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It looks like we will be starting off the new year with higher fuel prices, according to an industry source. Prices for regular self-serve gasoline and diesel are expected to rise by around two cents on Thursday night. Currently, New Brunswickers are paying a maximum of $1.59 per litre for regular self-serve, $1.79 per...

One person has been arrested for murder after a Christmas Eve death in Saint John. Police announced Thursday that a 26-year-old man was taken into custody earlier in the day. He remains behind bars and is scheduled to appear in court on Friday to face charges. Police received a report of a severely injured woman laying...

RCMP are now looking for security, dash or doorbell camera footage after a vehicle plunged into Halls Creek in Moncton this week. A 33-year-old man and a 24-year-old man died after a car left the road and was reported in the water on Tuesday morning. It was found submerged next to Church Street and Clement-Cormier Stre...

New Brunswick's three highest-paid doctors each received more than $2 million during the last fiscal year. The province has released its unaudited list of payments made to medical practitioners in 2023-24. Dieppe ophthalmologist Dr. Julien Saad topped the list. He was paid between $2.05 million and $2.09 million. Saad ...

Horizon's Saint John Regional Hospital kicked off the new year with a special delivery. They celebrated the arrival of the first baby of 2025, Aliana, born on January 1 at 12:14 a.m. Horizon extends their warm wishes to Aliana and her family, wishing them a joyous New Year.

New Brunswick's new premier says many residents are feeling cynical and frustrated with politics and government. Susan Holt said that is why transparency has been one of her key focuses since coming into office in November. In a year-end interview with our newsroom, Holt said she knows that government needs to rebuild ...

Police officers in New Brunswick now have more flexibility when it comes to dealing with impaired drivers. Amendments to the Motor Vehicle Act introduced by the previous government take effect on Wednesday. Drivers with a blood alcohol content (BAC) of 0.05 or greater, or who perform poorly on a standard field sobriety...

It has felt more like spring rather than the first few days of winter in New Brunswick. Several communities set temperature records on Monday, some nearly a century old. Bas-Caraquet reached a high of 6.3°C, breaking the old record of 4.2°C set in 2003. The high of 3.5°C in Charlo broke the old record of 3....

If you have a newborn named Noah or Charlotte, you are far from alone. They were the top names for babies born in New Brunswick in 2024. Other popular names were Liam, Oliver, Henry, Jack, Olivia, Amelia, Elizabeth and Ellie. Liam and Olivia tied for the most popular baby names in 2023. A total of 5,822 births were reg...

It has been a busy couple of months for the interim leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of New Brunswick. Glen Savoie was tasked with leading the party after Blaine Higgs resigned following his election defeat in October. The party went from having a majority government with 25 seats to being the official oppo...

Sad news out of the community of Salisbury. Capt. Tim Dryden, a 27-year veteran of the town's volunteer fire and rescue department, has passed away. "Captain Tim Dryden served had a great passion for the work he did. Tim joined the department right before he finished high school and never looked back. He was a ver...

Another call for the Prime Minister to resign, this time from the Atlantic Liberal Caucus. The Caucus Chair has sent a letter to Justin Trudeau stating the need for him to step down. "Prime Minister, your leadership throughout the past nine years will absolutely leave a positive and consequential legacy on Canada....

NB Power's former president and CEO continued to be the highest-paid civil servant in 2023, despite being fired a year earlier. Keith Cronkhite earned between $575,000 and $599,999, according to unaudited employee salaries released by the province. Cronkhite was fired in July 2022 and later replaced by Lori Clark, who ...

New Brunswick's premier says her first few weeks in office have been nothing short of incredible. Susan Holt was sworn in as New Brunswick's first female premier during a ceremony on Nov. 2. It came just weeks after her Liberal Party won a 31-seat majority government in the Oct. 21 election. In a year-end interview wit...

The mayor of a southeastern New Brunswick community has tendered his resignation, effective Dec. 31. Fundy Albert Mayor Bob Rochon made the announcement in a letter posted to social media. "Over the past two years, I have sought to serve our community with dedication, honesty and integrity," Rochon wrote in h...

RCMP in Saint-Léonard RCMP are looking into reports of damaged mailboxes and theft of mail in Grand Falls. Police say two separate incidents occurred at the community mailboxes on Price Road. The first occurred on December 20th sometime between 5 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. The second happened sometime around Christmas ...

One person had died following a motor vehicle collision in Upper Sackville. RCMP from Sackville, Sackville Fire Department, Department of Transportation and Infrastructure, Department of Justice and Public Safety and Ambulance New Brunswick responded to the incident at around 11:30 a.m. Friday on Route 940. Two vehicle...

A man who supported fair labour and spent much of his life as a union activist in New Brunswick has passed away. Daniel Légère most recently served as the President of the New Brunswick Federation of Labour for the past five years. Before that, he advocated as the President of CUPE New Brunswick. Premier ...

Four New Brunswick communities made the list in a recent survey ranking the country's most livable cities. The annual Globe and Mail survey looked at 448 Canadian cities. It analyzed 50 variables in ten categories including economy, housing, healthcare, education and climate. On the top 100 list, Fredericton placed 33r...

It was a successful journey for a Holiday Train that made numerous stops during a four-week trip across Canada and the United States. Canadian Pacific Kansas City says the program raised over $1.75 million and collected more than 130,000 pounds of food for local food banks. It made its first stop in Atlantic Canada in ...