News that VoltaGrid — one of the companies behind a controversial data centre project — is sponsoring the annual Moonlight Bazaar has generated controversy, with some people calling for a boycott of the annual street festival.   VoltaGrid's CEO has blamed "a significant portion" of the...

Anti-poverty activists rallied in cities across the country on Wednesday, calling for more government action against preventable deaths caused by extreme heat. ACORN Canada, a grassroots association of low- to moderate-income people, said that actions took place in 11 cities, including Moncton, Fredericton, and Halifax....

NB Power Vice President Brad Coady says that a 500 megawatt gas and diesel plant near Centre Village could go ahead without an Indigenous financial or equity partnership. “Yes, I believe it could," he told reporters Tuesday night at Tantramar Town Hall. "It ...

NB Power has announced a new program that will provide rebates to landlords who invest in energy efficiency upgrades in their residential properties. But housing rights advocates are warning that the program doesn't guarantee benefits to renters — and that landlords might even use it...

About 120 demonstrators waved to passing traffic on the TransCanada highway and on Sackville’s Main Street Thursday in the latest protest against NB Power’s plans for a 500 MW gas peaker plant near Centre Village. “The turnout today is amazing,” said Tantramar MLA Megan Mitton....

Indigenous people remain overrepresented in prisons and jails across the country, but an alternative court program in Elsipogtog aims to help people find a path to healing instead of incarceration.  To learn more about the Healing to Wellness Court, the NB Media Co-op sat down...

The soaring comeback of the bald eagle uplifts Ethan Augustine. The senior biologist with the North Shore Mi’kmaq Tribal Council says the banning of the pesticide DDT in New Brunswick in 1968 allowed the large bird of prey to thrive once again. “I remember being...

"The only thing I wish for now is to go out to study, before it's too late," says Baraa, a Palestinian student who remains trapped in the Gaza Strip, one year after he applied for a Canadian student visa. The NB Media Co-op has agreed...