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Province will conduct assessment of high-speed rail to Windsor
If Ontario builds a high-speed rail corridor, Windsor will be part of it at some point, Mayor Eddie Francis predicted Friday. The province announced Wednesday that it would move ahead with plans to...
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Election coming in Ontario as Horwath says she’ll vote down Liberal budget
By David Reevely, Postmedia News OTTAWA — Ontario’s New Democrats won’t support Premier Kathleen Wynne’s government any longer, their leader Andrea Horwath said Friday morning, and will bring down the...
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Windsor’s Tunnel BBQ to close to make way for University of Windsor Expansion
A downtown tradition for nearly 73 years, the family-owned Tunnel Bar-B-Q restaurant has been sold to the University of Windsor and will eventually be demolished to make way for a new arts school. The...
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Ontario election June 12 after NDP pans Liberal budget
Ontarians will go to the polls June 12 to elect a new government after NDP leader Andrea Horwath said Friday she will not support the governing Liberals’ new goodies-filled budget. “The Liberal budget...
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Fundraisers to aid Forster athletes as they transition to new high school
A pair of events have been scheduled related to the closure of Forster Secondary School to help raise funds for athletics as students move forward to the new Westview Freedom Academy starting this...
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Toronto drug dealer found guilty
A Toronto-area drug dealer, who tried to argue his rights were violated when police found cocaine, crack and a digital scale in his pockets, was convicted in Superior Court Friday. Adrian Omar...
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Officials unveil new detention centre, complete with flatscreen TVs and body...
There are flatscreen TVs, cooking lessons, a teepee, and not a single iron bar. Officials at the new South West Detention Centre gave reporters a sneak peek Friday at Windsor’s massive new $247-million...
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Vehicle of missing Windsor man found in Winnipeg
The Jeep of a missing Windsor man has been discovered in Winnipeg, Man. Winnipeg Police Service revealed on Friday that the vehicle of 30-year-old Brandon Wheeler was found in the west end of the city....
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Mike Graston’s Colour Cartoon For Saturday, May 3, 2014
Mike Graston’s Colour Cartoon For Saturday, May 3, 2014
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Tentative agreement reached in Windsor Star contract talks
A tentative agreement has been reached in the contract talks at The Windsor Star. Editor-in-chief Marty Beneteau said the agreement was reached on Friday night after a full week of negotiations — about...
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Windsor in Pictures, May 2, 2014
The Star’s award-winning photographers covered the city and county on May, 2, 2014. Check out the gallery. Walking past a Windsor institution: Tunnel Bar-B-Q on Park Street East, May 2, 2014. (Tyler...
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$50-million Lotto Max jackpot goes unclaimed
TORONTO – No one has the winning ticket for the $50-million jackpot in Friday’s Lotto Max draw. Two MaxMillions prizes of $1-million each were also offered, and one was claimed by a ticket sold...
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Willistead pathway opponents walk in protest (With video)
The main underground drainage work is completed and the new pathways have begun being roughed in with gravel — and yet they still protest. An estimated 60-plus demonstrators — armed with placards, kids...
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Photos: Wings and Wheels
The Wings and Wheels event was held at at Windsor Airport on Saturday, May 3, 2014. Author Glen Mitchell read his book, called A Bad Penny Always Comes Back, which is about Royal Air Force Crews...
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Windsor Star honoured with 7 Ontario Newspaper Awards
Windsor Star reporters and photographers took home seven awards Saturday night at this year’s Ontario Newspaper Awards in Hamilton. Photographer Jason Kryk was named Photojournalist of The Year, an...
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Windsor’s Sin City moves back into the shadows
As urban back alleys go, it’s probably Windsor’s cleanest, safest and most well-lit. But it still means you must step out of the relative street hustle-bustle of a typical Friday night in the downtown...
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Parking meters eyed as solution to panhandlers (With video)
Coin-gobbling parking meters, the bane of urban motorists everywhere, could soon be the latest tool deployed to clear downtown Windsor streets of its panhandlers. The Downtown Windsor BIA is proposing...
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Underground world of off-the-books migrant work revealed by Star investigation
It was like they never existed, at least not in Canada. The only hint was a note in the company log at Nature’s Finest Produce in Chatham about a visit by immigration officials on Sept. 25, 2012....
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Windsor Star workers ratify new contract
The Windsor Star’s approximately 185 organized workers ratified a new three-year contract Sunday. “It was very difficult bargaining — the newspaper industry is under unprecedented challenges, and that...
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Local Little Leagues celebrate Opening Day
Summers and Little League baseball have been woven together in the lives of Barb and Val Ward for the past 25 years. All three of their sons went through the Windsor South program where Val first...
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