Today's top headlines from CBC New Brunswick

Today's top headlines from CBC New Brunswick - 2026-04-23

Good evening, these are your top stories for Wednesday, April 22, 2026.
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3 people arrested in 2021 death of Courtney MacKenzie in Saint John, police say

April 22 , 2026 at 05:23:19 p.m. ADT • :

A man has been charged with manslaughter and two other people are facing charges in connection with the death of a 27-year-old woman in Saint John nearly five years ago, according to police.

Mayor questions threshold for declaring flood in N.B. community

April 22 , 2026 at 06:07:12 p.m. ADT • :

The mayor of a New Brunswick municipality is questioning the threshold the province uses for declaring a flood, after one was declared for the community of Gagetown, despite there being no visible impact, he said, to infrastructure like roads or buildings.

'We are so fed up with this': N.B. Power transmission outages plague Edmundston

April 22 , 2026 at 05:53:49 p.m. ADT • :

After another N.B. Power transmission line problem left more than 4,500 people in Edmundston without power on Wednesday, the mayor said he is "fed up." Eric Marquis is calling for the utility to replace Line 70, a 60-year-old transmission line at the heart of the outages dating back to 2019.

Presumptive case of rabies identified near St. Stephen, testing underway

April 22 , 2026 at 02:29:35 p.m. ADT • :

According to a statement from the Department of Agriculture, Aquaculture and Fisheries, the New Brunswick Provincial Veterinary Laboratory identified a presumptive positive case of rabies in a raccoon in Little Ridge, just northwest of St. Stephen, and testing to confirm the case is underway.

Higgs government tracked residents' pandemic movements, criticisms

April 22 , 2026 at 06:00:00 a.m. ADT • :

A former head of the RCMP in New Brunswick raised red flags in 2021 about a secret program to track the movements and political views of some New Brunswickers during COVID-19 restrictions, CBC News has learned.