PORT COLBORNE — The Welland and District Humane Society got a strange call Saturday morning — a deer was stranded in the Welland Canal. Shelter manager Ted Bettle said the call came in mid-morning that a deer was stranded in the canal along West St.[...]

WELLAND — Niagara College Knights are packing their bags for Guatemala — as part of a campaign to help children there called Packs of Hope.[...]

PELHAM — Students sat in wonder to listen to Wendy Berner continue an important tradition that bonds all walks of life together — storytelling. Berner travelled from Calgary to tell folklore from many different cultures across Canada.[...]

TORONTO — Kenneth Lampman and Derek Puskas — both of Welland — won $16,568.50 playing Pro Picks Pools. The winning ticket was purchased at Gateway Newstand located on Niagara St. in Welland. OLG is a provincial agency responsible for province-wide lottery games and gaming facilities.[...]

PORT COLBORNE — On Saturday 21 vehicles were taken off the roads for being deemed unsafe by the Niagara Regional Police. During the operation Road Worthy project, officers stopped 46 vehicles, of which 39 were escorted to an inspection site and mechanically examined.[...]

Ann McQuillin had seen the movie Twilight three times before she decide she just had to have a replica of the truck driven by lead character Bella Swan. She knew a red, 1953 Chevrolet half-ton with her name on it was out there somewhere.[...]

It's a role Tim McGraw signed to play for the rest of his life -- the husband of a steel-spined southern belle. "I have a wife that runs everything at home," says the 42-year-old country star, who's married to Faith Hill.[...]

With five east Welland schools up in an accommodation review by District School Board of Niagara, parents are making their pleas to keep them open.[...]

Maison Louis Jadot stands out as something of an anomaly from its winemaking contemporaries in the fabled Burgundy region of France. Wine exists primarily on a human scale in Burgundy where small vineyard parcels worked by family operations that produce tiny volumes of wine are the norm.[...]

Sun Media handicapper Randall the Handle and Sun Media's Rob Longley and Ken Fidlin each has been awarded a fictitious bankroll of $1,000 to start the season.[...]

Journal entry:Friday, Nov. 20 This is a day off. I will use it to take care of housecleaning items, like weeding out the 'to do' list and getting caught up on things left unattended for some time. It takes 10 minutes to reach one conclusion: My days are numbered.[...]

Crystals and semiprecious stones are reputed to have almost magical healing properties. For Kathleen Thorsen, they actually worked -- and there was nothing magical about it. A year ago in September, the Port Colborne resident was diagnosed with a very serious type of ovarian cancer.[...]

TORONTO — Here are the winning numbers for Friday's draws: The winning Encore number was 0972850. The winning numbers in Friday's Lotto Max draw for an estimated jackpot of $20 million were 2, 8, 28, 30, 36, 39 and 42.[...]

ST. CATHARINES — It looks like a made-in-Niagara solution to a stinky Niagara problem. A new trash-to-energy technology, developed in the Garden City, claims to avoid the dirty environmental reputation of incineration.[...]

ST. CATHARINES — They greeted Ted Berdowski on the front steps of an apartment building like an overzealous welcoming committee. Inside one unit, some jumped around on the couch. Others came rushing toward Berdowski with every step he took.[...]

ST. CATHARINES — The co-owner of a local driving school says a three-month strike at DriveTest centres has slowed his business and has become a major inconvenience to their students.[...]

NIAGARA FALLS — They represent a small part of the population, but kids with red hair had to be on guard Friday — it was "national kick a ginger day." Most parents have never heard of it.[...]

ST. CATHARINES — A St. Catharines math teacher is using the Toronto Maple Leafs dismal season as a learning opportunity for his students. Norbert Preiner's philosophy is when life gives you a lemon of a hockey team, you might as well make mathematical lemonade.[...]

ST. CATHARINES — Somebody out there knows who did it. Somebody saw something or maybe heard someone brag about their twisted deed. Carrie Hawkes is convinced the information is out there.[...]

THOROLD — Insolvent AbitibiBowater and its major union are urging governments to back a proposed pension trust.[...]