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Hatfield debuts at Queen’s Park
Rookie MPP Percy Hatfield (NDP — Windsor-Tecumseh) made his debut at Queen’s Park Monday choosing to make his first questions in the legislature about the safety of the cement girders being used in the...
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Drug mule testifies against accused co-conspirator from US jail
A drug mule serving three years for smuggling ecstasy into the U.S. testified from an American prison Monday that she became part of a sting operation following her arrest in Detroit to implicate the...
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U of W students swelter; school says air conditioning fix coming
If there was a common lesson learned by a vast majority of University of Windsor students on Tuesday, Day 3 of the CUPE Local 1393 strike, it was this: Stay hydrated. With temperatures soaring to a...
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Leamington to add to trails this fall
Leamington council agreed Monday to complete a final design and put out tenders for an expansion to its recreational trails. The $300,000 Leamington trail expansion will go from Hazelton Avenue to...
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Police investigate fatal ATV collision in Lakeshore
The Ontario Provincial Police are continuing their investigation after the driver of an all-terrain vehicle died Tuesday afternoon in a Lakeshore farm field. Though the OPP would confirm few details...
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SIU clears Essex detachment OPP officers in London-area shooting
The Special Investigations Unit has decided not to charge three Essex detachment Ontario Provincial Police officers who shot and injured a 17-year-old boy near London last month. According to a release...
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Windsor-based company now involved in parkway girder controversy (With video)
Construction delays at the $1.4-billion Herb Gray Parkway are threatening to become widespread after government officials learned girders manufactured by Windsor-based Prestressed Systems Inc. are also...
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Witness insists acused in alleged drug conspiracy knew about her smuggling
A convicted drug smuggler serving time in a U.S. prison insisted Tuesday that a Windsor man on trial for exporting hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of ecstasy to Detroit, “knew what was going on”...
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Heat breaks record but won’t stay for weekend (With video)
Tuesday’s scorching heat beat a 30-year-old record. The temperature at Windsor airport was 34.2 C at 4 p.m., beating a record of 34 set on Sept. 10, 1983. To get above 34 in September is pretty...
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Cancer patient video lures astronaut Hadfield to Windsor (With videos)
Drawn by the gravitational pull of a video that tugs at the heartstrings, Canada’s space superhero Chris Hadfield is coming to Windsor Sept. 23 to spend time with young cancer patients. The in-demand...
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Lakeshore approves aquatics complex
BELLE RIVER – Council approved Tuesday a scaled back multi-use recreation complex that will have an elaborate aquatics complex, but it will cost taxpayers an additional property tax increase in 2016....
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Tecumseh bans flying lanterns
TECUMSEH — Council banned flying lanterns Tuesday over safety concerns. Tecumseh joins Kingsville and Essex that have also prohibited the sale and use of the miniature hot air balloons that fire...
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Lakeshore archeology dig finds artifacts from 4,000 years ago
PUCE More than 80,000 artifacts that provide a glimpse of life in the region 4,000 years ago have been recovered by archeologists on the banks of the Puce River. While most of the arrowheads and...
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Gap between rich and poor neighbourhoods widest in Windsor
Windsor is the most economically polarized urban area in the country, with more than a third of the residents in the city’s core neighbourhoods living far below the poverty line. Data released by...
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Quebec ban on religious symbols condemned (With video)
The Quebec government’s proposal to ban public employees from wearing “overt” religious symbols including hijabs, turbans, kippahs or skullcaps was condemned Wednesday by Muslim and Jewish leaders in...
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Police show pot, guns seized from storage lockers (With video)
It would have made for quite an episode of Storage Wars. When Windsor police took storage locker keys seized after executing a search warrant on a vehicle after a man’s arrest in South Windsor in...
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Windsor-Essex under severe thunderstorm warning
The Windsor-Essex County area is under a severe thunderstorms warning. Environment Canada said thunderstorms have developed ahead of an approaching cold front. There is the potential for heavy...
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Lakeshore awarded four horse racing dates (With video)
The local horse-racing industry has finally reached the starting line in its bid to prove it can be viable locally after the Ontario Racing Commission announced Wednesday that it has granted four live...
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Leamington OPP seek help in daytime break-in
Leamington OPP are looking for the public’s assistance in relation to a daylight break and enter that occurred while the homeowner was outside the home but on the property. Sometime between 1 and 4...
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