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The company operating as Canada Talc in Madoc has been fined 285-thousand dollars in connection with the death of a young worker at the mine a year and a half ago. In August 2008, 22-year-old Justin R...

A Quinte West man is charged with cutting down someone else's trees. Prince Edward O-P-P got a complaint on Monday from a resident on County Road Eleven, near Cherry Valley, about someone chopping dow...

Farmers and property owners in Sidney ward of Quinte West are wondering about a proposed natural gas pipeline heading for CFB Trenton. A landowner north of the base said the Union Gas company was stak...

A Brighton man has been sentenced for stealing fireworks and beating up his former girlfriend's new boyfriend. Eighteen-year-old Mattieu Hetzel pleaded guilty in Cobourg Court to assault and theft, an...

Quinte West Trustee John Brisbois wants another four years on the Algonquin-Lakeshore Catholic School Board. Brisbois, first elected in 2006, filed his nominatiion papers yesterday for the October sch...

Belleville City Police have stopped a vehicle suspected of almost running down several students at the high school in Brighton. Northumberland O-P-P responded yesterday after getting a report of a dan...

The bodies of two Royal Canadian Mounted Police Officers killed in Haiti may be returned to C-F-B Trenton this week. There are tentative plans for repatriation ceremonies at Eight Wing tomorrow for Se...

A group of unionized workers with Hastings County have accepted a new contract. OPSEU Local 4-96 President Dianne Dejong says 91 per cent of the 120 union members who voted in Belleville yesterday wer...

The water is safe to drink and use despite a diesel fuel spill into Rawdon Creek in Stirling. The Ministry of Environment and a cleanup company were called after 800 to one-thousand litres of fuel was...

The United Way of Quinte's Online Product Sale was so popular it might already be over. The sale started last Wednesday, but it had to be shut down because of the overwhelming response. There were sev...