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2008 was a busy year for the Quinte West Fire Department. There were close to one thousand calls for service, 100 more then last year. Fire Chief John Whalen says many of the extra calls are false ala...

It looks like Belleville's false-alarm bylaw is working ...cutting down on the number of needless responses by emergency crews. During the three month period, April to June, the false alarm emergency ...

Belleville is making a strong bid for a surplus vehicle owned by the joint Hastings-Quinte Emergency Services. Belleville councillor Bob Dolan was instrumental in stopping a recent move by the EMS to ...

The incidence of crime in Belleville jumped four percent in the second quarter of this year. The number of crimes increased to one-thousand-921 but the rate at which police cleared them also increased...

Members of the public laid a total of eight complaints against Belleville's police officers during the second quarter of this year...just one up from the same period last year. These included five of ...

Are motorists in Belleville bad drivers ??...statistics say they've been crashing into each other or other things more this year. A report to the Police Services Baord shows 364-vehicle collisions dur...

Belleville is taking steps to further streamline it's process for approving developments in the city. Last spring, local builders made known their concerns in a city survey....the main one being the r...

Defence Minister Peter MacKay was the bearer of good news for the Canadian Military yesterday but wouldn't elaborate on how the expansion of the base to the north would proceed. Not all of the landown...

Police and fire officials are on the scene of a suspicious fire at a vacant home on Belleville's west hill. The small blaze broke out, at 4:30 this morning, at 49 Catherine Street. Senior Fire Prevent...

A Picton man has been sentenced to 14 days in jail for stealing shoes in Pembroke. Twenty-five-year-old Michael Bryan of Richmond Street pleaded guilty yesterday in Pembroke Court to theft under five-...