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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.
N.B. Power wins long fight to raise rates 19 per cent over 2 years
N.B. Power has won approval to keep charging rates that it increased on customers by an average of 9.25 on April 1, and to repeat the increase next April, with only minor modifications.
J.D. Irving and N.B. Power tangle over electricity costs charged to big mills
The New Brunswick Energy and Utilities Board has been holding a "cost allocation" hearing to examine the way N.B. Power divides up $1.87 billion in expenses among its six customer groups to help calculate the electricity rates for each group.
A pledge not to tolerate deficit spending an early test for incoming Holt government
Liberal Leader Susan Holt will be sworn in as New Brunswick's 35th premier on Saturday and one of the first things she has promised to do is pay New Brunswick nurses an estimated $74.3 million in $10,000 retention bonuses.
N.B. nuclear plant's ongoing troubles an early threat to Holt government finances
More than 200 days after going offline for what was supposed to be a 100-day maintenance shutdown, the Point Lepreau nuclear generating station remains idle with no definite word on when it will be able to generate electricity again.
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Billion-dollar election platforms pose threat to 8-year streak of N.B. budget surpluses
Over the last month, New Brunswick Liberals, Progressive Conservatives and Greens have made commitments to voters for the next four years that total, by their own math, between $1.3 billion and $3.2 billion.
N.B. officials attended NCAA games courtesy of firm awarded public grant money
Civil servants with the New Brunswick Department of Tourism, Heritage and Culture attended basketball games in Arizona last spring, using tickets supplied by a company that has received grant money from the department, CBC News has learned.
New Brunswick election focusing attention on province's health-care woes
One week into New Brunswick's provincial election campaign the state of health care in the province has emerged as a central issue, with parties differing sharply on how serious problems in the system have become and whether spending more money is needed to fix them.
More than 40K N.B. homeowners face another wave of property tax increases in 2025
New Brunswick homeowners by the tens of thousands are facing property tax increases in 2025, and New Brunswick municipalities remain without powers promised to them two elections ago that could help slow or even stop the surge.
Proposed N.B. Power rate increase hits wall of opposition during final arguments
Multiple parties participating in N.B. Power's summer-long rate hearing joined forces during final arguments Monday to urge the New Brunswick Energy and Utilities Board to reject the Crown corporation's full request for an average 9.25 per cent increase in electricity prices in each of two straight years.