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The first drop in the welfare caseload in Hastings County since last October. The social services department says 3,580 people in the county, Belleville and Quinte West got assistance last month, down...

Local M-P Rick Norlock says opponents of plans to spent almost one-million dollars on milk for prisoners at Warkworth and two other facilities are twisting the figures. A report this week indicated th...

New town-house developments near Meyer's Pier in Belleville have helped fuel more than eight-million dollars in building activity in the city. Permits for a 14-thousand square foot building, worth 1.2...

The O-P-P detachment commander in Bancroft is heading south, to the same job in Prince Edward County. Staff Sergeant Barry Freeburn will assume his new duties on May 31st, replacing Bernie Gaw, who of...

The Christmas break this year for students and staff at the Kawartha-Pine Ridge School Board won't start on a Saturday and end on a Sunday, two weeks later. Trustees voted to begin the holidays on Thu...

A local politician isn't happy about the way some local politics is being played. Yesterday, the Hastings Prince Edward Board of Health voted to ask Quinte West Mayor John Williams to replace Councill...

Investigators are still looking for the cause of a 750-thousand dollar fire that destroyed a house and garage in Centre Hastings. Fire Chief Craig Horton says the flames started late yesterday morning...

Three men from Flinton are facing charges after a drug bust in the village. The OPP"s Drug Enforcement Unit searched a home on Clement Street on Tuesday and seized marijuana plants in various stages o...

Colonel Russell Williams, the former commander of CFB Trenton facing murder and sexual assault charges, received regular updates on the police investigation that would lead months later to his arrest....

The big news will have to wait a while. Belleville Mayor Neil Ellis was to have announced the industry opening soon in Belleville tomorrow...however...the announcement has been cancelled. Mayor Ellis ...