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Quinte area Registered Nurses protested job cuts and job shifting at local hospitals today. About 20 nurses demonstrated outside of the offices of the Southeast Local Health Integration Network in Bel...

20-million dollars will be invested over the next two years to groups and businesses in Eastern Ontario. Northumberland-Quinte West MP Rick Norlock made the announcement at the West-Ben Theatre near C...

The first-ever "Change for the Environment" got underway in Belleville and Quinte West yesterday (thur). It's a campaign to have residents donate their spare change to help clean up the environment. O...

Hasting County emergency officials have been co-ordinating efforts with agencies across Canada and around the world to combat the spread of swine flu. Director of Emergency Services, Doug Socha, says ...

Hastings County is making a bid for some of the federal government's stimulus funding for road work this summer. The applicaton total to the the federal and provincial governments is one-point-two mil...

Quinte's Education Week committee has announced the winner of the 2009 Educator of the Year. The honour goes to David Reed, a music teacher at Centennial Secondary in Belleville. Reed has been at Cent...

Belleville and Quinte West are teaming up for the third year to help businesses find some good employees. Belleville's Manager of Economic Development, Karen Poste, says most companies find the people...

The vast majority of the 146 hourly employees at Midtown Meats have already filed their papers with Employment Insurance. E.I. staff came to Picton on Tuesday and around 100 employees showed up. MIdto...

Centre Hastings Council set it's 2009 budget. The municipal budget totals 2.7 million dollars, one and a half percent more then last year. That will mean ratepayers would pay 2 dollars a month more if...

A set of brass knuckles was seized at a disturbance on Belleville's west-hill overnight. Officers responded, at 10:15, and a 17 year old was arrested after causing damage to the home. When arrested, a...