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New Brunswick Closes 2025 With Health-Care Gains, Growth Moves and Storm Response

Physicians say 2025 contracts alongside capital outlays set up primary care improvements in 2026.

Softly drumming, Jeanette Nickerson and Jamie Jermey lead the Walk for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women at the Black Loyalist Heritage Centre in Birchtown on May 5, 2025. Kathy Johnson
The new $60-million Riverview Recreation Complex is now under construction off Bridgedale Boulevard.
The new $60-million Riverview Recreation Complex is now under construction off Bridgedale Boulevard, next to the Mill Creek Nature Park and near a growing residential subdivision around Runnymeade Road. It is expected to be completed by fall of 2026. It will have a 10-lane swimming pool, indoor walking track and skatepark.
Patricia Bernard, the chief of Madawaska First Nation, is immensely proud of her mother, Margret Bernard, who became the community's first female chief 40 years ago.

Overview

  • The New Brunswick Medical Society hailed new agreements for physicians, nurses and other professionals as key to recruitment and retention, and pressed for sustained operational funding to match recent capital spending.
  • A Fredericton city bus slid on ice and struck a utility pole on Hilton Road, sending the driver and six passengers to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries as police and fire handled roughly 10 other weather-related collisions.
  • Fredericton Transit paused service Monday evening with one late additional run to get riders home, NB Power briefly cut electricity for a safe vehicle recovery, and regular service resumed Tuesday morning.
  • Riverview’s mayor outlined 2026 growth plans that preserve a small-town feel, including a municipal plan review and zoning changes allowing secondary suites on qualifying lots, alongside a $60‑million recreation complex under construction and due by fall 2026.
  • Community notes included Bathurst’s New Year’s Day polar dip at Youghall Beach with EMS informed, and a new Moncton shop, You’re Home Gifts & Decor, opening to showcase local and Canadian artisans.