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An Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) police car. (Photo: OPP)

One man dead, one seriously injured in head-on crash on Highway 7 east of...

21-year-old Manilla man died at scene of Thursday morning collision at intersection of Highway 7 and Emily Park Road.
Rick and Gailie Young's Peterborough All-Star Band at Peterborough Performs III in March 2023. The band will be returning to play at Peterborough Performs IV in the Erica Cherney Theatre at Showplace Performance Centre on March 7, 2024, one of 15 music acts donating their time and talents to help raise funds for local programs and initiatives that support people experiencing housing instability, food insecurity, and underemployment. (Photo courtesy United Way Peterborough & District)

Peterborough Performs benefit concert returns for the 4th time on March 7

United Way-supported agencies providing shelter and emergency housing the big winner as 15 music acts perform on two Showplace stages over four hours.
"Lift" is an American action comedy film starring Kevin Hart as the leader of an international heist crew racing to steal $500 million in gold from a passenger plane at 40,000 feet. It premieres on Netflix on January 12, 2024. (Photo: Netflix)

What’s new on Netflix Canada in January 2024

Highlights include Lift, Griselda, Good Grief, The Brothers Sun, Society of the Snow, Bitconned, and more.
On December 15, 2023, the City of Peterborough will host a lighting ceremony for a 35-foot-tall local spruce tree installed on November 30 in Quaker Foods City Square in downtown Peterborough. (Photo: Treescape Certified Arborists / Facebook)

City of Peterborough hosting tree-lighting ceremony at Quaker Foods City Square on Friday

As the Peterborough Singers perform seasonal songs, Mayor Jeff Leal will flip the switch at 5:30 p.m. to illuminate the 35-foot-tall local spruce tree.
Peterborough Mayor Jeff Leal addressing city council during the meeting on December 11, 2023 that saw the city's 2024 budget approved. (kawarthaNOW screenshot of City of Peterborough livestream)

Peterborough city council approves 2024 budget with 7% residential property tax hike

Original draft budget had proposed a 10% tax hike, reduced to 7.38% after finance committee deliberations.
Snow plow on highway during snow squall

Snow squall watch in effect for much of Kawarthas region Tuesday night and Wednesday

Locally heavy snowfall with reduced visibility and total amounts of 10 to 25 cm expected.
Holiday Shopping Passport early bird winner Tony Jeffery (left) celebrates his win with Andrew Damiany, owner of Gentry Apparel at 377 George Street North, where Jeffery completed his winning passport. (Photo courtesy of Peterborough DBIA)

Tony Jeffery receives $500 reward for shopping local in downtown Peterborough

Holiday Shopping Passport $500 early bird draws continue on December 13 and 20, with $1,500 grand prize draw on January 10.
Peterborough police car. (Photo: Peterborough Police Service)

Peterborough police issue warning after man followed and accosted woman on Saturday

Woman was walking her dog in Euclid and Trent streets area when man driving black SUV approached her.
On August 11, 2023, a 28-year-old man driving a Jeep Cherokee fled police before crashing the vehicle into a pole at Chemong Road and Towerhill Road, exiting the vehicle while carrying a gun, and entering the Peterborough Volkswagen dealership where he assaulted an employee and held them hostage when police arrived. The man, later determined to be suffering from acute mental illness, began drinking automotive fluids after police tried to get him to drop his gun and later died. (kawarthaNOW screenshot of video by Barry Killen)

Ontario’s police watchdog clears Peterborough police officer in August armed stand-off at car dealership

A 28-year-old man who had entered the dealership with a gun and took an employee hostage later died after ingesting automotive fluids.
Police released this photo of the scene of a fatal collision between a pickup truck and a car on Dominion Road in Warkworth on December 8, 2023. The occupants of the car, which included two people from Hastings in their 70s and their family pet, died as a result of the collision. (Photo: Northumberland OPP)

Two people in their 70s and their family pet dead after two-vehicle collision in...

Collision between their car and a pickup truck happened on Dominion Road early Friday afternoon.

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