Robert Jones

The New Brunswick government has been touting a “much healthier economy” in the province in recent years but economists with four major Canadian banks are projecting New Brunswick will finish last among the three Maritime provinces in economic growth in 2024.

The cost of beer, wine, liquor and coolers are all set to jump on April 1, and although some of that involves an increase in federal excise taxes, most of the change comes from price increases being imposed by the province.

A new bottle return system developed by beverage companies and adopted by the New Brunswick government will pay consumers an estimated $18 million more in enhanced refunds on returned empties this year, but that will be financed in part by $11 million in hidden fees likely to be imposed on those same consumers.

Luxury-hotel stays in Europe and moving costs to Fredericton were among expenses New Brunswick taxpayers covered for Yennah Hurley

A number of European tour operators that government tourism officials met with in London and Paris last year to discuss promoting New Brunswick routinely mix up basic facts about the province in their ads and have been suggesting visits to defunct or shuttered attractions.

Rules in place to help protect New Brunswick tenants against rent increases that exceed the rate of inflation for the coming year have been weakened by the province.  

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.

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.

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.   

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.