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Bull n’ Barrel stages toy drive
The Bull n’ Barrel Urban Saloon is staging a holiday season toy and can drive over a six-day period beginning this Sunday. Staff, ownership and management are urging patrons to bring in canned goods...
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Flashy new medical buildings? Savvy patients make for savvy health care (and...
From out the outside, the Tecumseh Manning Medical Centre looks like the headquarters of a large corporation – sand-coloured, two storeys high and with large, dark-tinted windows. The two-storey atrium...
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Photos: Faberge Eggs Dazzle At The Detroit Institute Of Art
Faberge: The Rise and Fall features more than 200 precious objects from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, home of the largest collection of Faberge in the United States. Shown are items on display at...
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Trucking alliance pushes to get DRIC bridge started, better streamline customs
Canadian Trucking Alliance CEO David Bradley pushed for expedited construction of the planned $1-billion government-backed bridge and better streamlining of the customs clearance process at the...
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City of Windsor buys Grace site
The former Grace Hospital has been purchased by the City of Windsor which plans to take “immediate action to clean up the site,” The Star has learned. City council agreed unanimously to approve the...
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City Buys Grace For Cleanup
The former Grace Hospital has been purchased by the City of Windsor which plans to take “immediate action to clean up the site,” The Star has learned. City council agreed unanimously to approve the...
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City of Windsor union agrees to concessions to keep aquatic jobs
In an effort to secure the jobs that will be required to run the city’s new Family Aquatic Complex, Windsor’s unionized workforce has agreed to a concessionary new multi-tiered pay grid for its...
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Black Friday frenzy? No thanks. Some fearful shoppers stay in Canada
Pushing. Shoving. Hair-pulling. People locked in mortal struggle to snatch up products at bargain prices. This was not the scene at the Devonshire Mall on Black Friday. Although Windsor’s largest...
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Koop updated version
At 86, neither age nor a terminal cancer diagnosis is slowing Elsa Koop down much. The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal winner is one of Wheatley’s best-known senior citizens after a lifetime of...
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Leamington blaze hits auto supply store
A portion of Victoria Avenue South in Leamington remains closed Saturday after an early morning fire ripped through an auto supply store. Leamington firefighters responded to a call Saturday around...
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Animal experts try to lure hawk from university building
Armed with a tennis ball and slingshot, animal experts are trying to tire out a hawk stuck in the towering ceiling of University of Windsor building Dillon Hall. Ted Foreman, owner of Bob’s Animal...
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Health sciences and skilled trades top choices for future students
For prospective St. Clair College students, this year’s most sought after programs can be found in the school’s new state-of-the-art Centre for Applied Health Sciences. “That, by far, is the one we get...
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Apartment fire sends three to hospital
Three residents were taken to hospital for minor smoke inhalation after an early morning apartment fire in central Windsor. Sunday around 3 a.m., Windsor firefighters responded to a call from the sixth...
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Ambassador Bridge continues push for permits to build twin span
Ambassador Bridge officials are pushing forward on applications for several permits to build a twin span. The bridge company earlier this fall was involved in an exchange of information with federal...
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Snyder says DRIC being “fast-tracked” on U.S. side
Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder says the Detroit River International Crossing is being “fast-tracked” on his side of the border and a presidential permit for the project should be coming in two to three...
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Street artist comments on Windsor urban landscape with creepy cartoon characters
Vacant businesses may be a common sight in Windsor now, but have you noticed something creepy about them lately? Bambi excreting miniature replicas of himself. Donald Duck’s nephew Dewey with two...
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Family sues long-term care home over death
Ristosija Lembovski was an 83-year-old woman with dementia. On Aug. 14, 2011, she shuffled out of Rose Garden Villa long-term care home with her walker and threw herself into the Detroit River. Her...
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Photos: Windsor-Essex Parkway Concrete Pour
Windsor-Essex Parkway workers continue with an extensive concrete pour in the area of ‘Bridge 10′ a bridge which will allow Highway 3 traffic over Highway 401 in the area of St. Clair College main...
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City hall to battle high absenteeism
City hall doesn’t know why so many of Windsor’s public servants are apparently taking ill, but it has decided to play doctor and be more aggressive in nursing sick employees back to work. Last year,...
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Councillors demand answers to Holmes hiring
City councillors expressed amazement Monday at the most recent revelations of questionable spending by former Windsor Public Library CEO Barry Holmes, and they’re demanding answers on his background....
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