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That morning, the city had released Peterborough’s proposed Climate Change Action Plan 2.0. Replacing a region-wide plan from ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 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: ...

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’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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...