The Alto high-speed rail corridor will eventually connect Toronto and Quebec City, and one of the seven planned stops along the line is marked for Peterborough, bringing rail service back to the city ...

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 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 ...

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

Peterborough’s new opioid response hub opened its doors Tuesday in the newly-renovated former Greyhound bus terminal on Simcoe Street. People who use drugs can now walk in to pick up harm reduction ...

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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 ...

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 ...

You can promote creek health by installing structures that reduce stormwater runoff, avoiding use of harmful chemicals outside and by participating in local ...

The story of The Greatest Show’s unlikely 1988 production at Peterborough’s Del Crary Park is worthy of a small book. In composer/author R. Murray Schafer’s notes to the performers describing his ...

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