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The Ontario Fire Marshall's office has been called in to help investigate a house fire in Brighton.. Fire Chief Dale Wales says firefighters responded at 5-45 this morning to the blaze on Little Lake ...

The Workers Help Centre in Belleville has thrown its support behind the formation of an Injured Workers Group in the Quinte Area. The Help Centre, a United Way of Quinte and Quinte Labour Council proj...

The Napanee-area M-P-P has introduced a bill to reform the Workers Safety Insurance Board. Lanark-Frontenac-Lennox and Addington representative Randy Hillier told the legislature yesterday the W-S-I-B...

The mystery for the family of the late Calvin Vanness of Belleville continues. The O-P-P say the Chief Coroner's Office in Toronto yesterday determined the remains discovered by hunters in a bush area...

Officials are confident the future of Warkworth Institution is a bright one. Warden of Northumberland County Linda Thompson says a task force focussing on the prison in Warkworth has had several meeti...

The municipality of Tweed is taking a closer look at how it can avoid excess building materials being dumped it its landfill. Reeve Joanne Albert says some contractors who live in Tweed, but work on j...

A few Quinte area municipalities are planning to take advantage of a new provincial program to keep hazardous electronic waste out of their dump sites. The program is aimed at the graveyard of electro...

Those unsung heroes of community sports...the volunteers...will get their time in the spotlight in the Northumberland-Quinte West riding, early in the new year. M-P-P Lou Rinaldi is calling for nomina...

Lots of applicants, but only one was chosen. The Stirling Festival Theatre has hired a new Managing Director. She is Claudia Staines, from the Owen Sound area. Claudia Staines will begin her new posit...

Belleville is moving ahead with plans to tap into ideas from its younger generation. Work is underway to form the promised Youth Advisory Committee of City Council. Spokesman Colin Leaver says a surve...