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Windsor firefighters douse three small blazes
Windsor fire crews were kept hopping over the lunch hour dealing with three small fires in west, east and central Windsor. One person suffered from minor smoke inhalation and crews quickly doused a...
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Snow removal forces rotating road closures
Snow removal operations over the next few days, including at bus stops and sidewalks, will force rotating closure on several major routes, the City of Windsor has announced. The bulk of the work,...
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Miracle On Ice: Police find missing man in truck buried in snow
A Leamington man who disappeared in his pickup truck in the midst of a wicked winter storm has been located by police and is alive. Leamington OPP issued a public alert Tuesday afternoon, urging...
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City of Windsor modifies waste collection due to snow, cold
The City of Windsor has modified garbage and recycling collection this week for older central areas of the city due to the extreme cold and snow accumulation. The city says they are dealing with...
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Flu strain targeting the young this year
Flu season is generally hard on seniors, but this year the H1N1 strain of influenza that is dominating the local scene has aggressively attacked the younger segment of the population. Of the 122...
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Nominations trickle in to county municipalities
Municipal clerks haven’t exactly been overrun by folks seeking nominations for the 2014 election. As of Tuesday, there were only 13 nomination forms filed in all seven county municipalities. That’s 13...
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Local contractor testifies 1.8 kg bag of marijuana ‘wasn’t mine’
A Windsor contractor testified at his criminal trial Tuesday he did not know how a 1.8 kilogram bag of marijuana ended up in a warehouse he was leasing to run his business. Federal drug prosecutor...
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Worst ice season in decades, says Coast Guard
Ice is forming almost as fast as Coast Guard icebreakers can cut through it and without them the Detroit River could freeze over completely, harkening back to the days when rumrunners drove cargoes of...
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Black ice blamed for Kentucky crash that killed Windsor woman and injured family
Authorities say black ice was the cause of highway crash in Kentucky that left a Windsor woman dead and her family members seriously injured. Svetlana Frkovic, 66, of Windsor, was in the back seat of a...
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Jarvis: The new Windsor
Maybe it was during a tour of the new pool and water park. It blew me away. Maybe it was during the mayor’s State of the City address, when he announced plans to build more bike paths, invest in...
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School buses cancelled in Essex County, running in city
For the third day straight school buses have been cancelled in Essex County. School buses are running in the City of Windsor. The announcement was made shortly before 6 a.m. Wednesday. All schools are...
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Police release surveillance video of theft suspects
Windsor police are searching for two suspects who broke into a Central Avenue business Sunday. Police said two suspects broke into Club Alouette by prying open the rear door. Once inside, they broke...
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Kentucky crash survivor hopes father will leave hospital by weekend
A Windsor woman who survived a crash Monday that killed her mother on an icy stretch of Kentucky highway says she hopes her father will leave hospital by the weekend. “My father and I would like to...
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Essex County libraries catching up with the digital age
Imagine that your musty old neighbourhood library sprouted 10 more floors and several new wings of audio books, music and movies, and offered more variety in art and entertainment than a big-box...
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Another hour before rescue could have meant tragic end for senior buried...
Another hour likely would have meant the difference between life and death for a 70-year-old man found frost-bitten, shivering and dehydrated inside his truck, which was buried under a snowdrift. “I...
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Ontario pledges $4 million to upgrade teachers’ math skills
TORONTO — The best way to improve the math test scores of Ontario students is to better train teachers in the subject, Education Minister Liz Sandals said Wednesday as she announced a $4-million plan...
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New multi-agency program unveiled to aid hoarders (with video)
Piled higher and deeper is the common joke answer to what a PhD degree really means, but in one local hoarding case, the definition proved literal. Possessing such a degree, enjoying a comfortable...
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Saint-Ambroise school closed
Saint-Ambroise Catholic school in St. Joachim will remain closed Thursday while crews clean up from a flood caused by a burst water pipe. The school was closed today after the flooding was discovered...
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After big snow followed by deep freeze — flooding next?
After a major snowfall followed by a deep freeze, area residents are now being warned to brace themselves for the next big weather curveball of 2014 — flooding. A warming trend, to peak over the...
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Yard sale row lands man in jail
A Windsor man who got violent at a yard sale was sentenced Wednesday to a year on probation. Wesley James Paul, 33, a repeat offender who once killed a man, had already served 70 days in jail before he...
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