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Joint Task Force 2 not coming to Trenton

For more than 12 years, plans have been in the works to bring Canada's elite fighters to Trenton. Now the government has officially cancelled that proposal. On Monday afternoon, it was learned that th...

News Feb 10, 2020

Conservative AGM brings 3 leadership hopefuls to Belleville

Three leadership contestants for the Conservative Party of Canada were in Belleville Wednesday night. Lawyer Leslyn Lewis and MPs Derek Sloan and Erin O'Toole were guests of the Bay of Quinte Conserva...

News Jan 30, 2020 Bay of Quinte Board of Directors member Rod Hutchison signs the nomination paperwork for lawyer Leslyn Lewis, who is eyeing a run at the Conservative Party leadership (Photo: Bay of Quinte Conservative EDA)

The funds are ready for the Brighton Skate Park

The money is in, and now the work can begin. Tuesday at the Brighton Skate Park, Northumberland-Peterborough South MPP David Piccini announced $125,000 for the construction of a new skate park. The Tr...

News Jan 28, 2020 Officials with the Brighton Skate Park Committee announce they have all the money they new for new skate park equipment (Photo: Quinte News)

Local MP running for Conservative leadership

He was elected as a Member of Parliament on October 21st, 2019. Just 93 days later, he says he is running to be leader of the Conservative Party of Canada. In a press release Wednesday (January 22) mo...

News Jan 22, 2020 Hastings Lennox and Addington MP Derek Sloan (Photo: submitted to Quinte News by Derek Sloan campaign - Credit: Mélanie Provencher, House of Commons Photo Services)

Millions in funding for Bay of Quinte riding infrastructure

Local MPP Todd Smith announced infrastructure funding for local municipalities this week. On Friday afternoon, Smith announced up to $8.6 million for Hastings County, Prince Edward County, Belleville,...

News Jan 17, 2020 (l-r) PEC Mayor Steve Ferguson, MPP Todd Smith, Belleville Mayor Mitch Panciuk, Municipal Affairs Minister Steve Clark, and Quinte West Mayor Jim Harruson (Photo: submitted to Quinte News)

Hastings-Lennox&Addington County riding millions in infrastructure funding

The province is investing up to $6.9 million for infrastructure projects in the Hastings-Lennox and Addington riding. On Friday, MPP Daryl Kramp released how each municipality would share the funding....

News Jan 17, 2020

Trenton disturbance leads to charges

On Tuesday January 14, 2020, at 2:45 p.m., officers from the Quinte West detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) responded to a disturbance reported at a retail store on Front Street in Tren...

News Jan 15, 2020

Impaired and driving charges laid in Colborne

On Tuesday January 14, 2020 at approximately 8:56 p.m., a member of the Northumberland Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) conducted a traffic stop in the town of Colborne. After a conve...

News Jan 15, 2020

Trillium Foundation announces money for Alzheimer's HPE

The Alzheimer's Society Hastings-Prince Edward received some big dollars to help with programming over the next three years. At the Quinte Sports and Wellness Centre Thursday morning, the Ontario Tril...

News Jan 09, 2020

Belleville Police release: Drug charges and failing to remain

On December 31, 2019 at 4:30 a.m., police responded to a call in relation to a suspicious vehicle in the city's core area where the occupants were reportedly doing drugs. Upon police checking the occu...

News Jan 01, 2020