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The search, by a Griffin Rescue Helicopter from C-F-B Trenton, for a downed aircraft near St. Thomas resumed this morning. Heavy fog and darkness suspended the search last night. A representative from...

The power outage in a large rural area surrounding Bancroft and Barry's Bay is over.. Hydro One says the power to almost 56-hundred homes and cottages went out at 2-30 overnight, and the utility didn'...

The provincial government has chosen Host Kilmer Service Centres to modernize and upgrade its two service centres on Highway 4-0-1, just west of Trenton. M-P-P Lou Rinaldi says Infrastructure Ontario ...

A Belleville man who broke into a Peterborough home will spend another 40 days in jail. Twenty-one-year-old Paul Nixson of Moira Street and two other men were arrested after cigarettes and a lighter w...

A Campbellford scrap metal collector has been sentenced to nine months house arrest for stealing sculptures while making a business call. Fifty-six-year-old Doug Snyder, who pleaded guilty on June 24t...

A Toronto company that wants to build a 64.5 megawatt wind farm north of Picton and on Big Island has filed for court protection from creditors. Skypower Corporation's problems are a result of the fin...

Another video remand appearance next week for a murder suspect in Quinte West. Thirty-seven-year-old Marcus Wilson appeared via video remand in Belleville provincial court yesterday on a charge of fir...

Two controversial trees in downtown Trenton are going. Quinte West Public Works Director Chris Angelo met with concerned citizens and downtown merchants yesterday to discuss the proposed removal of th...

A 12-million dollar proposal for a "cultural centre" in Picton includes a half-million dollar upgrading of Picton Public Library. Chief Librarian Barbara Sweet says it will mean adding space and impro...

A 12-million dollar "cultural centre" proposed for Picton has received support-in-principle from Prince Edward County Council. The three-pronged plan calls for a half-million dollar upgrading of Picto...