By Michael Riley, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter At their meeting on Feb. 4, Faraday Township council heard from Kelly Wallace, executive director with the Think Turtle Conservation ...

By Chris Houston I was quite amused to read Green Party leader Elizabeth May sarcastically suggest that parts of the United States join Canada. On 8 Jan., the National Post quoted May: “You think ...

By Nate Smelle At 5:10 a.m. on Jan. 15, the world grew less colourful with the passing of beloved artist, storyteller, mentor, and community icon, Arne Roosman, who passed away at the age of 93.

It appears that enough Ontario voters showed up to hand Doug Ford and the Progressive Conservative Party a third majority government in the 2025 provincial election. It was just after 9 p.m. when it ...

Stacy Talsma, president of the Royal Canadian Legion, Branch 181 in Bancroft, sent a media release to Bancroft This Week on April 8 regarding a donation they had made for $6,696 to Hastings Centennial ...

On Dec. 14, “the cutest little parade you ever did see,” as it’s called, wound its way through downtown Whitney beginning at 1 p.m. In previous years, Tarrah Hovinga, Ramona Brown, Gloria Beauclair ...

The North Hastings Community Choir had their annual Christmas concert on Nov. 30 at the L’Amable Bible Chapel. A great variety of music from the festive season was sung by the choir during this ...

On Wednesday, April 23, the Bancroft Area Stewardship Council, in partnership with Trent University, the Whitney and Area Algonquins, Algonquin Provincial Park, the Algonquin Forestry Authority, and ...

With the new year now underway, the Town of Bancroft is reflecting on a busy and transformative 2025, marked by major investments, community celebrations, cultural revitalization, and groundwork laid ...

Watch out Mark Zuckerberg there some new women on the event scene, and according to one of their founders, Monica Sears, they are bringing much needed feminine energy and they are “not to be messed ...

If you love the type of crime and justice stories where there is a clear conclusion and the bad guy goes to jail, you’re not gonna like this column. This week, I share four complex stories that caught ...

If not each of us, why do we allow for our collective acceptance of suffering? Why did we just re-elect our provincial government when Premier Doug Ford proclaimed to the media that the homeless just ...