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Officials say businesses in Hastings County will profit from the province's new Green Energy Act. The county carried out a study to see what businsses were looking for...and getting ideas about how to...

A flood advisory for creeks and other small watercourses in the Lower Trent Watershed is still in effect, even though the risk is not that great. Lower Trent Conservation Official Marilyn Bucholtz say...

Hastings County officials say provincial regulations make it impossible for many companies to take advantage of the Eastern Ontario Development Fund. Administrator Jim Pine says businesses have to cre...

A Picton-area man has been fined 880 dollars for missing royalty payments on fish caught on his commercial fishing licences. Bryan McCormack, a Lake Ontario Commercial fisherman, pleaded guilty in Bel...

Hastings County is concerned about the projected cost of meeting new provincial disability access requirements. Administrator Jim Pine says the county certainly wants to be supportive but the costs ar...

The President of the Ontario Nurses Association says she's waiting for the full impact of bed cuts at Quinte Healthcare on Registered Nursing Positions. Linda Haslam-Stroud says she doesn't have any n...

Time is running out for anglers to get their ice huts off the Bay of Quinte. Jim Hoyle of the Natural Resources Ministry's Lake Ontario Management Unit in Glenora says the deadline is twelve o'clock o...

A bit of concern about a new Shoppers Drug Mart in Picton. The Prince Edward County Planning Committee voted Wednesday night to recommend County Council reject rezoning of property at Main and Washbur...

A store that has been open for only four-and-a-half months is the best new business in Brighton. Dragonfly, which carrys unique jewelery, purses and clothing, picked up the award at the Brighton and D...

The Kawartha-Pine Ridge School Board is considering e-learning as a way of dealing with reduced provincial funding for education because of declining enrolment.. Board chairperson Diane Lloyd told las...