Category Archives: News

Belleville Police were kept busy with drinking drivers overnight. An officer attempted to stop a vehicle on North Front Street, at 1am, for speeding and the driver pulled into a drive thru the wrong w...

C-N Rail has filed suit against Shawn Brant and two other aboriginal activists for disrupting train traffic during a series of blockades in 2007. C-N alleges the blockades intimidated employees, dislo...

The Kawartha-Pine Ridge School Board will have to start looking for a new Director of Education. Sylvia Terpstra's letter of retirement, effective next September, was accepted at last night's board me...

Quinte Real Estate Agents aren't too pleased with the budget. The Ontario Real Estate Association warns that the plan to harmonize the sales tax will add more than $2,000 to the cost of buying a resal...

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 ...