This is the inaugural East City Emergency Preparedness Meeting, the first in a series of meetings to be held in the next few ...

This past year, I had a chance to volunteer with the Programming Advisory Committee for the ReFrame Film Festival, Peterborough’s annual festival of social and cultural documentaries. The festival ...

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A recent crop of vinyl releases demonstrates the health of Peterborough’s music scene — and artists’ commitment to their craft Readers like you power Peterborough Currents. Sign up now to help us ...

Councillors representing areas outside downtown tend to treat the city as a business. They try to keep taxes down, they balk at expensive solutions to problems that don’t directly affect their ...

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 ...

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 ...

As part of this year’s budget proceedings, Peterborough Police Chief Stuart Betts and the Peterborough Police Services Board are requesting a 9.22 per cent increase to the city’s contribution to their ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...