2025.

Does the provincial government know where its children are?

The province is a parent to over 1,000 kids taken into care. But it doesn’t know whether those children are thriving or falling through the cracks.

Advocate demands proof of new child welfare spending from government

Child and youth watchdog says he will monitor whether promised new spending comes to fruition.