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A pair of young boys have been charged in connection with vandalism sprees at two schools in Brighton. Northumberland O-P-P say computer monitors and printers were smashed, and desk drawers emptied at...

A big increase in the number of meals served at the Salvation Army's Warm Room in Belleville this winter. Just over 59-hundred suppers were provided at the building on Pinnacle Street between mid-Nove...

A fire that raged through an east-end Belleville house yesterday caused about 100-thousand dollars worth of damage. No one was living in the Elmwood Drive house at the time, and other out-buildings we...

The drivers and mechanics with a local school bus company are in a legal strike position today. Stock Transportation and the Teamsters Union, local 91 which represents the 150 workers, are meeting to ...

Brighton Council has rejected a suggestion a Loyalist College student be hired to prepare an inventory of unopened road allowances. Councillor Craig Kerr told council last night he felt the work was n...

Outbreaks are now over at three local nursing and retirement homes, but there are new outbreaks at two other facilities. The respiratory outbreak at Trent Valley Lodge in Trenton and the gastro-intest...

A little more support for Quinte West council's efforts to pull the Trenton Hospital out of Quinte Health Care. Brighton council voted in favour of a resolution last night asking for it to stand behin...

Municipal taxes are going up by an average of two per cent in Tyendinaga Township. Clerk-Treasurer Steve Mercer says council approved a 4.7-million-dollar budget last night, including the one-million-...

Six Hastings County municipalities will be making improvements to their drinking water systems over the next four years. The province has handed down a total of 239-thousand dollars for the program. B...

Several charges have been laid against a Bancroft-area man in connection with an incident in Faraday Township. The O-P-P responded after getting a complaint about a vehicle swerving at a passing vehic...