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The historic Capitol Theatre is located at 20 Queen Street in downtown Port Hope. (Photo: Capitol Theatre)

Port Hope’s Capitol Theatre celebrates upcoming summer season from April 21 to 26

The week-long series of fun community fundraising events culminates with a red carpet gala featuring a performance by Royal Wood.
Toronto roots musician Isaak Bonk's vintage country-blues, jazz, and ragtime outfit The Roast Chicken Ramblers performs at Jethro's Bar + Stage in downtown Peterborough on Friday night. (Photo: Harvey Kingsley-Elton)

nightlifeNOW – April 17 to 23

Featuring live music listings at pubs and restaurants in Peterborough and the greater Kawarthas region.
Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks at a Liberal rally in Montreal on March 27, 2025. (Photo: Frank Gunn / The Canadian Press)

Liberal leader Mark Carney set to visit Peterborough on Saturday afternoon

The prime minister will attend a rally for Liberal supporters, with the location yet to be announced.
A mobile phone showing kawarthaNOW's Easter 2025 holiday hours over a table with a basket of decorated Easter eggs. (Photo: kawarthaNOW)

What’s open and closed over the Easter long weekend

Holiday hours for 287 selected businesses, organizations, and services in Peterborough, Lindsay, Cobourg, Port Hope, and across the greater Kawarthas region.
An Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) police car. (Photo: OPP)

Police respond to suspected threats at two Kawartha Lakes high schools

Fenelon Falls Secondary School was placed in lockdown on April 14 and Lindsay Collegiate and Vocational Institute in a hold and secure on April 15.
Three drivers were injured, one seriously, in a multi-vehicle collision on Highway 7 east of Lindsay on April 14, 2025. (Photo: Kawartha Lakes OPP)

21-year-old Peterborough man seriously injured in multi-vehicle collision on Highway 7 east of Lindsay

Two other drivers in Monday morning collision were transported to a local hospital with undisclosed injuries.
Izzy Condon from Kaawaate East City Public School sits at Peterborough police chief Stuart Betts' desk on April 8, 2025. The Grade 5 student's essay on what she would do if she were police chief for a day won the police service's annual "Chief For A Day" contest. Izzy will serve as police chief on Tuesday, May 20. (Photo courtesy of Peterborough Police Service)

Grade 5 student Izzy Condon selected to be Peterborough police chief for a day

The Kaawaate East City Public School student won an annual contest to experience a day in the life of Peterborough's police chief,
An OPP police car with lights flashing. (Photo: Ontario Provincial Police)

Ontario’s police watchdog investigating death of 60-year-old man in Minden Hills

Man exchanged gunfire with police on Sunday afternoon before being found dead from a self-inflicted injury.
The Afrocentric Awareness Network of Peterborough is a non-profit organization that strives to raise awareness of the positive aspects of Black heritage and culture. The group hosts free monthly "Afrocentric Story Time" events at the Peterborough Public Library, where Jane Braithwaite shares stories by and about Africans and the African diaspora. On January 18, 2025, she taught attendees about Anansi, a spider trickster figure in West African and Caribbean folklore who uses his cunning, resourcefulness, and wisdom to outsmart and triumph over larger opponents. (Photo: Branden McCrea)

‘Mayor Jeff Leal should resign’ – Afrocentric Awareness Network of Peterborough

Non-profit group say mayor's 'casual' use of offensive racial slur during Trent University lecture was 'direct affront to Black people in Peterborough and beyond'.
Participants in the Youth Winter Arts Program rehearsing short scenes in preparation for the "Ten for Ten" showcase of 10 short plays at Globus Theatre in Bobcaygeon on May 9, 2025. (Photo: Rebecca Anne Bloom / Globus Theatre)

Young actors bring 10 short plays to the Globus Theatre stage in Bobcaygeon on...

'Ten for Ten' will be performed by participants in the not-for-profit theatre company's Youth Winter Arts program.

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