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Hastings County residents will see a slight tax increase this year. Council passed a budget Thursday, which puts the residential rate a 3.5 per cent for 2009 -- up from 3.3 per cent last year. Chief A...

Hastings County hopes to put a dent in its affordable housing waiting list. The county has put out requests for proposal for groups that can build 56 units. Social service director Eric Fry said the p...

There's new political will to build a high-speed information superhighway to link all of rural Ontario. That's the word from Hastings County Chief Administrative Officer Jim Pine, upon his return from...

Some local support for Prince Edward County Council's concern about the health effects of wind turbines. Greater Napanee Council agreed this week with the county's resolution asking for federal and pr...

Lafarge is recalling 50 fulltime workers laid off six weeks ago from the cement plant in Bath, southeast of Napanee. Company spokesperson Rob Cumming says some of the employees have already returned, ...

A description has been release of the suspect in yesterday's bank robbery in Belleville. City Police say a man between 20 and 30 walked into the Bank of Nova Scotia at the Price Chopper Plaza at four ...

A Director with the Belleville and District Chamber of Commerce is in favour of the provincial government's plans to combine the Provincial and Goods and Services Taxes. That measure is included in th...

The Sudbury Wolves wouldn't die on their home ice. In what could have been his last game in the OHL...overage forward Matt Dias scored four straight goals to open game-5 and defeat the Belleville Bull...

Prince Edward County Mayor Leo Finnegan hasn't been able to get the Pastor at the Picton Hospital reinstated. Audrey Whitney, a United Church Minister and the pastor in Picton for 17 years, was recent...

Quinte West Mayor John Williams wants Quinte Health Care to put some pressure on the Southeast LHIN. Williams, concerned about Q-H-C having to meet a March ninth deadline file its financial recovery p...