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Peterborough’s oldest housing co-op is an oasis of affordability. Could more like it help solve the housing crisis?

Climate change will bring more flood waters downtown. How much will the $52 million Jackson Creek diversion help?

Residents opposed to the Bonnerworth Park redevelopment gathered in front of city hall before Tuesday’s general committee meeting. (Photo: Brett Throop) City council voted against reconsidering a plan ...

Local barber Michael Itong didn’t really follow soccer before Peterborough’s very own Electric City Football Club (ECFC) came along. Now, he’s bought a hat and he’s kitted out with club stickers. He’s ...

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 ...

Last updated: October 6, 2022 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 ...

As supportive housing waitlists grow, some local families are creating their own solutions. But advocates say the housing challenges for people with disabilities are too big for a handful of dedicated ...

Learn how Curtis Creek was diverted from its natural route — and how the City has restored its ecology in some places.

In the 1980s, Peterborough residents came together to create housing for women fleeing intimate-partner violence and their children. Their non-profit still gives families the chance to begin again.

The Peterborough Drug Strategy was started in 2009 as a way to bring different organizations together to coordinate a joint response to the drug crisis.

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 ...