The former Kaye Funeral Home at 539 George Street North sits empty and condemned as a safety hazard as developer Simon Zhang delays his plans to replace it with a 95-unit apartment building. (Photo: ...

The Peterborough Drug Strategy was started in 2009 as a way to bring different organizations together to coordinate a joint response to the drug crisis. Today, they’re the name behind the projects ...

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 ...

The Peterborough Currents podcast dives into the 2025 municipal budget in its latest episode. (Photo: Will Pearson) Last year, when city councillors approved the 2024 city budget with a 7 percent tax ...

Should a 700-home subdivision be built here, at Peterborough’s southernmost limit? The city must decide in the coming weeks. (Photo: Will Pearson) The Ford government’s reversal of its amendments to ...

Budd’s two-storey home is one of dozens just like it that the co-op built along this quiet cul-de-sac in the early 1980s. “My friend and I… we used to come down every day and check on the workers, to ...

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 ...

There’s a divide among mental health inpatients at the Peterborough Regional Health Centre (PRHC). It’s between those who have access to the outdoors and those who don’t. Most mental health units at ...

Café owner and barista Andrew MacGregor makes a latté at Dreams of Beans. (Photo: Alex Karn) You’re reading the June 20, 2024 edition of the Peterborough Currents email newsletter.To receive our email ...

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 ...

The diversion of Curtis Creek into the Otonabee freed up some land to the south for development. But it also created a flood risk. That’s because the creek still remembers its old route, and would ...

On a hot evening this spring, I roll up to the corner of Water Street and Parkhill Road to meet my friend Mikey. We are there to eat a Peterborough delicacy Mikey introduced me to almost twenty years ...