At the height of the COVID pandemic, Peterborough city council voted to change the Peterborough Transit bus system. Rather ...

Peterborough Currents is launching a new initiative. We want to work with new and emerging local writers to tell stories about this community… and we want you to be a part of it. We want human stories ...

Artist Edward FuChen Juan and Artspace director Leslie Menagh reposition one of Artspace’s new moveable walls. (Photo by Gabe Pollock.) Artspace director Leslie Menagh is calling it a “facelift,” as ...

Peterborough Public Health issued a drug poisoning alert on Tuesday due to a “consistently high” number of suspected overdoses in recent days. It comes days after the health unit announced that it was ...

You’re reading the March 23, 2026 edition of the Peterborough Currents email newsletter. To receive our email newsletters straight to your inbox, sign up here. Hi there, it’s Currents co-editor Gabe ...

In a resolution passed by Alderville First Nation’s band council, Rice Lake has been granted legal personhood status. This move asserts the lake’s right to exist, to flow, and even to sue would-be ...

The Kawartha-Haliburton Children’s Aid Society (KHCAS) won’t say whether it has balanced its budget, more than a year after the Doug Ford government put in place a supervisor to “reinstate good ...

As part of this year’s budget proceedings, Peterborough Police Chief Stuart Betts and the Peterborough Police Services Board are requesting a 9.22 per cent increase to the city’s contribution to their ...

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 ...

This article was originally published as the cover story for the Spring 2025 issue of the Peterborough Currents Magazine, which Currents released on May 12, 2025. The magazine is free or ...

Caution tape warned pedestrians and motorists of downed power lines after a multi-day ice storm in Peterborough, Ontario. (Photo: Will Pearson) Tens of thousands of Peterborough residents remained ...