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The harvests of apples and grapes are looking good in the Quinte area. Eric Lawlor, of the Brighton office of the Ministry of Agriculture, says the apple crop is very good. The trees are yielding lots...

Bad manners led to incarceration for one man in Belleville. City police were approached around 1:30 a.m. by a man demanding a ride home. When the officers told the man they would not be driving him ho...

Taste! A celebration of regional cuisine has wrapped for another year in Picton. The annual event featuring local wine and food was held at the Crystal Palace yesterday (SAT). Organizer Grace Nyman sa...

Belleville Police say they are investigating two car fires overnight... and have arrested a young offender. Officers have not confirmed if they were the same reported by the Belleville Fire Department...

Vandals won't stop the grand opening of the newest skate park in the Quinte area. Northumberland O-P-P say graffiti was spray painted all over the structure in Campbellford's Kennedy Park on Wednesday...

Thieves have been a nuisance to the Crowe Valley Conservation Authority. There was a breakin this summer to the main building at the Crowe Bridge Conservation Area, northeast of Campbellford. Authorit...

The federal government is giving Cramahe township a little more help in paying its share of the cost of the new sewage treatment plant in Colborne. M-P Rick Norlock was on hand today for the groundbre...

A bit of a country flare for Belleville this weekend. The Chamber of Commerce is hosting the second annual Country Harvest Fall Family Festival at West Zwick's Park on Sunday afternoon. Chief Executiv...

Belleville Police aren't saying much about the discovery of old dynamite in the city. A Thurlow resident found several sticks at an undisclosed location this morning, and called police. City Police, w...

A Colborne-area man, burned in a fire at his indoor marijuana grow operation, has been convicted of production of a narcotic. Fifty-two-year-old Jeffrey Kremer was arrested by Northumberland O-P-P aft...