Two out-of-control wildfires in central Newfoundland covered more than 200 square kilometres on Wednesday morning, and Environment Canada warned the flames could cover much of the island in smoke.
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Opposition Leader David Brazil says the provincial government is lagging on implementing road quality recommendations made by the auditor general three years ago. (Jeremy Eaton/CBC)
Interim PC Leader David Brazil wants the Newfoundland and Labrador government to get back on track with fixing the province s potholes, and stood in front of a freshly paved one Tuesday to make his point. It s a bit disheartening, said Brazil, who called a news conference by a pockmarked strip of road in Portugal Cove-St. Philip s, on the western outskirts of St. John s. At the end of the day, we all know everybody in Newfoundland and Labrador, particularly in the spring of the year, are facing turmoil with the road conditions.