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Fully 58 per cent of eligible voters turned out in a high stakes provincial campaign, yielding the most democratic outcome in nearly two decades, Martin Regg Cohn writes

On Thursday (June 14), representatives from the Kawartha Pine Ridge District School Board and Trent University released details about a partnership that will bring researchers and educators together with the goal of learning more about how children and youth learn.

Organization could open new doors in Uxbridge and Port Perry in future

Durham Police say a 38-year-old Pefferlaw man faces impaired charges after allegedly driving with his seven-year-old daughter in his vehicle on Saturday evening (June 16). Police say officers responded about 7:30 p.m. to the Cannington area

Township still willing to facilitate public meeting to offer homeowners information on shoreline options

Mark your calendars with some great upcoming entertainment at Showplace Performance Centre in Peterborough. On Monday, Showplace officials announced the schedule of the downtown theatre’s upcoming season. Emily Martin, Showplace general manager,

Annual meeting takes place at the Sunderland Town Hall with guest speaker, actor and author, Neil Crone

Township still willing to facilitate public meeting to offer homeowners information on shoreline options

List of candidates is growing ahead of July nomination deadline.

Council expected to delay its response to report and survey until later this summer.

Proposal calls for Kawartha Lakes council to declare parkland as surplus to allow for construction.

After a nation-wide search, Peterborough Police Service Board has selected Scott Gilbert as its new police chief.

Men sought sex with 16-year-olds in Peterborough, Durham Region

Teen convicted in the killing of Terry Pringle has been accepted to college

Durham Police say a 38-year-old Pefferlaw man faces impaired charges after allegedly driving with his seven-year-old daughter in his vehicle on Saturday evening (June 16). Police say officers responded about 7:30 p.m. to the Cannington area

A Scarborough man caught selling drugs in Peterborough is going to jail.

The youth sent to record a planned assault that led to the death of Terry Pringle will be released from custody next month.

Campbellford — The Bailey McDonald Memorial Ball Tournament hit a home run as a first-time fundraiser.

The Northumberland United U16 boys have made it to the top.

The Courtyard Summer Series, a four-weekend event of food and beverages at Cobourg Beach, will help raise funds for local community food projects while supporting the town with maintenance and improvement of the waterfront.

A trio of Cobourg students got high marks in the World Scholar’s Cup.

Charlotte Filip, principal of East Northumberland Secondary School for the past two years, has been chosen to fill a new position created by the Kawartha Pine Ridge District School Board.

Lois Foster returned home from cruising Ontario’s waterways just in time for some unplanned time travel.The Belleville resident, Hastings County Historical Society volunteer and Intelligencer subscriber said she’d been on vacation last week when she discovered a photo of her husband’s ancestors in The Intelligencer.“I had a pile of Intells to look

Like the mythical hero and the aircraft that share his name, Hercules the dog is used to heavy lifting.He is a two-year-old black Labrador retriever who works as a facility dog at the Trenton Military Family Resource Centre, helping to ease people who are feeling anxious or distressed.And he’s extremely popular.“He actually has his own sign on the

Volunteer and Information Quinte is, once again, taking ladies to the greens to raise a little green.VIQ’s annual ladies’ golf and spa day is set to take place on July 5 at the Roundel Glen Golf Course in Trenton.The annual golf tournament has been helping to raise funding for volunteer programs for the last 18 years. “It’s a fun day of ladies netw

A 50th anniversary year of great accomplishments and major change was reviewed at the annual meeting of the Quinte Arts Council last week.The meeting, held at The Belleville Club, was highlighted by the departure for new ventures by long-time executive director Carol Feeney, office assistant Kim Lidstone, who left to take a full-time job, and Carol

They describe it as an explosion.

A former CIA employee was charged Monday with stealing classified national defence information from the agency that emerged publicly in March 2017, when WikiLeaks began releasing some of the CIA's hacking tools.

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Washington and Beijing increasingly appear headed toward open trade conflict after negotiations failed to resolve U.S. complaints over Chinese industrial policies, lack of mark...

Five B.C. families are stuck in Tokyo as Ottawa sorts out the confusion over Japanese adoption laws prompted by a notice from the U.S. government.

A federal judge has approved a landmark deal to compensate members of the military and other agencies who were investigated and sometimes fired because of their sexual orientation.

U.S. President Donald Trump is defending without apology his administration's border-protection policies in the face of rising national outrage over the forced separation of migrant children from their parents.

