Author Archives: David Foot

  With a gift of $1.2 million, the Kay Stafford Memorial Fund has now awarded grants to more than 70 local community groups for the benefit of providing better health care to residents of Quinte ...

The Mayor of Centre Hastings says at this point, their council would be strongly against a move to amalgamate OPP detachments in his municipality and Bancroft. The Ministry of Community Safety is cond...

Shelby-Zielski Thibault has been found not guilty on all charges connected to the death of Aaron Rushlow, after an incident on Walmsley Place in west end Belleville, in October of 2016. She had been c...

One of the leadership candidates for the Ontario PC Party is coming to Quinte this weekend. Christine Elliott will attend an event at the Trent Port Marina at 3:00 Sunday afternoon. Prince Edward-Hast...

A Quinte West man suspected of hitting a police officer with a car during a chase in early January has been arrested. Officers were chasing a reported dangerous driver on the evening of January 3rd an...

A pedestrian has been killed after being hit by a truck in Campbellford today. OPP say they were called just after 11:00 this morning, when the 56-year-old Trent Hills woman was hit by a commercial tr...

Mayor Robert Quaiff told those in attendance that he couldn't stress how important this funding is. Quaiff1 He said the new hospital won't happen overnight but this is a step in the right direction. D...

The number of jobs in Canada fell by 88,000 in January to give the labour market its steepest one-month drop in nine years. The net decline helped push the national unemployment rate up to 5.9% in Jan...

There will be no change atop the Lower Trent Conservation Board of Directors this year. Quinte West Deputy Mayor Jim Alyea will return as chair, while Centre Hastings Councillor Eric Sandford will ret...