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Belleville businessman Jim Sinclair disagrees with the city planning committee's decision to table his rezoning application for property on College Street East. The committee tabled application last n...

A bid by Belleville businessman Jim Sinclair to establish a scrap metal yard on College Street east has been put on hold. Last night the city's Planning Committee tabled the rezoning application until...

Belleville's Planning Committee has rejected a bid by a developer to change plans for a large parcel of land in the east end...at Farley Avenue and Station Street. Chair Tom Lafferty says two years ag...

The policing issue remains alive in Stirling Rawdon townsip. A provincial agency has temporarily stopped police services from providing criminal record checks to private companies. It's an important r...

The train has left the station....and so has any talk of a Brighton railway overpass or underpass. Brighton Council decided unanimously, last night, to abandon the idea of a grade separation at the Pr...

The United Way of Quinte Campaign is coming up short in 2009....by about a quarter-million dollars. Executive Director Julia Gosson says they anticipated having difficulties this year because of the e...

The economy may be rebounding.....but, the hiring climate remains cloudy in Belleville. A Manpower report indicates only 7-percent of Belleville-area employers plan to hire in the upcoming quarter bet...

Local MP Daryl Kramp is almost back from his most recent visit to China....this one more highly publicized as he was accompanying the Prime Minister. Kramp says he's pleased with the signing of an agr...

Ontario's highest court has acquitted a Trenton woman convicted in 1999 of killing her infant son based in part on evidence of now disgraced pathologist Dr. Charles Smith, calling the case a miscarria...

The longtime Chief of the Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte will continue to lead the Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory. Chief R Don Maracle was re-elected by a wide margin in a vote that garnered little interes...