Category Archives: News

The 2024 Belleville Poppy Campaign is now underway. At Monday's council meeting, Scott Wannamaker, chair of the Belleville Poppy Campaign, pinned a poppy on Mayor Ellis to mark the start of the campai...

Northumberland OPP are reporting a number of unrelated traffic incidents in the area over the weekend. On Friday at around 5:20 p.m., officers spotted a motorist on Verona Street in Cobourg who was kn...

Almost $200,000 worth of contraband was recently seized at Millhaven Institution. Correctional Service Canada reports the seizure was made at the maximum-security federal institution on October 24. It...

Canada's reliance on food banks has soared and this region is no different. This week, Food Banks Canada reported there were more than two million recorded visits to the nation's food banks in March, ...

Belleville police are continuing to investigate vandalism at the cenotaph on Station Street earlier this month. On the afternoon of October 23, a resident called police to report a suspicious person. ...

Four people have been arrested and one more is wanted in connection with several frightening armed bank robberies across Ontario over a 16-month period, one of them in Belleville. Project Opal is a mu...

A male busted for shoplifting on Sunday in Belleville's north end was picked up for the same crime less than 24 hours later. Belleville police responded to a Bell Blvd business Monday afternoon where ...

UPDATE: The highway has reopened (9:15 a.m.) Highway 401 west around Brighton is closed to traffic at this hour. A tractor-trailer rolled over shortly before 5 a.m. and is blocking the highway. No one...

Hastings Prince Edward District School Board is committed to improving student results in EQAO testing. A report to the board at Monday's meeting outlined the next steps of action. The most recent EQA...

After receiving a report that the City of Belleville has paid $1.5 million in carbon tax since the program was introduced in 2019, council approved a motion calling on the federal government to create...