Overview
- Following Monday's province-wide municipal vote, communities confirmed new mayors and councils in races that reshaped local leadership.
- Longtime councillor Steve Hicks won Fredericton's mayoralty with 10,239 votes to Jenica Atwin's 8,604 and will be sworn in on June 1 with a new council.
- Michel Soucy captured the Campbellton Regional Community mayor's chair with 67 percent of the vote, and Charlotte County elected Steven Backman in St. Stephen and Steve Neil in Saint Andrews, where the Ward 3 council race is rescheduled for a June 22 byelection.
- Federal Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne, visiting Tuesday, promoted a proposed $957.8 million, five‑year Small Craft Harbours package that includes planning to rebuild a marginal wharf at Cap‑Lumière and support for repairs, upgrades and dredging.
- During Tuesday's legislature debate, the Progressive Conservatives accused the government of targeting opposition ridings with funding cuts to 10 tourism and heritage sites, while ministers said the choices followed ownership and low‑visitation criteria and signaled talks with new councils on local solutions.