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Tenants move into new supported housing model
Two people moved into a north-side duplex on Monday, joining two others already in an another apartment, the first of four phases Fredericton Homeless Shelters is taking in partnership with Social Development to reimagine how it handles the homeless...
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Researcher says changes needed after her dog ate methadone on walk
After her dog Zelda somehow ingested methadone on a walk along Fredericton’s trails, a neuropsychologist is calling for systemic changes, and for governments to stop slapping bandages on growing social crises across Canada, fearing a total loss of...
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COON TO RESIGN AS N.B. GREEN LEADER
David Coon has announced he will step down as the leader of the Green Party of New Brunswick after 14 years at the helm. The politician said at a news conference in Fredericton on Thursday morning he would remain as leader until the party holds a...
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Watchdog takes aim at literacy failures in schools
New Brunswick students didn’t meet a single literacy assessment target from July 2022 to June 2025, and the seven school districts aren’t setting targets aligned with the provincial strategy, according to a new report from auditor general Paul...
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New mayor highlights spending, public safety as he takes office
Mayor Steve Hicks highlighted the need for responsible spending and public safety, both at the centre of his election campaign, as he and the rest of city council were sworn into office Monday night. In an address following the swearing-in ceremony,...
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SUPREME COURT REFUSES TO HEAR TITLE CLAIM APPEAL
The Supreme Court of Canada has refused to hear the Wolastoqey Nation’s appeal of a lower-court ruling that prevents them from getting back privately held land in their massive title claim for more than half of New Brunswick’s territory. As is...
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Dead man found in car was brother of Portapique victim
The brother of a man killed in the April 2020 Portapique shooting has died, the latest person connected to a victim of the crime to do. Clinton Ellison’s brother Corrie was killed by the gunman after he went to investigate the glow from a fire....
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COMPANY PROVIDED INCOMPLETE INFO ABOUT TOXIC SPILL: DOCUMENTS
The chrome plating company that leaked nearly 1,000 litres of chemicals along 14 kilometres of the Trans-Canada Highway and neighbouring Fredericton roads in March did not initially provide provincial officials full information about its contents,...
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Covered Bridge chips sues insurer, brokers after devastating fire
The Covered Bridge Potato Chip Co. is suing its insurer and two insurance brokers, alleging it was underinsured when fire destroyed its flagship potato chip plant in 2024. The fire on March 1, 2024, levelled the company’s Waterville production...
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Gas price regulations don’t work: PC critic
Should New Brunswick scrap its fuel price regulations? With the cost for regular gasoline inching close to $2 a litre, Don Monahan thinks so. The Progressive Conservative opposition finance critic says the regulations, 20 years old now, have done...
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Facing Parkinson’s, man turns diagnosis into provincial action
Now what do I do? It’s a question Mark Taylor faced when he was handed a life-changing diagnosis at the age of 44. His answer would come with time, some grit and a community rallying around him. Three years ago, Taylor was diagnosed with Parkinson’s...
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Base Gagetown preparing for $1-billion transformation
One of Canada’s largest military bases is preparing for what its commander describes as a oncein-decades transformation, with hundreds of construction projects, new military capabilities and thousands more personnel expected at Base Gagetown over the...
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Baby delivered in cold outside hospital doors
A baby was delivered on the sidewalk outside the Fredericton hospital last month because labour and birth services were unavailable at the Upper River Valley Hospital more than an hour away. Lauren and Nick Atkinson welcomed their daughter, Charlotte,...
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HICKS WINS FREDERICTON MAYORAL RACE
Longtime city councillor Steve Hicks is Fredericton’s next mayor, winning the seat by more than 1,600 votes in Monday’s municipal election. Hicks greeted a packed crowd at Rustico on Monday night, joined by his wife, Angela Hicks, who handily won the...
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Majority of responding Fredericton council candidates question NBEx expropriation
A large majority of Fredericton council candidates who answered a Brunswick News survey don’t believe the city should have acted to expropriate the NBEx lands for development. And included among those who think council made the right decision are all...
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‘I WAS TERRIFIED HE WASN’T GOING TO MAKE IT’: MOTHER
A western New Brunswick woman who gave birth at the side of the Trans-Canada Highway last month said she was worried about the risk after her local hospital once again announced birth services there were unavailable due to a staffing shortage. Mariah...
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RCMP officer found not guilty of assaulting woman during arrest
An RCMP corporal charged after a woman suffered serious facial injuries during an arrest near Woodstock was found not guilty Friday. Before a packed courtroom of more than 40 people, Justice Christa Bourque ruled prosecutors had not proven Cpl. Andrew...
