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Home builders aren't as busy in Brighton this year as they probably want to be. Chief Building Official Rick Jones says only 18 permits for the construction of new houses have been issued so far, comp...

Two Quinte area high school students will graduate with money in their pocket for post-secondary education. The board of the Hastings Children's Aid Socity has announced the winner of the annual four-...

Good economic news for the Quinte region. Norampac in Quinte West will be installing new wood residue boilers, at a cost of 18 million dollars. The boilers should be in operation by the end of the yea...

The seven members of the Community Advisory Council at Quinte Health Care have been announced. They are Q-H-C Supervisor Graham Scott, who will be the chairperson, Lyle Vanclief, Ross McDougall, Maure...

Some tension in Marmora about a suspicious package. Central Hastings O-P-P, firefighters and the O-P-P Explosive Disposal Unit responded yesterday afternoon when the package was found in the Bursthall...

Some neighbours in Belleville's East Hill didn't get the police message to settle down.. Officers went to the Pine Street area at ten o'clock last night regarding a dispute, and everyone involved left...

Home builders aren't as busy in Brighton this year as they probably want to be. Chief Building Official Rick Jones says only 18 permits for the construction of new houses have been issued so far, comp...

It looks unlikely there will be any action to reduce the Cormorant population at Presqu'ile Provincial Park this year. The Ministry of Natural Resources' Resource Management Implementation Plan for Hi...

The last Conservative M-P-P in the Belleville-Trenton area has made his choice of who should be the next leader of the Ontario Tories. Doug Rollins, the Quinte M-P-P from 1995 to '99, says Tim Hudak s...

A Cherry Valley area group has stepped up its opposition to a proposed 237-cottage development on East Lake. Friends of East Lake President Linda Cole says members took action right after holding a pu...