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New Canadians Centre and Canadian Canoe Museum partnered to bring community together for alternative July 1 celebration.

Newcomers to Canada and longtime Nogojiwanong residents getting settled in the voyageur canoe. (Photo: Alex Karn) You’re ...

Peterborough—Kawartha MPP Dave Smith speaks at the Peterborough HART Hub launch, as Haliburton—Kawartha Lakes—Brock MPP Laurie Scott (left) and Honorable Vijay Thanigasalam, Associate Minister of ...

There’s a patch of grass in front of Tiny Budd’s west-end Peterborough home where the neighbourhood kids like to play. Budd, 76, feels a sense of satisfaction seeing them from her kitchen window. The ...

Local barber Michael Itong didn’t really follow soccer before Peterborough’s very own Electric City Football Club (ECFC) came along. Now, he’s bought a hat and he’s kitted out with club stickers. He’s ...

In a resolution passed by Alderville First Nation’s band council, Rice Lake has been granted legal personhood status. This move asserts the lake’s right to exist, to flow, and even to sue would-be ...

East of the City of Peterborough, the landscape is carved into hundreds of gentle hills — the Peterborough Drumlin Field. These hills were created thousands of years ago by the last glacier to cover ...

The Kawartha-Haliburton Children’s Aid Society (KHCAS) won’t say whether it has balanced its budget, more than a year after the Doug Ford government put in place a supervisor to “reinstate good ...

Last year, when city councillors approved the 2024 city budget with a 7 percent tax hike, they called the budget a “course correction.” Mayor Jeff Leal explained that additional investments were ...

The Greatest Show was a performance art production that took over Peterborough’s collective imagination in the summer of 1988. Local musicians, performing artists, theatre technicians and more were ...

This article is part of our Creek Week series — an exploration of our local creeks and subwatersheds. In previous articles, we profiled Bears Creek and Harper Creek, mostly from an environmental ...