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N.B. Power being forced to offer larger rate discounts to forestry mills
A New Brunswick government regulation written to protect pulp and paper mills from high electricity prices is forcing N.B. Power to increase rate subsidies it offers mills this year by 35 percent, despite a deterioration in the utility's own financial condition.
New Brunswick landlord drops security deposit claim after false photo accusation
Physicist Haoyu Qi and his wife moved from New Brunswick to Toronto over the winter for work but before Qi could retrieve a $2,000 security deposit he had paid on his Moncton apartment he was told his landlord was making a $500 claim on the money for cleaning and damage costs.
New Brunswick gasoline prices tumble to 3-year low
Fuel prices across most Canadian provinces — including New Brunswick — tumbled Tuesday, ending six years of federal carbon carbon charges on fossil fuels sold at retail.
No fooling: N.B. Power rate hike April 1 to cost average residential customer $244
N.B. Power's latest rate increase went into effect early Tuesday and will add about $244 in higher charges for residential customers this coming year, according to the New Brunswick Energy and Utilities Board.
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.