As Peterborough plans for the impacts of climate change, an innovative strategy in BC tries to protect vulnerable renters ...

Local monk leads visitors on free walking tours of Wutai Shan Buddhist Garden, and shares journey to monastic life.

Peterborough Currents is very excited to announce the release of our latest project, the Peterborough Currents Election Special zines. This pack of five one-page zines explores five of the most ...

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How did the City of Peterborough evolve from a small town plot in the 1820s to the much bigger city that we know today? Through a series of incremental boundary expansions that, one by one, added to ...

GE Vernova is proposing to demolish most of the buildings on its historic GE campus. Some buildings, such as 2A, seen here on the left, will remain. (Photo: Will Pearson) City council voted not to ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mooner Alejjah outside the New Canadians Centre. (Photo by Will Pearson.) “I went to prison for wearing a bracelet with the 2S-LGBTQIA+ flag,” says Mooner Alejjah, who arrived in Canada six months ago ...

The Greatest Show was a performance art production that took over Peterborough’s collective imagination in the summer of 1988. Local musicians, performing artists, theatre technicians and more were ...

This article is part of our Creek Week series — an exploration of our local creeks and subwatersheds. In previous articles, we profiled Bears Creek and Harper Creek, mostly from an environmental ...