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Boy suffers minor injuries after being hit by vehicle
An eight-year-old boy was struck by a vehicle shortly before 2:30 p.m. Sunday in the 1300 block of George Avenue. Windsor police confirmed the boy taken away on a stretcher suffered minor injuries....
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Easter sparks hope for world peace for local Christians
Local Christians celebrated this weekend by reflecting on Pope Francis’s Easter message, which called for world peace. “Our belief is very much in the line of peace,” said Jon Abbey, who attended...
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Survey reveals post-secondary students feeling the stress
Attending university is often described as some of the best years of our lives, but students are increasingly finding they’ve become some of the most stressed years. The combination of weak job...
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Part of Notre Dame Street to close Tuesday
Motorists and merchants are in for more delays and business interruptions this summer as the town closes a main artery in Belle River. Starting Tuesday Notre Dame will be shuttered between Depuis and...
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AIDS Committee of Windsor hosting forum on at-risk groups
Building HIV/AIDS Capacity is the first forum held by the AIDS Committee of Windsor aimed at bringing together those that work with groups at high risk of contracting the disease. The two-day forum...
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Two more would-be councillors enter Windsor political fray
Windsor’s municipal election is still six months away, but the list of candidates for city council just keeps growing — with two more would-be politicians entering the race. There are now five people...
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Families First looks to build new funeral home in Amherstburg
As a young child, John Sutton lived and played in a very unusual place — his family’s funeral home. Sutton, a 51-year-old Amherstburg councillor, said he has vague memories of living in his family’s...
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Supreme Court of Canada deals final blow to Anglican parishioners
A breakaway group of Anglican parishioners has been dealt a deathblow in their legal battle over ownership of a Riverside church. The Supreme Court of Canada has refused to grant St. Aidan’s...
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Building-block assembly lines coming in near future
Imagine a semi-autonomous manufacturing line where machines click in and out as easily as building blocks. University of Windsor engineering professor Hoda ElMaraghy already has. “We could design a...
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Alleged senior citizen drug dealer busted in Essex County OPP raid
Essex County OPP tactical officers have arrested an alleged senior citizen drug dealer and her teenaged partner after a raid on a house in Leamington. The OPP street crimes unit and emergency response...
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Windsor robbery victims get pepper sprayed, tussle with home invaders
Windsor police are on the hunt for a group of home invaders who stole a TV early Tuesday after forcing their way into an east side house and pepper spraying the residents. Police were called to the...
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City establishes books of condolence so residents can remember Herb Gray
Books of condolences have been placed at three city locations, so people can express their sympathies to the family of former deputy Prime Minister Herb Gray, who died Monday at the age of 82. The City...
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Kingsville house fire deemed suspicious
Essex County OPP say they are now treating a Kingsville house fire from earlier this month as suspicious. The fire started early in the morning April 11 in the 100 block of Wigle Avenue. The fire...
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Library, Maghnieh settle credit card audit lawsuit
The Windsor Public Library settled a lawsuit against Ward 10 Coun. Al Maghnieh Wednesday for the cost of an audit into the former library board chair’s improper corporate credit card spending. Maghnieh...
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Closing arguments heard on Windsor cop who punched woman
The hearing of a Windsor police officer who struck a woman while trying to make an arrest boils down to the question of what was reasonable force, argues the prosecutor. “You have to look at whether or...
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South Windsor man finds mailbox jammed with Enwin bills (With video)
There’s nothing amiss with Mike Somerville’s $154 April Enwin bill. It’s just that he has 78 of them. The retired chartered accountant who is in his 70s discovered 78 Enwin bills jammed into his South...
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Students push themselves in fitness combine
Not so long ago, Brad Roughton would have reached for a bag of chips instead of a chin-up bar. Friday, the 17-year-old was pushing himself to his physical limit in the first-annual Lakeshore Fitness...
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Francis vows to fight health unit spending hike
Despite advice from administration there was little Windsor can do, Mayor Eddie Francis said he hasn’t given up the fight in getting the local health unit to hold the line on spending increases. This...
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Two collisions closes EC Row eastbound at Walker, one person transported to...
Paramedics transported one person to hospital following two collisions in quick succession on EC Row just west of Walker Road Friday night. Windsor Police Staff Sgt. Jeff Verkoeyen said an eastbound...
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Funeral for Canadian author Alistair MacLeod held in Cape Breton
DUNVEGAN, N.S. – A funeral was held Saturday for Canadian writer Alistair MacLeod at a church on Cape Breton Island near the site where he wrote many of his stories. The service for the author, who...
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