PRESCOTT – The CSL Assiniboine, which ran aground near Cardinal's Galop Canal on Monday morning, finally broke free Saturday night with the help of tugs and the benefit of a lighter load. Andrew Bogora, a spokesman for the St.[...]

A little high school that turns out big achievers, Brockville Collegiate Institute on Saturday honoured three of its finest graduates: a nuclear scientist, a high-powered lawyer in Central Europe – and a top-notch runner who delights in telling people he's not from TISS.[...]

The Brockville Braves are red hot. The Braves notched a team record-tying 10th straight win in a well-deserved 6-3 win over the Gloucester Rangers in Central Junior A Hockey League action at the Memorial Centre before almost 800 fans on Friday night.[...]

Shean Donovan will get an idea today when he'll be able to resume his NHL career. The Senators veteran winger can only hope he gets the chance.[...]

Cecily Channer believes in guardian angels -- and she's not alone. According to a recent Gallup poll, 82% of women and 72% of men believe in angels.[...]

A man who spent an hour clinging to the side of his boat in the frigid water of the St. Lawrence River will live to tell the tale. Ontario Provincial Police were not releasing the identity or age of the man at his request Friday, but say he was pulled from the river by rescuers just after noon.[...]

If you think of politics as a giant machine, you can think of lobbying as the grease that keeps it running. I'm not one to criticize the role of the lobbyist.[...]

He made an National Hockey League career out of dropping opposing forwards with bodychecks as they skated across the blueline.[...]

The widow of a man killed in a confrontation with police in Forthton this summer is angry the officers who pulled the triggers did not have to speak for themselves.[...]

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.[...]

IROQUOIS — A man who spent an hour clinging to the side of his boat in the frigid water of the St. Lawrence River will live to tell the tale.[...]

WALL-E,you've been recycled. (Insert shocked bleep here.) And Pixar's robotic trash collector isn't alone. Planet 51,a sub-par CG animated spoof about a world that looks suspiciously like our past, is jammed with original ideas.[...]

Crews were to unload more grain from the stubborn CSL Assiniboine Thursday evening, while as many as five tug boats were poised to make a fresh attempt to get the grounded laker back on course.[...]

Some day in the not-too-distant future, we won't need to plug in our portable gadgets to charge them. We'll simply walk into our homes and sophisticated electronics embedded in our walls will start juicing all our batteries wirelessly.[...]

The Rideau Lions missed going to the all-Ontario championships last year by two points. That wasn't going to happen this time around against the Char-Lan Crusaders.[...]

Perhaps they were caught off guard. The boss is away so the B team's in charge. Even so, the incompetence on display on the government side in Ottawa Wednesday was breathtaking. Here you have Richard Colvin, formerly the No.[...]

Community and Primary Health Care (CPHC) will join community partners in a $110,000 initiative to fight childhood diabetes, officials were to announce this morning.[...]

Children from across the tri-county area will visit farms, plant gardens and take part in other activities aimed at promoting healthy eating in a $110,000 initiative announced today to combat childhood obesity and diabetes.[...]

In a further sign the H1N1 pandemic is continuing to abate in this region, the tri-county health unit has closed its flu assessment centres.[...]

She outgrew the role years ago, but Jessica Biel hasn't forgotten what it's like to be a teenage wild child. "When I was 16, I was pushing it on every angle--with my parents, with the world. I thought I had it going on.[...]