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The public was out in droves for an open house at the Codrington Community Center yesterday. The hall, north of Brighton, was filled with residents worried about a proposed aggregate pit on Ferguson H...

Prince Edward County firefighters' wages will be brought up to provincial standards in a new four-year contract. County council approved the collective agreement with the professional firefighters ass...

What someone will do in Belleville for an icecream bar. City Police responded yesterday afternoon after getting a report of a robbery at the Mister Convenience store in Bridge Street West. However, it...

Lockdowns at two prisons in the Quinte Area are expected to continue for a few more days. Prisoners at Millhaven Institution have been confined to their cells since a staff member found an unidentifie...

Hastings County Council has approved two motions, paving the way for improvements to hundreds of housing units, and more affordable housing. Chief Administrative Officer Jim Pine says councillors vote...

A small fire behind a Dundas Street east business in Belleville was deliberately set. Senior Fire Prevention Officer Dave McMullen says there wasn't much damage from the fire inside a steel building a...

Visitors to Algonquin Provincial Park, north of Bancroft, will be greeted late tomorrow afternoon by student workers angry with the provincial government. The young people will stop vehicles at the ea...

An official with the Ministry of Health has taken aim at how Belleville and Hastings County recruit doctors. Jeff Goodyear says the city and county get funding from the provincial Underserviced Area P...

Seasonal flu clinics in Northumberland County will begin earlier than usual this year. The Health Unit's Medical Officer of Health, Doctor Lynn Noseworthy, says the decision to start in October was ma...

A Deseronto man has been sentenced to three years in prison for impaired driving causing death. Forty-year-old Wayne Wagar pleaded guilty in Belleville criminal court yesterday to impaired, leaving th...