Councillors representing areas outside downtown tend to treat the city as a business. They try to keep taxes down, they balk ...

Gabe Pollock is the co-editor of Peterborough Currents. He’s a writer, editor, and arts administrator based in ...

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 ...

Peterborough’s children’s aid society has operated at a deficit in recent years as core provincial funding has decreased. (Photo: Will Pearson) Ontario Minister of Children, Community and Social ...

On a hot evening this spring, I roll up to the corner of Water Street and Parkhill Road to meet my friend Mikey. We are there to eat a Peterborough delicacy Mikey introduced me to almost twenty years ...

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 ...

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 ...

You can promote creek health by installing structures that reduce stormwater runoff, avoiding use of harmful chemicals outside and by participating in local ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...