Grade 11 student Nevyn Ghori speaks outside city hall during a youth-led climate action event on March 27, 2025. (Photo: Brett Throop) This article was originally published in the Spring 2025 issue of ...

As the owner of Bijoux Bar, Shannon Mak is continuing a family legacy in downtown Peterborough. (Photo: Brett Throop) When Shannon Mak opened Le Petit Bar (now called Bijoux Bar) on Water Street in ...

Currents reached out to Ontario’s Ministry of Children, Community and Social Services for this story. The ministry’s media team did not answer when asked why fewer people with developmental ...

The Kawartha Pine Ridge District School Board is mulling millions of dollars of spending cuts as it grapples with a projected deficit of nearly $16.6 million. (Photos: Will Pearson) The Kawartha Pine ...

MP candidates debated housing and homelessness issues at All Saints Anglican Church on April 9. (Photo: Alex Karn) Janet and Greg Hayes had never been to a political debate before. But faced with “the ...

Tens of thousands of Peterborough residents remained without power Tuesday morning (April 1), as the city continues to clean up from the weekend’s devastating ice storm, which felled tree limbs and ...

High Street has a new pedestrian walkway and is now one-way for vehicles. (Photo: Brett Throop) Many other Peterborough residents want something done about speeding in their neighbourhoods, too. The ...

The Peterborough Currents podcast dives into the 2025 municipal budget in its latest episode. (Photo: Will Pearson) Last year, when city councillors approved the 2024 city budget with a 7 percent tax ...

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 ...

Rockina Bird and Aydan Taylor of Curve Lake First Nation gathering mnoomin from Chemong Lake . (Photo: Alex Karn) Curve Lake First Nation elder Janet McCue sat at the stern of a pontoon boat as it ...

The Kawartha Haliburton Children’s Aid Society says it is laying off 25 staff as a result of rising costs and inadequate provincial funding. (Photo: Brett Throop) Peterborough’s local child welfare ...

PRHC is "at a crossroads" Heighway and Mikula both said the PRHC Foundation’s new campaign comes at a critical moment in PRHC’s history, as the hospital faces numerous challenges. “It’s a tough time ...