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Slapkauskas sentenced

A Belleville man has been sentenced to 14 years in jail for causing the head-on collision that killed an 88-year-old woman in Napanee in 2018. Earlier this month, Andrew Michael Slapkauskas, al...

Alana Cameron Jan 15, 2021

QHC adds more restrictions to visitors with stay at home order in place

As Ontario implements its stay at home order, Quinte Health Care is increasing its restrictions on visitors to the four hospitals. Effective Saturday, QHC will move to Phase 3 of its Care Partner and ...

David Foot Jan 15, 2021 A sign thanking frontline healthcare workers is planted outside of the main entrance to Belleville General Hospital, on April 21, 2020. (Photo: David Foot / Quinte News)

PHOTO: Federal inmate wanted

The Repeat Offender Parole Enforcement (R.O.P.E.) Squad is requesting the public's assistance in locating a federal offender wanted on a Canada Wide Warrant as a result of his breach of statutory rele...

Tim Durkin Jan 15, 2021

Recommendation for vacant council seat close

The chair of a committee recommending a candidate to fill the vacant seat on council, says they have just about completed their work. Councillor Kelly McCaw spoke to Quinte News about the process of g...

Tim Durkin Jan 15, 2021 Belleville councillor Kelly McCaw. (Photo: Quinte News)

Tip leads to impaired arrest in Trenton

A concerned citizen's call to police led to the arrest of one person in Quinte West on Thursday. Around 11:30 a.m., Quinte West OPP received a tip about a vehicle being driven erratically and involved...

Alana Cameron Jan 15, 2021 (Photo: Dominic Owens)

Councillor Kelly - Maybe I got it wrong

One member of Belleville Council says maybe he got it wrong. Sean Kelly was on the Lorne Brooker Show Friday morning, where they discussed the council seat left vacant by the passing of the late Pat C...

Tim Durkin Jan 15, 2021 Councillor Sean Kelly at city council, May 27, 2019 (Photo: Mary thomas/Quinte ZNews)

Child porn charges laid in US Homeland Security Investigation

In March 2020 the Belleville Police Service received information from the United States Office of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI). A large Child Pornography investigation had been conducted in ...

Tim Durkin Jan 15, 2021 Abi Begum / CC

$15,000 going to Soldier on from Jenn Casey Snowbirds game

Battles between the Trenton Golden Hawks and Wellington Dukes always mean more than games against others. On November 27, 2020 it held even more true, as the two clubs played with the goal of supporti...

News Jan 15, 2021 Trenton Golden Hawks bench during special pre-game ceremony at the Duncan McDonald Memorial Gardens on November 27, 2020 in Ontario, Canada (Photo: Andy Corneau/OJHL Images)

RELEASE: OPP say dangers of Fentanyl all too real

The Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) is urging the public to consider the potentially-lethal consequences of opioid use. The Bancroft OPP Detachment has investigated several suspected drug overdose dea...

John Spitters Jan 15, 2021 Purple Fentanyl. (File Photo)

Important land sale

The City of Belleville has sold some prime development property in the west end. The sale of the former Ben Bleecker building property on the east side of Sidney Street on the former fairgrounds has b...

John Spitters Jan 15, 2021 The deal is no longer conditional. The sold sign is up on the former Ben Bleecker property at Sidney Street and Bridge Street West in Belleville. (Photo: Quinte News)