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Saint John property tax bills coming soon, likely with more pain for homeowners and landlords
New Brunswick property owners will be getting 2025 tax bills mailed to them beginning in two weeks but figures are already showing that for Saint John, those bills will bring another wave of uneven tax increases that will wash over owners of houses and apartment buildings, while barely splashing many business and government properties.
Thousands of N.B. homeowners have successfully challenged their property assessments. Here's how
House prices in New Brunswick have escalated rapidly in the last four years, more than doubling in many communities. That has been pushing up property assessments and property taxes that are based on those assessments.
Young homebuyers shocked New Brunswick property tax protections don't apply to them
Cathy Foote and her husband have been married for nearly four years and in 2022, with the help of family and their own savings, they gathered enough money to buy a first home in Saint John.
$1 billion in federal funding to N.B. at risk in looming equalization fight
New Brunswick's share of the federal funding pool used to supplement tax revenues of Canada's "have-not" provinces will exceed $3 billion in the coming year, and some premier say that's too much.
Debt assigned to N.B. Power customers for utility financial misfortunes grows
A $54.1-million surcharge being paid by N.B. Power customers this year to reimburse the utility for past financial misfortunes has made no progress retiring a $236.1-million debt the payments were originally meant to deal with.
Justin Breau killers handed maximum prison sentences
The two men most recently convicted of murdering Justin Breau in Saint John in 2022 were each sentenced Wednesday to life in prison with no eligibility for parole for 25 years.
Lepreau nuclear plant back in service after second-longest outage in 40 years
What began as a 98-day planned and budgeted maintenance shutdown on April 6 ballooned into a 248-day outage, after an unexpected problem surfaced in the station's generator.
Property tax burden in Saint John will shift further onto homeowners in 2025
New Brunswick property assessments for 2025 will not be issued for several weeks but in Saint John Terry Nadeau doesn't need to see the latest Service New Brunswick valuation of his house to know his 2025 property tax bill will jump — by $312.
Don't keep the change: N.B. Power preparing to refund all customers, including some owed pennies
New calculations by N.B. Power show rebates are likely owed to hundreds of thousands of its customers for amounts they were charged for electricity between April and November.
New Brunswick consumers face new price shock, this time for auto insurance
Several major automobile insurance companies are seeking approval to raise premiums they charge in New Brunswick by 10 per cent or more, blaming rising vehicle repair costs, car thefts, falling profits and other troubles for the steep requests.