Category Archives: News

  Parking is now free for two hours in downtown Picton for the rest of 2016. Tuesday night council gave the go ahead on the deal to accommodate businesses and customers during the $5.5 million re...

The good news for Belleville taxpayers is basically no increase in city taxes for 2016 but the tax bill depends on the individual assessment and the education tax. City council spent the last day of i...

Belleville will take a look at the municipal services it offers and how taxpayers pay for them. Councillor Egerton Boyce raised the issue during city council's last day of budget debate. Boyce noted t...

The Quinte and District Association of Realtors is reporting a significant spike in property sales during the month of March. Compared to March of 2015, there was an almost 30 percent increase in sale...

The owners of a well-known local cheese factory, hit by a fire yesterday, say they're still open for business. Paul Henry of Maple Dale Cheese says a fire at the Highway 37 plant Monday morning was "i...

OPP are putting out a warning about drinking and riding ATVs, after a Brighton man was seriously injured in a crash on Sunday evening. Just before 6:00 p.m., officers responded to private property nea...

Supporters of children with autism will be holding a demonstration in Belleville this Friday. The event is to protest the government's decision to change the eligibility of autistic children to receiv...

If you have concerns or ideas about community safety, the Belleville Police Service would like to hear from you. City police are holding two community townhalls this week. The first is tomorrow (Wedne...

A cooking accident led to the evacuation of a west end Belleville residential building Tuesday morning. Residents report a man fell asleep in his apartment unit and left a frying pan on a hot burner. ...

If you need the services of your Member of Parliament in Bay of Quinte riding, here is some information for you. MP Neil Ellis has opened offices near the downtowns of the three municipalities in the ...