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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.
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.