Memories of the West Park senior girls basketball team's season are still fresh and Faryn Starrs has already made the transition to volleyball. It's after school at West Park Secondary School and the 17-year-old St.[...]

Governor Simcoe Secondary School graduate Lauren Buschmann was named the University of Vermont female student of the week.[...]

Twelve Mile Creek turned into a bathtub Monday after the Decew Falls power station shut down for repairs. Normally, hydro generation swells the creek by 240 cubic metres of water — enough to fill a couple of backyard swimming pools — every second.[...]

With a freshly stocked and painted boutique only days old, Cheri O'Reilly-Ventresca is feeling upbeat about her second foray into retail business.[...]

Keira Knowles hopes the flag flying above city hall will catch your attention. The AIDs Niagara co-ordinator raised the agency's flag in a ceremony Monday to kick off a week of events meant to educate people about the immune system-attacking virus and deadly disease.[...]

What's going on in Niagara? Upcoming bazaars Nov. 27 Fort Erie Garden Club bake sale at Royal Bank on Jarvis Street, beginning 9 a.m. Nov. 28 Southminster United Church turkey dinner, 5:30 p.m. at 6801 Hagar Ave.[...]

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The Niagara Health System returned to regular practices Monday with the lifting of visiting and building entrance restrictions that were put in place during the height of the H1N1 flu pandemic.[...]

The provincial government has purchased more than 200 additional hospital ventilators to prepare for a potential increase in critical-care patients during the H1N1 outbreak.[...]

The Heart and Stroke Foundation is recruiting teams to participate in Niagara Falls' annual Big Bike events Apr. 27 at Boston Pizza on Morrison Street and Apr. 28 at Casino Niagara and the Fallsview Casino Resort.[...]

Dozens of people jammed into city council chambers and spilled out into the lobby of city hall Tuesday night to express their opposition to the city’s proposed new animal control bylaw, saying that as it’s written it will create a secretive black market for the selling of exotic animals.

The owner of a derelict property on Queenston Street which has led to a more than 60-signature petition to city hall has been given a month to decide what to do with it.

Kathleen and Bill Thorsen always had a love for older homes. Which is why the Port Colborne couple fell in love with an old stone home at 44 King St. 15 years ago.

Patti Fagan’s Cafe on Main experience is growing. The award-winning entrepreneur is opening a second location in Fonthill on South Pelham Road, a location that will feature the same coffee, food and commitment to culture and the arts that made her first store in Welland such a success.

A feature film currently in production is once again looking for Niagara residents who want the chance to see themselves on the big screen.

WELLAND — Welland Hospital Foundation's Tree of Giving campaign dimmed a bit as someone stripped the Christmas tree of its bulbs last week. Security at the hospital discovered the theft during a patrol last Wednesday at 10 p.[...]

PORT COLBORNE — Pat Scholfield wants to know how long Port Colborne's urgent care centre will be open on 24-7 basis. She wants to know if more staffing and program cuts will be made at the hospital in the years to come.[...]

WELLAND — Mark and Melinda Turner were a little leery of getting an H1N1 vaccination for their two-year-old son Blake. "There are so many pros and cons," Mark said, referring to unsubstantiated concerns raised about the safety of the vaccine.[...]

WELLAND — While the city works to hold tax increases to less than 2% next year, councillors want to hear from residents on how their money should be used. A public meeting is being held at 7 p.m.[...]

Normally it's one team making a race to perfection. This year in the NFL, it's a perfection race.[...]

Toronto police are looking for a 16-year-old boy who allegedly called officials at Marc Garneau Collegiate Institute, at Don Mills Rd. and Overlea Blvd. Monday, saying he had a gun and was going to hurt a 15-year-old female student.

Toronto police are looking for a 16-year-old boy who called school officials at Marc Garneau Collegiate today, saying he had a gun and was going to hurt a 15-year-old female student.

Accused double murderer Christopher Little apparently drugged and sexually assaulted his wife Julie Crocker while she was unconscious, a court document says.

Accused double murderer Christopher Little drugged and apparently sexually assaulted his wife Julie Crocker while she was unconscious, but a botched police search meant that a jury never saw this evidence.

Few of those feeling angst and shame over the mistreatment of Afghan detainees have paused to recall how this mess originated.

Four Toronto-area men have been charged with kidnapping in relation to the robbery of a tractor-trailer full of alcohol in Ottawa in July.

The Ministry of the Attorney General says it still views Ontario's street racing law as constitutional, despite a provincial court ruling in Newmarket last week.

Some ethnic communities are at higher risk of developing Type 2 diabetes, but a new research project in Toronto hopes to prevent the risk from becoming reality.

The Opposition walked out of the Ontario legislature en masse Monday to protest the government's refusal to hold public hearings on its bill to create a 13 per cent harmonized sales tax.

Toronto police are investigating the possible abduction of a young woman from outside a hotel near Pearson International Airport.

Four Toronto-area men have been charged with kidnapping in relation to the robbery of a tractor-trailer full of alcohol in Ottawa in July.

The Ministry of the Attorney General says it still views Ontario's street racing law as constitutional, despite a provincial court ruling in Newmarket last week.

Quebec will cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 20 per cent from 1990 levels by 2020, Premier Jean Charest said Monday.

The Ottawa Senators have stayed near the top of the Northeast Division due in large part to a home-heavy schedule thus far.

Four men accused in the 2005 shooting death of 15-year-old Jane Creba in downtown Toronto were acquitted of manslaughter charges Monday.

An inquest into the death of an Owen Sound man who drowned in Collingwood Harbour more than five years ago began Monday. Donald Buckton died on May 28, 2004, after he fell into the water while trying to fill a tanker truck.[...]

SPRINGWATER TWP. — There is good economic news today for the village of Elmvale. Glueckler Metal Inc., which machines steel components for the automotive and heavy trucking industries, has purchased the former Transcontinental Bayweb property at 13 William St.[...]

MISSISSAUGA - A toddler who died after falling some 15 metres over a railing at Pearson International Airport wiggled out of his mother's arms as she turned her attention to her other child, police said Monday.[...]

Progressive Conservative MPP Jim Wilson (Simcoe-Grey) introduced legislation today that would end the 14 week old strike between DriveTest and its 600 employees. The bill passed First Reading by a vote of 14-0, with Liberal and NDP MPPs abstaining.[...]

What's on at council tonight: * Gayle Rushton of the Earth Hour Festival committee will make a certificate presentation to the city.[...]