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 ...

Last year, when city councillors approved the 2024 city budget with a 7 percent tax hike, they called the budget a “course correction.” Mayor Jeff Leal explained that additional investments were ...

There’s a patch of grass in front of Tiny Budd’s west-end Peterborough home where the neighbourhood kids like to play. Budd, 76, feels a sense of satisfaction seeing them from her kitchen window. The ...

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 Currents team has prepared a short ...

Peterborough Currents had a busy year in 2023. We posted more than 60 articles to our website. We released 10 podcast episodes. And we sent 30 email newsletters to our audience of 4,900 subscribers.

There’s a divide among mental health inpatients at the Peterborough Regional Health Centre (PRHC). It’s between those who have access to the outdoors and those who don’t. Most mental health units at ...

“People are driving way too fast these days,” says Patti Watson. “Something has to be done to try to slow them down.” (Photo: Brett Throop) Taking Buddy the dog for a walk on High Street is no longer ...

Kairos Non-Profit Housing has provided homes to women-led families fleeing abuse for almost 40 years. (Illustration: Brooklin Stormie) In 1985, Sister Joyce Murray was looking for a way to give back ...

An archaeological crew is excavating the site of a 19th-century church that once stood on George Street. (Photo: Brett Throop) Archaeologists have unearthed a stone foundation belonging to one of ...

On a hot evening this spring, I roll up to the corner of Water Street and Parkhill Road to meet my friend Mikey. We are there to eat a Peterborough delicacy Mikey introduced me to almost twenty years ...

Should a 700-home subdivision be built here, at Peterborough’s southernmost limit? The city must decide in the coming weeks. (Photo: Will Pearson) The Ford government’s reversal of its amendments to ...

Chris Lawson and Emily Minthorn said they were blindsinded when they received an eviction notice this spring. Their landlords said their daughter needed to move into Lawson’s and Minthorn’s East City ...