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IRVING OIL CHARGED IN BIG DIESEL SPILL
Charges have been laid in the case of the underground fuel leak at the Murray’s Irving gas station in Woodstock, believed to be one of the worst such disasters in Canada. On Wednesday, the provincial government said it had laid two counts the day...
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BELOVED ELDER’S YOUNG MURDERER GETS MAXIMUM YOUTH SENTENCE
A man who was a youth when he murdered an Indigenous elder in 2024 has been sentenced to four years behind bars - the maximum for a young offender. But the offender - who cannot be named due to the Youth Criminal Justice Act - has only 14 months of...
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Community Kitchens closes dining hall amid security issues
The Fredericton Community Kitchens has shut down its dining room services, saying changes to security led to an increase in violent incidents. Marco Bonadie, interim executive director of the kitchen, said in an email that the kitchen’s dining area...
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Band teacher retiring to song written in his honour
After 16 years at Devon Middle School and 42 years in the local music scene, mostly as a church organist, David Steeves is done but he won’t leave quietly. He’ll retire to the sounds of a five-minute tune composed in his honour by longtime pal Doug...
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City looks to rewrite recreation agreements with rural communities
Fredericton and Oromocto don’t think the rural communities surrounding them are paying their fair share for use of recreation facilities, and they’re looking to redo the agreements. Staff at the two municipalities are working on a plan to propose to...
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Copper wire thefts disrupt telecom service across N.B. Province pours funding into wildfire readiness, expecting bad season
After more than 3,400 hectares of New Brunswick forest burned last year - the worst wildfire season in 50 years - the Holt government is upgrading its wildfire response as it anticipates this season could be worse. “We’ve had one of the driest winters...
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Privatizing vet services can’t be done so quickly: farmers
New Brunswick farmers are worried the province’s plan to replace provincial veterinarians with private ones is being done too quickly, putting their operations – and an untold number of animals - at risk. In the recent provincial budget, the Liberals...
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From N.B. to the moon and back
Call it New Brunswick’s small part in a big journey. As NASA sends four astronauts on a 10-day expedition around the moon, Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen is bringing on board seeds from Canadian trees. And those seeds have been carefully chosen...
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NO RELIEF FOR NEW BRUNSWICKERS FEELING PAIN AT THE PUMP: MINISTER
Tax relief won’t be offered to consumers suffering at the gas pumps because the provincial government itself is badly strapped, says the finance minister. Since the United States and Israel launched a war in Iran on Feb. 28, world fuel prices have...
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Secretive cuts a ‘threat’ to ‘farms, our animals, our food system,’ protest told
About 150 farmers, large animal owners, and their supporters braved a sloppy spring Tuesday to denounce the Holt government’s budget cut of provincial veterinary services, calling for the decision to be reversed and warning that rural New Brunswickers...
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Prime minister confirms $1 billion in spending for CFB Gagetown
Prime Minister Mark Carney has confirmed that his government is spending more than $1 billion on new infrastructure at CFB Gagetown, while revealing it includes the building of new ground-based air defence systems on the base. That’s as Carney added...
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Province launches search to develop 'billion-dollar' mining venture
The Holt government wants private sector offers to develop what it says is a billion-dollar mining venture that’s been abandoned in New Brunswick. That’s as one company says it already plans to submit an “aggressive” bid, while believing it has the...
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City considers five bus hubs to replace Kings Place
Fredericton could replace Kings Place with five transit hubs scattered across town within the next 15 years, consultants told the city’s mobility committee Thursday. Before the presentation, Dylan Gamble, the city’s engineering and operations...
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Farmers, opposition decry Liberals' veterinarian cuts
A farmers’ union and the two opposition parties are slamming the Liberals’ budget decision to stop providing government veterinarian services that were primarily used by farmers and owners of large animals, like horses. And they’ve been joined in that...
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Church ponders allowing foundation to take over deteriorating cathedral
The cost to save Christ Church cathedral has roughly doubled in the past four years and the church plans to explore options on how to save one of Fredericton’s bestknown landmarks, including possibly allowing a foundation to take over ownership. David...
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LIBERALS PLAN TO OVERSPEND BY $5 BILLION OVER MANDATE
The provincial government plans to rack up budget deficits totalling more than $5 billion over its four-year mandate, but insists the spending is needed to fix the health system and help ease the affordability crisis. Already facing a 2025/2026 fiscal...
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What would a Holt government civil service cut look like?
It’s the first option listed in the Holt government’s “Difficult Decisions” document aimed at taming its own massive $1.3-billion shortfall. Reducing the size of the civil service appears poised to be in Tuesday’s budget. It’s an option that Finance...
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