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Natalie Doornbos of Foxboro is this year's Queen of the Furrow. Doornbos claimed the title at the Hastings County Farm Show and Plowing Match at the Desnoo farm in Thurlow yesterday. The runners-up we...

The Ontario Municipal Board has finally set a date for a meeting in response to an appeal by the Toronto company planning a major retail development in Brighton. Craft Development, which wants to buil...

Two Prince Edward County Cheese Factories have won big at the American Cheese Society Awards.. Black River Cheese and Fifth Town Artisan Cheese were awarded a first, second and third place ranking out...

A Trenton-area man with lots of experience on the tractor is the top V-I-P plower in Hastings County. Farm Show and Plowing Match public relations spokesman Jim Haggerty says Quinte West councillor an...

Still some hope the provincial governent will change its decision forcing the closure of the Licence Bureau in Belleville. The family-run business got that news earlier this month when the province an...

Kingston may have come out on top in the "Count Me In " energy reducing challenge last Friday, but officials say we're all winners. Belleville residents did their part ...cutting the lights, turning o...

A Trenton man who jumped into the Salmon River to save his dog...didn't make it back. 33-year old Jimmy Cota and his wife Tara were enjoying an afternoon of fishing near Shannonville, on Monday aftern...

A pickup truck sunk in the Trent River in Trenton after a high-speed police chase that started in Belleville. City Police tried to stop a possible impaired driver at Cannifton and McFarland Drive, sho...

A sexual assault suspect in Belleville was picked up by officers in the Liftlock City overnight. The 46-year old man was arrested by the Peterborough/Lakefield Police Service on outstanding warrants i...

Police say alcohol was a factor in an incident in east-end Belleville in which a man was busting his own stuff. Police responded to a Pine Street address, just before 10 last night, and found a 41-yea...