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The Hastings-Quinte Joint Social Services Committee will look at ongoing problems of violent incidents in some affordable housing buildings in the Hastings -Quinte area. The incidents involve drug dea...

Centre Hastings residents on welfare or low income will soon have a Job Bus to get them to work sites in the Belleville area. The Hastings -Quinte Joint Social Services Committee has decided to releas...

Belleville could have a 12-bed hostel for the homeless before this winter. Last year the homeless in the Hastings-Quinte area spent a total of 732-nights in accommodation provided by the Social Servic...

A Belleville councillor has raised the possibility of a "conflict of interest" by a Quinte West councillor on the Joint Social Services Committee. Yesterday Councillor Bob Dolan asked Councillor Terry...

Belleville Police are investigating a hit-and-run overnight. Officers responded to reports of an erratic driver, at 12:30 this morning, from the downtown area. and, as officers were looking for the su...

It's International Nurses Week....and, local nurses were honoured for excellence at a dinner in Belleville last evening. Tammy Armstrong received the Rotary Club Award of Merit while Tara Fitzgerald, ...

Natural gas leaks can lead to explosions with deadly consequences, however, a bad leak yesterday afternoon in Belleville was handled safely. Construction led to a leak in a gas main at Centre and Mcfa...

Two Belleville schools, and residents, affected by a gas leak in the northeast end of the city. Officials locked down Hillcrest Public school ...students will go home on buses but others will remain i...

There's been an evacuation of St. Theresa's Catholic Secondary School in Belleville, after construction equipment broke a natural gas main just after three this afternoon. Students were moved over to ...

Two men have been arrested putting graffiti on a car in Trenton. The suspects were seen by several people who had just finished playing baseball writing on a vehicle in Centennial Park yesterday. The ...