Author Archives: Brad Perry
Gasoline, heating oil prices going up in N.B.
New Brunswick retailers have been given the go-ahead to charge more for gasoline. The provincial regulator has approved a 3.2-cent-per-litre increase to the maximum retail margin and delivery cost. Th...
Sep 16, 2025 engin akyurt / Unsplash
Watchdog highlights 'failures' of education budgeting
A New Brunswick watchdog is sounding the alarm over what he calls systemic failures in education budgeting. Advocate Kelly Lamrock released a scathing report on Monday over the education department's ...
Sep 15, 2025 New Brunswick Advocate Kelly Lamrock. Image: Brad Perry
School bus recall leads to some cancellations in Moncton
An electric bus recall means some cancelled bus runs in the Anglophone East School District. Bus runs 63 and 64 serving Evergreen Park, Northrop Frye, Maplehurst and Harrison Trimble are cancelled on ...
Sep 15, 2025 Austin Pacheco / Unsplash
Ottawa announces $13B for new housing agency
A new federal agency focused on building more affordable housing across the country. Prime Minister Mark Carney has announced an initial $13 billion for Build Canada Homes. "It will help fight homeles...
Sep 15, 2025 Prime Minister Mark Carney makes an announcement on Sept. 14, 2025. Image: CPAC video capture
'Challenging' Main Street work nearly complete
The end is near for a major construction project that has been impacting traffic in Moncton and Dieppe for several months. Work along Main Street near the Moncton-Dieppe city limit has been ongoing si...
Sep 15, 2025 Construction along Main Street in Moncton on Sept. 12, 2025. Image: Brad Perry
Trailers full of tires go up in smoke near Moncton
Two trailers full of tires went up in smoke near Moncton on Sunday morning, according to fire officials. Fire crews from five departments were called to Route 126 in Lutes Mountain just after 8:30 a.m...
Sep 14, 2025 Flames engulf two trailers full of tires at a business in Lutes Mountain, near Moncton, on Sept. 14, 2025. Image: Submitted/Wade Perry
WestJet flight makes emergency landing at Greater Moncton airport
No injuries have been reported after a WestJet flight made an emergency landing at the Greater Moncton Romo LeBlanc International Airport. The flight was en route from Calgary to Moncton on Sunday aft...
Sep 14, 2025 The Greater Moncton Roméo LeBlanc International Airport
Image: Submitted/Greater Moncton International Airport
N.B. now down to a handful of active wildfires
New Brunswick's wildfire situation has improved greatly over the past couple of weeks, according to a wildfire prevention officer. While a burn ban was issued Friday afternoon for parts of southern an...
Sep 12, 2025 Irishtown fire (August 12, 2025) Image: Courtesy of Department of Natural Resources New Brunswick
Man killed in eastern N.B. crash
A crash in eastern New Brunswick has left a 58-year-old man dead, according to Mounties. The collision happened on Saint-Ignace Road in Saint-Ignace around 9:15 p.m. on Wednesday. Investigators believ...
Sep 12, 2025 Image: Staff photo
Slight changes at N.B. fuel pumps
Some of us are paying less to fuel up heading into the weekend. The new maximum price for regular self-serve gasoline is $1.49 per litre. That is down just under one cent after the weekly setting by t...
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