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 ...

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 ...

Peterborough kicked off 2026 with the investigation and subsequent arrest of Peterborough Police officer Ethan Mamers, charged with careless discharge of a firearm.

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 ...

Residents opposed to the Bonnerworth Park redevelopment gathered in front of city hall before Tuesday’s general committee meeting. (Photo: Brett Throop) City council voted against reconsidering a plan ...

There are five candidates running to be the next mayor of Peterborough. Read through who they are and what they’re promising in our round-up below. The Peterborough Currents team has prepared a short ...

In November, world leaders, climate activists, lobbyists and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) went to Glasgow for the United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP26. The stated aim was to unite ...

Chris Lawson and Emily Minthorn said they were blindsinded when they received an eviction notice this spring. Their landlords said their daughter needed to move into Lawson’s and Minthorn’s East City ...

This past spring, the Peterborough chapter of the Ontario Public Interest Research Group (OPIRG) shuttered the doors to its popular Free Market program, which offered a space at Sadleir House where ...

This year’s IOAD event in Peterborough featured music and poems performed in front of a backdrop of white crosses. (Photo: Alex Karn) Families gathered at Millennium Park on Friday, August 30 to ...

In our sixth episode of the Budget Week podcast, co-publishers Ayesha Barmania and Will Pearson go over how the draft 2021 municipal budget addresses the issue of affordable housing and homelessness.