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Belleville's alternative voting plan to be finalized Monday

Belleville Council is set to rubber stamp the use of telephone and internet voting as the primary method to cast ballots in the 2022 municipal election. Councillors will see a final report on Monday t...

David Foot Apr 09, 2021 Marco Verch Professional Photographer / CC

High temperature yesterday breaks 20-year-old record

The Quinte region saw a new high temperature record for April 8 yesterday, just barely. The high recorded at CFB Trenton yesterday was 23.4 degrees, narrowly edging out the 2001 record of 21.1 degrees...

David Foot Apr 09, 2021

Bad third period buries the B-Sens

(Angus Crookshank scores his first professional goal) The Belleville Senators went into the third period of last night's game in Winnipeg with a 5-4 lead. They came out of it with an 8-5 loss. For the...

Jack Miller Apr 09, 2021

Belleville Council to discuss vacant seat on Monday

Belleville councillors will again begin the process of filling a vacant council seat on Monday. Council will have to decide how it will fill the seat left vacant by Ryan Williams, who resigned earlier...

David Foot Apr 09, 2021

Belleville Police take 68 calls for service, including trailer fire, in last 24 hours

Mischief to trailer Belleville police are looking for suspects after a trailer was broken into and set on fire behind a Bell Boulevard business on Thursday morning. It happened just before 8:30 a.m. a...

David Foot Apr 09, 2021 (Photo: David Foot / Quinte News)

HPEDSB confirms one positive and one probable COVID-19 case at Centennial Secondary School

The Hastings Prince Edward District School Board says a student at Centennial Secondary School in Belleville has tested positive for COVID-19, while another is listed as "probable" and is awaiting tes...

David Foot Apr 09, 2021 (Photo: David Foot / Quinte News)

Belleville cracks top five of MacLean's annual rankings of "Best Places to Live"

Belleville has cracked the top five of MacLean's magazine's annual list of "best places to live in Canada". The Friendly City finished at number four on the list of 415, scoring high for its access to...

David Foot Apr 09, 2021

Bay of Quinte NDP taps Bell as candidate for potential upcoming election

As federal politicians gear up for a potential spring or summer election, the local New Democratic Party has tapped a repeat candidate to run, once an election is called. The Bay of Quinte NDP has una...

David Foot Apr 09, 2021 Prince Edward County resident Stephanie Bell will represent the Bay of Quinte NDP for a second time, if and when a federal election is called in 2021. (Photo: Submitted / Bay of Quinte NDP)

UPDATE: Quinte Health Care is hoping to take over reporting COVID-19-related hospitalizations.

UPDATED on April 9/21 @ 9:50 a.m.: QHC says while it will be releasing the number of people in its care for COVID-19, it will not be going into specifics about those patients, or where they're from. -...

David Foot Apr 08, 2021 Tents are set up outside of the Belleville General Hospital Emergency Department during the COVID-19 Pandemic. (Photo: Submitted / Jenny Cox Photography)

Town hall focuses on costs of poor roads

Poor roads are costing Canadians billions of dollars every year. On Thursday, CAA hosted a virtual town hall on the importance of road repair, with a focus on practices in Belleville. The event was he...

Alana Cameron Apr 08, 2021 CAA hosts a virtual town hall on the importance of road repair. April 8, 2021.