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A little positive news about the local unemployment rate. Statistics Canada says the figure for Hastings, Prince Edward, Lennox and Addington, Frontenac and Renfrew counties last month was 8.7 per cen...

Some bad manners by a patron at a Belleville restaurant. City Police say a man rode his bicycle through the North Front Street drive-thru at two o'clock yesterday morning and asked to put in an order....

A little boy who fell off a garage in Belleville is okay.. City Police say the toddler wandered out of a second-storey window at a home in the west end yesterday afternoon and then went over the edge ...

A firearm has been seized from a man who barricaded himself in a home in Tweed.. Central Hastings O-P-P responded early last evening after the suspect, claiming he had weapons, holed himself up in a h...

It will help the housing situation on the Tyendinaga Reserve. Local M-P Daryl Kramp says federal on-reserve housing funding for Tyendinaga for the current fiscal year will total 725-thousand dollars. ...

Northumberland-Quinte West M-P Rick Norlock isn't impressed with the actions of the Liberal-dominated Senate.. A bill would have eliminated the current two-for-one sentencing credit given to those who...

A Coe Hill resident faces a long list of charges after O-P-P stopped a man twice in two different vehicles in one day.. A logging truck was pulled over on Highway 37 in Tweed for highway traffic act v...

A Belleville man has been charged over mischief at a proposed landfill site near Midland. Sixty-four-year-old David Milne, a social activist, was one of 17 people charged after protestors prevented co...

A retired Belleville Nortel Networks employee summed it up for hundreds of the company's former workers at a rally in Toronto. Mary-Jane MacKinnon, who retired two years ago after 30 years at the Sidn...

It was a soggy crash for an Oshawa man in Havelock. Peterborough County O-P-P found a car half buried in a swamp on the north side of Highway seven, near County Road 30, at three o'clock this morning....