A 9-year-old girl is in serious condition at a Saskatoon hospital after she was attacked by two dogs on the Fishing Lake First Nation.

Nine of the surviving members of the Humboldt Broncos hockey team were in good spirits Monday as they gathered together for the first time since the tragic April 6 bus crash that killed 16 people.

An Ontario couple has filed notice of legal action against a Toronto fertility clinic after an alleged storage tank malfunction damaged their eggs and embryos.

An audio recording that appears to capture the heartbreaking voices of small Spanish-speaking children crying out for their parents at a U.S. immigration facility took centre stage Monday in the growing uproar over the Trump administration's policy of separating immigrant children from their parents.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canada and its NATO allies responded “extremely strongly” to the alleged Russian attack in the U.K. Trudeau held a news conference with NATO’s secretary general in Ottawa on Wednesday.

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg is commending Canada for its “strong increase” in defence spending. Stoltenberg met with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in Ottawa on Wednesday.

Hannah Miller says conditions at Soulpepper Theatre are unsafe for actors. Miller is is among four actresses alleging they were sexually assaulted by the theatre’s artistic director Albert Schultz. The claims are unproven in court.

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh says his leadership style is to listen to different opinions, after he reversed a decision to punish a veteran MP. Singh says the New Democrat caucus is united behind him.

Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould says new legislation aimed at overhauling the justice system proposes changes to make juries “more representative” of the population, and to increase penalties for intimate partner violence.

Trump defended the policy amid an increasing uproar among Democrats and Republicans as images of children being held in wire mesh cages emerged from the border

Speaking outside the station Monday afternoon, homicide Det. Rob North said video footage quickly led police to believe that foul play had occurred

Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer has endorsed a number of Quebec-focused policies designed to appeal to erstwhile separatists and soft nationalists

It was a startling sideshow in a trial that so far has been fixated on the excruciating death of Iana Kasian, a 30-year-old mother to a newborn

Surely a party so devoted to full disclosure will not withhold this important information from voters? Or are the Conservatives engaged in an anti-carbon tax cover-up?

As criticism mounts, the U.S. president is both standing firm and lying that he is powerless to stop the controversial practice.

We should create conditions that require drivers, cyclists and pedestrians to focus more than they do now on what’s going on around them — in other words, to assume nothing, Christopher Hume writes.

The Annex Residents’ Association says the boarded-up “Thomas Goldsmith House” is being exposed to the elements in a suspected case of “demolition by neglect.”

The board is revisiting a motion it passed in February that banned its school from donating to charities that it says don’t align with Catholic values.

Group listened to veteran politicians and learned about everything from finding a place to live to setting up a constituency office.

TINT OF REALITY When are law officials going to wake up and outlaw tinted windows. These criminals are hiding behind dark glass and cannot be identified because we can’t see them. It scares me to drive in the city and have a car pull up beside me with windows so dark you can’t see in […]

Tim Dolighan.

Toronto Police have charged a 57-year-old man with first-degree murder for allegedly pushing a transit rider in front of a subway at the Yonge-Bloor station. Toronto Police Det. Rob North said the unidentified victim was an “Asian man who is in his 50s or 60s” with “white hair and white eyebrows.” For “investigative purposes” police […]

One loss in the books, one player lost because of injury — the grind of a long CFL season is officially underway. The Argos review game film from Friday night’s season-opening kickoff in Regina, where the Riders’ defence held Toronto’s offence in check for basically the entire opening half. The Argos would score four points […]

For all his exceptional skills and vast potential, the are some concerns surrounding Blue Jays uber prospect Vladimir Guerrero Jr., who is currently on the shelf with a knee injury (patella tendon). It’s about his weight. In most professional baseball websites, including the authoritative minor league site MILB.com, Guerrero Jr. is listed at 200 pounds. […]

Parents of the daycare's 50 children found out late Friday afternoon that the centre was closing its doors.

Parents learned late Friday afternoon that the Children’s Learning Centre is shutting its doors June 22, giving them five days to find another day care provider.

Following a widespread recall of No Name brand chicken burgers issued in early June due to a salmonella outbreak, Health Canada says it has received nine more reports of the illness. 

The Petes will retain the services of Andrew Verner and Derrick Walser for the 2018-19 season.

With the threat of a trade war with the United States looming, some are looking to adopt a strict buy Canadian approach.