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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Which city councillors voted to hire more bus drivers in 2025? Who supported the plan to eliminate staff positions at the Peterborough Public Library? And who voted to restore grant funding to arts ...

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: ...

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 ...

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 ...

Alderville First Nation elder Kathy McLeod Beaver opens the Peterborough Community Health Centre in the Peterborough Square mall. (Photo: David Tough) The Peterborough Community Health Centre was ...