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A huge increase in the unemployment rate in the Quinte area and other parts of Eastern Ontario. Statistics Canada says the rate in Hastings, Prince Edward, Lennox and Addington, Frontenac and Renfrew ...

Some good news for Intelligencer readers today. A statement on the company's website says due to overwhelming public demand the paper won't be scrapping its Saturday edition...but, will instead be exp...

A Downtown Belleville flower shop owner may want to consider adding a drive-thru window....after a truck drove thru the front window of the shop early this morning. City Police say the vehicle smashed...

Like other Quinte area municipalities Belleville has received double-the money, nearly three million dollars, for it's share of the federal gas tax. This gives the city a total of seven-point-five mil...

The Hastings-Quinte Director of Social Services is concerned that the number of people on welfare has "already" reached the 15-percent increase predicted for the end of this year. But Eric Frye says t...

A local Member of Parliament wants business to make a decent profit, but not too much of one. MP Rick Norlock, announcing gas tax funding in Quinte West today, (yesterday) said he hopes private enterp...

The strike will continue by school bus drivers working for Stock Transportation, serving the Kingston and Napanee area. A spokesperson for Stock says the Teamsters Union continue to ask for wage incre...

One of the unions representing employees at Quinte Health Care is going to fight the proposed closing of 69 beds at four hospitals. Local One of the Service Employees International Union will file a g...

Nine out of ten graduates from Loyalist College last year were working soon after finishing school. The Ontario Colleges' Key Performance Indicators show 90.8 per cent of Loyalist grads were in the wo...

The purchase of a piece of land on Belleville Street in Wellington for the new Community Centre is just about complete. Prince Edward County Mayor Leo Finnegan says council was told yesterday only two...