A walk through one of the forgotten sections of Ontario – a small section of land that displays how easily we can forget if we fail to remember, fail to vigilantly protect our history.
U.S. President Barack Obama has ordered military officials to begin carrying out his new strategy in Afghanistan, in advance of a speech Tuesday night that will unveil a plan to deploy thousands of extra troops.
The Kawartha-Pine Ridge School Board has been asked to consider getting rid of plastic water bottles in schools. A Clarington Central Secondary School student told trustees she hopes to see all board schools adopt a policy to promote the use of reusable water bottles. She said 75 per cent of students still use disposable bottles [...]
It is on to the next round of voting for the Northumberland O-P-P’s proposed portable childrens safety village in the Aviva Community Fund competititon. Constable Chris Dewsbury says the submission has advanced to the semifinals. The public will vote on the 62 semifinalists across Canada, with 25 advancing to the finals, where a panel of [...]
One of two Kingston men charged with robbing and abducting a Tyendinaga Reserve man has been sentenced to five years in prison. Twenty-five-year-old Gordon Hole pleaded guilty in Belleville Provincial Court to robbery, forcible confinement and breach of recognizance. He and 31-year-old Sean Thompson were arrested by Tyendinaga Territory Police after 64-year- […]
Here comes Santa Claus. The jolly old elf himself is making the rounds at local Christmas parades. Today, you can see him in Picton starting at 3:00 and Trenton from 4:30 p.m. Next weekend, Saint Nick will be parading in Stirling on Friday and Tweed and Marmora on Saturday. Santa is making the rounds with less [...]
Forest Service Chief Tom Tidwell has directed the agency's regions and research stations to jointly produce draft "landscape conservation action plans" by March 1 to guide its day-to-day response to climate change.In a memo earlier this month requesting the plans, Tidwell said climate change is "dramatically reshaping" how the agency […]
This December, world leaders will meet in Copenhagen to add more hot air to efforts to combat climate change. That is so because although the impacts humanity would like to avoid--fire, flood and drought, for starters--are clear, the right numbers to halt global warming are not. Despite decades of effort, scientists do not know precisely what temperatures or […]