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Canadian student shares story on journey home from China and life under quarantine

A Quebec woman living under quarantine since getting back from China about a week ago, is thanking 8 Wing and Red Cross staff for their work in keeping everyone comfortable and in good spirits. Myriam...

David Foot Feb 13, 2020 Myriam Larouche snaps a photo while on a repatriation flight back from Wuhan, China, where she had been studying for her masters degree, prior to the coronavirus outbreak. (Photo: Submitted / Myriam Larouche)

Ministry of Labour investigating Picton construction incident

The Ministry of Labour is looking into an incident at a construction site in Picton yesterday that injured two people. An MOL spokesperson confirms the two were injured during the construction of a bu...

David Foot Feb 12, 2020

Panciuk: Food program and downtown problems are separate issues

Belleville Mayor Mitch Panciuk has met with representatives of a local group that provides a daily food program for those in need behind City Hall, to find ways to accommodate them better over the lon...

David Foot Feb 12, 2020

Picton hospital gets new portable X-Ray machine

A significant piece of new equipment has arrived at Prince Edward County Memorial Hospital. Thanks to the generosity of donors and the fundraising work of the hospital foundation, a new portable X-ray...

David Foot Feb 12, 2020 Pictured in the Diagnostic Imaging Department at PECMH with the new portable machine from left: Shannon Coull, executive director of the PECMH Foundation, Alex Bedard, medical radiation technologist and Dr. Cliff Rice, director on the PECMH Foundation Board. (Photo: Briar Boyce / PECMHF)

$40,000 worth of THC concentrate seized at Joyceville Institution

Officers at Joyceville Institution have made a significant contraband seizure in the Assessment Unit. Assistant Warden Lorrie Oddie says officers were processing an inmates personal items in the Admis...

David Foot Feb 12, 2020

Loyalist to offer stand-alone nursing degree program

The Provincial Government is making some changes to post-secondary nursing programs that will impact the healthcare sector and Loyalist College specifically. The government has announced that colleges...

David Foot Feb 11, 2020 One of the hospital room simulation labs at Loyalist College's Kente Building, which underwent a $3.2 million upgrade. (Photo: Alex Mahar / Quinte News)

Two people hurt in Picton construction incident

A section of Ross Street in Picton was closed this morning for an OPP investigation. OPP East Region put out a tweet around 9:00 a.m. saying officers had shut down Ross Street between Main Street and ...

David Foot Feb 11, 2020 (Photo: Twitter / @OPP_ER)

VIA Rail cancels Tuesday morning trips due to blockade

A railway blockade east of Belleville is going to have continued impacts on VIA Rail travellers into Tuesday. A statement from VIA says all departures between Montreal and Toronto, Toronto and Ottawa,...

David Foot Feb 10, 2020 Robert Taylor / CC

Harrison "not surprised" JTF2 isn't coming to 8 Wing

Quinte West Mayor Jim Harrison says he's "not surprised" that Canada's elite special forces team is no longer coming to CFB Trenton. News broke Monday afternoon that the Joint Task Force 2 would not b...

David Foot Feb 10, 2020 A steel globe structure outside Quinte West City Hall, which was donated to the city by Horizon Metal Works, in early 2020. (Photo:

Proposed Quinte West operating budget includes 1.93% tax bump

The City of Quinte West's proposed operating budget for 2020 totals $81.3 million, which is about $4.68 million more than what was planned to be spent last year. The city ended up spending almost $79 ...

David Foot Feb 10, 2020 Quinte West Director of Finance David Clazie gives a preliminary budget presentation to council on February 10, 2020. (Photo: David Foot / Quinte News)