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Hastings County wants to build some affordable housing in Coe Hill, in the county's north west. Administrator Jim Pine says the county has applied to the province to construct a four-unit building. He...

A Russian Federation aircraft has arrived at C-F-B Trenton, preparing to conduct an aerial observation mission over Canada. The Tupolev T-U-154M, which touched down at the base yesterday, will be give...

No surprise to the people who regularly drive on Palmer Road North in Belleville. The C-A-A's 20 Worst Roads in Ontario survey has found Palmer got the fourth most votes across the province for the bu...

The Crowe Valley Conservation Authority has some work to do to reduce a projected 7.2 per cent levy increase to its member municipalities. The board reviewed the 753-thousand-dollar 2010 draft budget,...

Could Madoc be going to the cats??? Last night, Centre Hastings Council, reacting to complaints about stray felines in the urban area, asked staff to report on options to deal with cats. Quinte West p...

There's a lot of extra cleaning going on in the Q5 unit at Belleville General Hospital. In a press release issued last evening, QHC spokesperson Kim Kattouw says an influenza-like illness has been dec...

Hundreds of people carrying their kids and unbrellas lined up for hours to get first dibs on the H1N1 flu vaccinations in Quinte yesterday. Day one of the public health clinics in Belleville, Trenton,...

The final drive is on to get the last of nearly 12-hundred Quinte-area children outfitted for winter in the Adopt-A-Child program. and, according to spokesperson Nancy Zeppa, with about 150-kids left ...

Prime Minister Harper is praising the latest Canadian soldier killed in Afghanistan. Twenty-six-year-old Lieutenant Justin Boyes was on foot patrol southwest of Kandahar City yesterday when he was kil...

A former navy serviceman at C-F-B Trenton has been cleared of a sexual assault charge. Retired Petty Officer First Class Robert McDougall was convicted in a 2007 court martial of raping a female Canad...