The Cobourg Police Service (CPS) has concluded its annual Festive RIDE campaign. The campaign, which ran from November 24, 2025, to January 2, 2026, focused on impaired driving prevention and community engagement. Throughout the holiday season, CPS officers conducted RIDE checks across Cobourg, stopping vehicles to pro...

The latest update to the Hastings Prince Edward Public Health Unit shows 78 new high risk cases of COVID-19 in the region. The total number of active high-risk cases in the region is at 88. No new deaths from COVID-19 are being reported. Active outbreaks of COVID-19 in high-risk settings remains at seven. Five of the o...

Active cases of COVID-19 continue to go down in the area. Hastings Prince Edward Public Health says the number of active high-risk cases of COVID-19 across Hastings and Prince Edward Counties is 85, down from 98 last week. Seventy-two new high-risk cases of COVID-19 have been reported since the start of the pandemic. N...

The province of Ontario is asking people in the province to wear masks when indoors. Medical Officer of Health Dr. Kieran Moore spoke Monday morning about issues facing us this winter in regards to Respiratory Syncytial Virus, COVID-19, and influenza. Moore is "strongly recommending'' Ontarians mask in all indoor ...

Active cases of COVID-19 as well as hospitalizations are down locally however Hastings Prince Edward Public Health is reporting two more deaths due to the virus. In its weekly update, the Public Health dashboard shows there have now been 85 COVID-related deaths. There are 189 active high-risk cases, down from 211 last ...

Local health care leaders are urging residents to take key actions as we approach what they believe could be a difficult cold, flu and COVID-19 season. Saying "we are stronger together," the Hastings Prince Edward Ontario Health Team, Quinte Health Care and Hastings Prince Edward Public Health issued a joint ...

Hastings Prince Edward Public Health is reporting a drop in new COVID-19 cases in its latest update. According to its COVID-19 dashboard, public health reported 175 new high-risk cases of COVID-19 in the region. That is down from the 201 reported the week before. Known active high-risk cases also went down. There are 2...

Federal ministers say all COVID-19 border restrictions will end as of Saturday, including mandatory vaccinations, testing and quarantine of international travellers, as well as mandatory masks on planes and trains. The cabinet order maintaining COVID-19 border measures will not be renewed when it expires on Sept. 30. T...

Active cases have dropped but the number of deaths caused by COVID-19 in Hastings and Prince Edward Counties took a significant jump over the last week. HPE Public Health is reporting nine more deaths in its weekly report. Seventy-seven people across the two counties have died since the start of the pandemic. The publi...

Hastings Prince Edward Public Health is prioritizing the bivalent vaccine targeting the Omicron variant of COVID-19 for residents and workers at identified highest-risk facilities. Public Health will be receiving limited supplies of the adapted version of the Moderna Spikevax COVID-19 vaccine from the province in the c...