Nick Moore

1 week ago | ctvnews.ca | Nick Moore

New Brunswick municipalities are being called on to develop wildfire resiliency plans, focusing on the protection of critical infrastructure within high-risk areas. The Department of Natural Resources says it will be contacting individual communities within the next few days, encouraging them to apply for the “FireSmart”program which recently launched in the province.

1 week ago | ctvnews.ca | Nick Moore

New Brunswick Premier Susan Holt says an independent review of NB Power will begin later this month, as utility bills and debt continue to rise steeply in the province. “We have been listening to New Brunswickers for many months, and we have been hearing their worries, frustrations, and concerns about raising power bills,” said Holt, who formally announced the review Monday at a news conference in Fredericton.

1 week ago | ctvnews.ca | Nick Moore

A steep drop in cross-border traffic has reached a tipping point for Canadian duty-free shops. John Slipp, president of the Atlantic Travel Centre near Woodstock, N.B., says his business has been “like a ghost town” for the past several months. “In January we were down 15 per cent, in February we were down 25 per cent, and in March we were down 40 per cent,” says Slipp.

2 weeks ago | ctvnews.ca | Nick Moore

Kyle Mawar has turned his New Year’s resolution into something special around Grand Manan, N.B.The island fisherman completed his 100th straight day of plunging into cold water on Thursday evening, raising more than $35,000 for the local food bank. Mawar became a fan of swimming in cold open water while living in Australia, and wanted to kick off 2025 with a personal challenge at home. “But I really didn’t want to do it just for me,” says Mawar.

2 weeks ago | ctvnews.ca | Nick Moore

The New Brunswick government says the first of its 30 collaborative health-care clinics – a flagship promise from this past fall’s provincial election– will be in Fredericton. An expansion of the city’s northside community health clinic (inside Brookside Mall) is expected to be finished this summer, allowing room for 1,600 additional patients who currently don’t have a primary care provider.