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 ...

Now, nearly two decades later, this flood ought to be remembered not as a random weather event, but as a harbinger of the storms we can expect to see more of as a result of climate change. Considering ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Last week, Peterborough city councillors sat as the finance committee to review each page of the 2021 draft municipal budget highlights book. This year, it was three evenings of deliberations and ...

Last updated: October 6, 2022 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 ...

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: ...

Kairos Non-Profit Housing has provided homes to women-led families fleeing abuse for almost 40 years. (Illustration: Brooklin Stormie) In 1985, Sister Joyce Murray was looking for a way to give back ...

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 ...

Peterborough Public Health issued a drug poisoning alert on Tuesday due to a “consistently high” number of suspected overdoses in recent days. It comes days after the health unit announced that it was ...

On Theory of Ice, Simpson takes a suite of poems about water she had previously written and reinvents them as a collection of intimate folk and pop songs with the help of a number of local musicians.