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Balloonapalooza a business booster for downtown core (Updated)
This weekend’s downtown balloon festival may have the busiest road in the city’s core closed down, but festival patrons and businesses alike seem to prefer it that way. Ouellette Avenue from Wyandotte...
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N.Y. meter mechanic gets 2 1/2 years for stealing five tons of quarters
Carolyn Thompson, The Associated Press BUFFALO, N.Y. – From the moment parking meter mechanic James Bagarozzo began his scheme to steal from the machines, his life became overrun with quarters. He...
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Windsor, Games win praise from visitors
Windsor is clean, the people are friendly and the city is the perfect host of the 2013 International Children’s Games, according to many of the hundreds of visitors who have travelled to Windsor-Essex...
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New revelations of NSA violations stir lawmakers’ concerns
WASHINGTON – New revelations from leaker Edward Snowden that the National Security Agency has overstepped its authority thousands of times since 2008 have undermined White House hopes that President...
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Windsor’s Egyptian community laments violence against countrymen
The Windsor Egyptian Community held a peaceful rally Saturday expressing support for the millions the restoration of the democratic process in Egypt following the military coup that ousted Egyptian...
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UPDATED: Cause undetermined for $325K body shop blaze
Windsor fire officials were unable to determine the cause of a blaze that caused extensive damage to a body shop in central Windsor Saturday. The large fire that broke out at A to Z Auto and Collision,...
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46 pythons euthanized in a Mission home a day after 40 pythons seized from...
MISSION, B.C. — British Columbia is the latest province with a snake problem as officers discovered and euthanized nearly 50 illegal pythons in a small town home. Insp. Chris Doyle of the B.C....
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U of W students offer help for the lost
Lost? Four University of Windsor students have an app for that. Their UWin IPS, short for indoor positioning system, is like GPS for the indoors, said electrical and computer engineering student...
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Games a huge success, Windsor a great host
As the world witnessed Windsor host the 47th annual International Children’s Games, organizers say it went on without a hitch, aside from some minor hiccups. “We always expect a glitch here and there,...
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Windsor Armouries comes to life (With Video)
The former Windsor Armouries building got a temporary makeover on the weekend. Suede Productions and Marz Media put on a 3D-Projective Mapping presentation in front of the downtown Armouries during...
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Don’t count out the D – 7 days in Detroit Day 7
It was the bottom of the ninth inning, Comerica Park was packed with a sold-out crowd and all 40,000 pairs of eyes were on Miguel Cabrera Saturday night. Cabrera knocked a home run into right field. It...
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Windsor Games wow the world
Windsor rolled out the red carpet for the world at the International Children’s Games, earning top marks for our generous spirit and sports facilities and setting the standard other host cities hope to...
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Photos: Windsor remembers raid on Dieppe (With Video)
Dieppe veteran Howard Large and Honorary Colonel Hardy Wheeler (right) lay a wreath during the annual service to mark the Dieppe Raid in Dieppe Park in Windsor on Monday, August 19, 2013. (TYLER...
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Homeowners surrounded by Indian Road ‘slum’ file lawsuit against bridge company
Homeowners who filed a civil lawsuit accusing the Ambassador Bridge company of turning a west end neighbourhood into a “slum” are seeking $10 million in punitive damages — described as the largest...
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Live scorpion discovered in Windsor backyard (With video)
The tiny creature discovered by the Greenhills in their Windsor backyard, it’s venomous tail darting aggressively at the pair of Popsicle sticks being used like chopsticks to grab it, was definitely a...
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Recalling the Dieppe raid, 71 years later (with video)
If a photograph is worth a thousand words then it would seem the reality that Essex Scottish veteran Howard Large lived through the day Canadian forces stormed German defenses at the Port of Dieppe...
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We object: Creditors begin filing opposition in federal court to Detroit’s...
Corey Williams, The Associated Press DETROIT – Protesters gathered outside federal court in Detroit on Monday as creditors began filing objections to the beleaguered city’s request for bankruptcy...
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City honours civic booster with street re-naming
Windsor has a new street. Ron Doherty Way, formerly known as Montreuil Road, connects Riverside Drive to the Via Rail station, former longtime stomping grounds of the rail company’s retired manager for...
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‘Suspicious’ speedboat puzzles Windsor police
Authorities are mystified about a speedboat that apparently dropped off people on the Windsor side of the Detroit River in the dead of night. U.S. Coast Guard informed Windsor police around 4:20 a.m....
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‘Exceptionally slow’ driver charged in Lakeshore
A teenager from Merlin is facing impaired driving charges after OPP noticed a vehicle travelling 34 km/h below the posted speed limit. The incident happened around 3 a.m. Saturday near Notre Dame...
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