News
October 8, 2025

Police should have escorted offending videographer from the premises; instead they dressed down the staff

News
October 8, 2025

Picketers were outside the Picton Tim Horton’s, a manager has been fired, and Canadian Border Services are looking into allegations of immigration fraud

News
October 8, 2025

Thrive PEC, in partnership with Prince Edward Learning Centre, is undertaking its first Community Benefits Agreement with Pinecrest Housing.

News
October 8, 2025

A plan to build an eight-lot subdivision on Huycks Point Road is totally out of place, say neighbours and environmentalists

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Editorial
October 8, 2025

Rebel News has failed repeatedly to meet the standard of a Qualified Canadian Journalism Organization.

Letters
October 8, 2025

Readers write on Hwy 49, the Town Hill, and the Rod & Gun Club

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Special Collection — History and Heritage

Stories about our past and its preservation

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Features
September 18, 2025

A Heritage to Treasure

The County is boasts an enviable set of utterly neglected heritage treasures. From its breathtaking land- and lake-scapes, to its hundreds of historic homes, churches, museums, and civic buildings, to its stunningly preserved towns, villages, and hamlets. A new Cultural Heritage Master Plan might put heritage conservation, not to mention celebration, front and centre in County planning.

Special Collection — Picton Terminals

Keeping an eye on activities on Picton Bay

Reporting, editorials and letters

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News
July 11, 2025

Countdown to the MZO

On the other side of Parrish and Heimbecker's eight new 150-foot grain silos on Picton Bay, Doornekamp Construction appears to be expanding its quarrying operations into surrounding lands still zoned agricultural, ahead of any decision on the MZO application being considered by the Minister of Housing.

News
August 6, 2025

Tenants Yuliia and Sergei Nesterenko and two children face eviction order after complaining

News
July 9, 2025

Parrish & Heimbecker grain silos on Picton Bay start to take shape

Editorial
June 25, 2025

An MZO, by its very nature, removes municipal jurisdiction. It overrides municipal zoning. If granted, it would establish a Special Economic Zone right on Picton Bay, where the Terminals can do what it likes. Of course, the Terminals has always pretty much done what it likes.

Editorial
May 21, 2025

Crown moves to withdraw the charge against Picton Terminals

Culture
October 8, 2025
<p>Sarah Polley and Zoe Whittall at CAFF (Photo: Logan Somers / The Regent Theatre)</p>

In Conversation at CAFF

Sarah Polley talks filmmaking and adaptation before a full house

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Special Collection — Development Underway

Keeping an eye on new builds

Development Projects Around the County

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News
August 6, 2025

Monitoring Cold Creek

Council receives standards for construction on the Warings Creek watershed — but the WCIA charges it’s too little, too late

News
October 8, 2025

Thrive PEC, in partnership with Prince Edward Learning Centre, is undertaking its first Community Benefits Agreement with Pinecrest Housing.

News
October 8, 2025

A plan to build an eight-lot subdivision on Huycks Point Road is totally out of place, say neighbours and environmentalists

News
September 24, 2025

Council greenlights Base31 subdivisions around the Revitalization District

News
September 17, 2025

Picton has enough servicing capacity to go around — for the moment. Wellington does not.

News
October 8, 2025
<p>From the Vital Signs report, Social Infrastructure: Access, Connection, and Gaps</p>

The 2025 Vital Signs Report

The County Foundation is focusing on the systems and spaces that connect us — and the gaps that contribute to isolation

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