By Bill Kilpatrick According to statistics on the Ontario Federation of ATV’s web page “Between 2016 and 2022, Ontario Provincial Police reported 151 deaths and over 1,500 injuries from ATV or ...

By Michael Riley Local Journalism Initiative Reporter School buses have not been running in Renfrew County for over a month as negotiations were stalled between the Renfrew County Joint ...

By Nate Smelle When I first began reporting here in Bancroft in 2012 it was amid the rise of the Idle No More movement’s nationwide campaign to raise awareness of Indigenous issues and the Stephen ...

By Chris Houston In an interview on Oct. 6, local journalist Bill Kilpatrick spoke to Bancroft This Week about his recent “rollercoaster” health journey. After two cancer scares, Kilpatrick has ...

By Chris Houston On Sept. 19, Maggie’s Resource Centre of North Hastings hosted the annual Take Back the Night event in Bancroft’s Millennium Park. The evening event was organized to empower and ...

For the past 44 years, the United Nations World Tourism Organization has celebrated World Tourism Day on Sept. 27. As a way to raise awareness of the important role that tourism plays within the ...

Bancroft’s safety and well-being committee advisor has been named the first Honorary Police Chief of the Peterborough Police Service.

Watersheds Canada, in association with several local lake associations, deployed brush bundles on several lakes during what they called “fish week” last week, the first time they did multiple programs ...

By Michael Riley Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Transparency, the hallmark of our democracy, and the accountability and public trust it brings with it, is in peril in South Algonquin ...

Here at the Bancroft This Week office everyone has a hockey history. Our graphic designer Alex Banelopoulos plays on both a competitive and beer league team. In our ads department both Melissa ...