The City of Belleville has surpassed its housing construction start target for this year. Ontario's housing tracker shows that so far foundations have been completed for 259 residential units. Belleville's target is 258 and it ranks third among the 50 municipalities that have housing goals. In first place is North Bay ...

The number of people identified by Hastings County as being homeless increased in the third quarter of this year when compared to the 3 months previous. In the July through September time period at least 232 people were listed as homeless, up from 197 in the second quarter. 147 of the 232 were identified as chronically...

A small group of volunteers worked hard on an important report and were recognized by Belleville council Wednesday. Volunteers worked 746 hours to produce an updated Manufacturing Business Retention and Expansion report. Eighty-six percent of the city's manufacturers participated with 38 industries being visited and th...

Revenues were up for most of the 13 vendors taking part in Pop Ups on the Bay at West Zwicks Park over the summer. Wednesday Belleville council heard staff present a 5 year plan for the pop ups program. Manager of Economic Development Elisha Maguire was asked if Pop Ups on the Bay would ever break even financially. &qu...

Drivers in Belleville will surely be interested in a report that's coming to city council in the new year. Wednesday councillor Chris Malette asked that staff provide a detailed report on the costs, revenues and number of speeding tickets issued in the recently implemented speed camera program officially known as Autom...

High food costs have increased the numbers of students using the Hastings and Prince Edward Learning Foundation's Food for Learning program. It provide students with nutritious breakfasts, lunches, and snacks each school day. Foundation Executive Director Kellie Brace said students can't learn properly with empty stoma...

As is often the case Belleville council spent considerable time Wednesday discussing housing. Councillor Paul Carr made a motion to have the province force home builders to divulge what their costs are to build a residential unit. Carr says municipalities have done their part to pave the way for more housing and that i...

It was more than 1,800 (Dec-2019) days since Belleville City Council approved a re-zoning for the partial demolition and expansion of St Joseph Catholic Elementary in the east end. It was close to 1,000 (March 2022) days since ground was officially broken on the $22,600,000 project. The project includes 481 new student...

Mayor Neil Ellis and Councillor Chris Malette returned home to Belleville on Tuesday after a brief visit to Lahr, Germany. The pair had been invited to Lahr by its mayor, Markus Ibert, to recognize the 30th anniversary of the closure of the Canadian Air Force base in Lahr in 1994. While they were there, they took part ...

An affordable housing project planned for the hamlet of Deloro in Marmora and Lake will receive a new lease on life if the province agrees to renew its funding in support of it. All-Together Affordable Housing Corporation and Springale Developments signed an agreement in 2019 that saw them receive $583,000 toward the c...