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The Hastings-Prince Edward Health Unit is warning people about an illness that was almost forgotten about. Doctor Schabas told the Board of Health meeting yesterday the mumps vaccine people receive as...

Cramahe Township council has set a 16.7-million dollar budget. Treasurer Mora Chatterson says about 26 per cent of that will be raised through taxes, but the impact on the property tax bill hasn't yet...

Provincial funding of 838-thousand dollars will help Loyalist College offer more courses to a growing number of students. The money is being made available under the government's five-year Open Ontari...

A municipality north of Napanee will ask residents during this year's election if they want electoral reform. Stone Mills Township council has approved the bylaw needed to add the elections-at-large q...

The Canadian Union of Public Employees has filed a grievance against combining the bylaw enforcement service in Prince Edward County with canine control. Chief Bylaw Official Garry Davis says the move...

The outdoor burning bans are now over in Prince Edward County, Quinte West and Stirling-Rawdon Township.. The restrictions came into affect late last week because of a rash of controlled burns earlier...

A 17-year-old Scarborough boy has been arrested in connection with an assault that resulted in a lockdown at the high school in Picton. Prince Edward O-P-P responded yesterday afternoon after two stud...

The issue of repairs to Belleville's police headquarters, which caused a storm of controversey during budget deliberations this week, is not about to go away. Everyone seemed to agree police headquart...

Belleville Mayor Neil Ellis says he's "proud" of the city's 68-point-seven million dollar budget that kept tax increases just above or just below one percent...with a "decrease" for taxpayers in the T...

A staff proposal to phase-out area policing costs in the city of Belleville has been put on the back burner. The recommendation from Manager of Taxation Susan Howard calls for the phase out of area co...