A local software development company will use a $247,000 injection from the federal government to develop products for the telecommunications industry.

Pulp company AV Group is hoping investments to improve energy efficiency and generate clean power will bolster the firm's economic outlook, says an executive with the company.

Regional communications provider Bell Aliant (TSX:BA.UN) saw its operating revenues fall significantly in the second quarter, but partially offset the dip by reducing costs.

A New Brunswick Securities Commission panel has approved a settlement agreement with three Fredericton-area respondents who referred investors to a Quebec company, Centre de Traitement d'information de credit.

There's been much discussion of the government's recent announcement that it is working with French nuclear company Areva on bringing a second nuclear reactor to the province.

Torstar Corp. says a recovery of advertising at its newspapers and websites helped to drive second-quarter growth, but it remains cautious about whether the positive trend will continue.

A bond ratings agency has cast doubt over the sustainability of the better-than-expected recovery in Canada's forest products industry.

The Toronto stock market posted a small loss Wednesday after worrisome economic data out of the U.S. and growing crude oil inventories put downward pressure on energy stocks.

Rogers launched its Chatr brand Wednesday for cellphone users who just want to talk and text, taking aim at new wireless players offering the same low-priced services.

Canadian pipeline giant Enbridge laboured Wednesday to contain an oil spill in the U.S. Midwest that brought it unwelcome attention in a world that for months followed the much larger BP leak in the Gulf of Mexico.

The provincial government is providing $800,000 in loans and payroll rebates in payroll rebates to Maritime Hydraulic Repair of Moncton to help the company expand into a new facility and create 40 new jobs.

A new study from the Canadian Bankers Association shows more Atlantic Canadians are conducting banking transactions online.

A local startup, Shift Energy Inc., received a boost of more than $285,000 to further develop and market energy management systems.

Nova Scotia farmers are only getting about 13 cents of every grocery dollar spent in the province, a decline of about four per cent over the past decade, a new report suggests.

A proposal to build a convention centre in Halifax has triggered a heated debate over the city's downtown core, which some say is in dire need of revitalization after years of neglect.

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LearnSphere, a Fredericton training and education broker, received a $1.7 million boost from the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency to start a commercialization program.

For generations, the Pond family has earned a living on the banks of the Miramichi River, running a lodge and fly-fishing outfit on the famed waterway.

The AV Group, which runs both the AV Nackawic mill and the AV Cell mill in Atholville, is getting $36.3 million from the $1-billion Pulp and Paper Green Transformation program.

New Brunswick still has reservations about the federal government's plans to establish a single national securities regulator, but Premier Shawn Graham says he hopes the province will take a leadership role for the Atlantic region in the proposed body.