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Idle Lepreau nuclear plant threatens to post worst operational year in 4 decades
An end of the fiscal year breakdown at the Point Lepreau nuclear generating station is worsening what may turn out to the poorest operational year on record for the 42-year-old plant.
Property taxes in rural New Brunswick soar following amalgamations
Tammy Burrell got the 2025 property tax bill for her rural Salisbury home earlier this month and, as she feared, it had risen to $1,309 — 59 per cent more than she was paying three years ago.
N.B. Power disputes Irving claim industrial power rates are uncompetitive
J.D. Irving Ltd.'s claim that "uncompetitive" electricity prices charged by N.B. Power are exclusively responsible for forcing it to close a production line at its east side Saint John paper mill has pushed the provincial utility and its rates into the spotlight.
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.