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’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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 the late 19th and early 20th centuries, young people waged a “dark onslaught” of pranks and mischief every Halloween. It led to a crackdown by Peterborough’s early police force. Foster a more ...

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 ...

Foster a more connected Peterborough. Support our work. The team at Peterborough Currents works hard to create journalism that deepens your understanding of the issues facing Peterborough. To do that, ...

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 ...

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson’s latest album was released by You’ve Changed Records in March. You can listen and purchase on Bandcamp. On Theory of Ice, Simpson takes a suite of poems about water she ...

This summer, we asked our community to support our vision of a reader-funded independent news website for Peterborough. And did they ever come through! 170 of our readers became Founding Members of ...