New Brunswick set a grim record for deaths in the days before and after Christmas 2021 as COVID-19 Delta and Omicron variants spread widely through the province, according to new estimates released...

New Brunswick is proposing that psychologists play a leading role in dealing with students who change their names to match their gender identity at school without parental permission, but those...

An infection control epidemiologist who publicly warned in July that New Brunswick was courting a COVID-19 outbreak by dropping public health restrictions too early doesn't accept the province's...

Blaine Higgs began his term as premier promising not to run his government from the top down like he accused his predecessor Brian Gallant of doing.

Efforts among the Maritime provinces to have more housing built quickly show Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia are having more success than New Brunswick, despite the New Brunswick government's...

Nova Scotia's Utilities and Review Board has ruled that 3.74 cents per litre will be added to gasoline prices and 4.17 cents to diesel prices to account for the cost of new federal clean fuel...

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

The number of New Brunswick high school students who identify their gender as non-binary has quadrupled since 2019, according to Department of Education surveys. 

New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs has made the poor financial condition of two CUPE pension plans that serve school board workers a central issue in the strike by public-sector unions, even though...

Maritimes leads Canada in population growth this past summer, with New Brunswick gaining more than 5,000 people.

New Brunswick Court of King's Bench Justice Kathryn Gregory, who sided with a landlord in a case involving the way provincial tenancy officers have been phasing-in large rent increases, owns an...

The New Brunswick government is blaming federal carbon pricing for deepening the financial troubles at N.B. Power but the utility itself has recently debunked that claim.

The average cost of rent in New Brunswick in October was nine per cent above where it was last October, according to figures released Tuesday by Statistics Canada.

A requirement unveiled by the New Brunswick government that households will have to show at least $3,000 in "working" income to receive a new $300 affordability benefit will disqualify tens of...

The New Brunswick government's focus on reducing its debt has been so successful it is on track to set a national fiscal record later this month. But the achievement is not without critics.

New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs misunderstood details of a federal program to rescue municipal transit systems after leaving discussions that created it and has been providing inaccurate informa...

National health and population academics point to high "excess mortality" numbers as an important riddle for provinces to solve in their understanding of the human cost of the pandemic. But New...

P.E.I. Premier Dennis King says he’s not in a race with the other provinces to open up to the rest of Canada.

As some provinces cope with dramatically escalating numbers of COVID-19 cases, New Brunswick continues to show a relative scarcity of infections - even after adjusting for the low level of testing...

Natural Resources Minister Mike Holland faced calls to resign, but it was Premier Blaine Higgs who was behind Holland's letter to a regulatory board supporting Irving Oil's bid for an expedited...

The New Brunswick government reset timber royalties as promised in August but not all charges to forest companies went up as the province has been suggesting, including to MLAs just last week. 

Figures show New Brunswick landlords have generated rent increases well above national averages this year despite the province's hard cap on rent hikes. That undermines one of the two key arguments...

Following record real estate prices and sales all over New Brunswick for last two years, frozen assessments on homes valued at $200,000 and above are almost unheard of in the province. There are none...

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...

New Brunswick recorded an estimated 423 deaths more than normal during an eight-week outbreak of the COVID-19 delta variant last fall, prompting questions about whether pandemic-related fatalities...

New Brunswick health officials retroactively removed 46 people from its COVID death totals last week even though records show 31 had the virus listed as a "cause of death" on their official death...

Service New Brunswick's recent decision to retract $3.5 million of a $3.7 million assessment increase it had given J.D. Irving Ltd.'s Saint John paper mill in 2021 for economic reasons is the third...