Category Archives: News

The recession is biting locally, as the number of people on social assistance in Hastings County has increased significantly. The Hastings Department of Social Services reports that last month, there ...

The water's been rising fast on the Trent River, and Lower Trent Conservation has issued a flood warning. Lower Trent says levels in the Trent are likely to rise for another 7 days as snow melt runoff...

Occasional teachers with the Hastings-Prince Edward School Board have a new four year contract. It gives the elementary teachers two-percent in the first year, five-and a-half percent in the second ye...

In the future, Belleville's Official Plan could give a different look to farmlands in Thurlow Ward. Stephen and Colette Tanner have applied to have 33-acres of land on Thrasher Road re-designated from...

Another medical clinic is being planned for Belleville's downtown area. The city's Planning Committee is recommending that City Council approve rezoning for a site at Station and Albion Streets. Plann...

No serious injuries despite lots of traffic accidents around Quinte. Belleville Police investigated 13 crashes this morning, due to slippery road conditions. The O-P-P went to about 20 accidents aroun...

The final installment of General Dynamics Canada's fifty-thousand dollar donation to the National Air Force Museum at C-F-B Trenton is in the bank. General Dynamics official Brian Akitt delivered the ...

M-P-P Randy Hillier wants to get rid of the Municipal Property Assessment Corporation. The Ontario Conservative Leadership candidate says M-PAC is "an out of touch, out of control bureaucracy that ign...

Occasional teachers with the Hastings-Prince Edward School Board will get better salaries and benefits and other improvements in their new four year contract. The board ratified the deal yesterday aft...

Contract talks between the Kawartha Pine Ridge School Board and the Elementary Teachers Federation of Ontario have broken down. Local ET-FO President Dave Wing says they're back to where they started ...