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Leamington defers decision on wider smoking ban
Citing a desire to get more public input from those who might be affected by a widespread ban on smoking on municipal property, Leamington deferred making a decision pending a public meeting on the...
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City approves downtown museum “hub”
After decades of talk on the need for a bigger museum to tell Windsor’s rich history, city council decided Monday night it was time to act. In a 9-2 vote, council approved a staff and committee...
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Council backs down from Enwin audit
After an initial auditing foray into the affairs of Enwin Utilities, city council Monday night decided to abandon a second, but far costlier, phase of the investigation. “Was there anything that caught...
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Council votes to tear down heritage house
The Grayson House, a stately home at 1077 Ouellette Ave. on Windsor’s heritage registry, will be torn down to make way for a parking lot. “As the homes come tumbling down, there’s gonna be fewer and...
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Lucky citizen claims lost cash after Good Samaritan turns it in
A large amount of cash turned in by a Good Samaritan has been returned to its rightful owner. Windsor police were dispatched around 8 a.m. Sunday to a South Windsor business after a report of some...
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Price of 6/49 ticket jumps to $3 in September
By Anne Sutherland, THE GAZETTE MONTREAL – Brace yourselves: the cost of a 6/49 ticket will go up to $3 come September. That’s one loonie and one toonie, 12 quarters, 30 thin dimes and who knows how...
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Safety village holding bike festival
The Children’s Safety Village is hosting a Superhero Cycle for Safety and Family Bike Festival Thursday. The festivities begin at 7:30 a.m. with a 124-kilometre escorted Superhero Cycle for Safety ride...
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Windsor’s air quality better, but still among worst in Ontario, report says
Windsor’s air quality has improved, but the city remains among the worst in Ontario for smog-causing ozone and other pollutants that harm human health, according to a report released Wednesday by the...
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‘Unfortunate breakup’ lands teen in court
He pestered her in the library. He pestered her on the bus. Now, the teenage boy, smitten with a girl who had rejected him, finds himself before the courts, charged with criminal harassment and sexual...
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Scrap waste laws to make more recycling, groups say
The Ontario government needs to scrap its waste laws to encourage more recycling, according to two provincial recycling organizations. A new Waste Diversion Act must also stop retailers from charging...
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Star editorial: Healthier kids
The Windsor-Essex County Health Unit wants the provincial government to provide $10 million over five years to tackle our childhood obesity rates. Kids in this region are 10 per cent heavier than the...
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Swat team swarms west end apartment building
A west end resident counted 17 Emergency Service Unit officers swarming his neighbourhood Wednesday night minutes before a man was taken into custody. Neighbours heard a loud bang around 7 p.m. and saw...
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Awards honour business excellence
Building a successful business is only a small part of what motivates Jim Scott and Michelle Prince to succeed in their chosen fields. On a night celebrating business excellence throughout Windsor and...
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Windsor police arrest two home invasion suspects
Windsor police have arrested two men in relation to a Wednesday morning home invasion. Det. Chris Dupuis said that shortly before 6 a.m. a home in the 1300 block of Elm Avenue was broken into. Dupuis...
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High wind and lack of bracing caused campus steel collapse, says contractor
Gusting winds and the absence of temporary bracing were to blame for the collapse of a steel structure on the work site of the University of Windsor’s new Innovation Centre earlier this month, says the...
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Cameras capture massive explosion as fuel barges catch fire in ship channel...
MOBILE, Ala. — Firefighters on Thursday extinguished a huge blaze that erupted hours earlier when two fuel barges exploded in Mobile, Ala., leaving three people with critical burns and forcing the...
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Boston suspects said N.Y.C. was next, Mayor Bloomberg says
NEW YORK — New York City officials say the Boston Marathon bombing suspects intended to blow up their remaining explosives in Times Square.Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly...
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Photos: Suzuki At WFCU (with video)
Environmentalist. author and broadcaster David Suzuki, speaks to Wake Up Windsor audience, a large audience of students, at the WFCU Cenrtre in Windsor, Ont., Thursday April 25, 2013. “We are...
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Motorcycle Ride For Dad kicks off fundraising campaign
Dennis Solet was supposed to be a ghost rider by now. Instead the 64-year-old retired high school teacher beat a prostate cancer death sentence and will be cruising through the community as part of the...
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Penalty Box construction shut down by city, but then resolved (with video)
A $2.5-million restaurant development at a historic University Avenue building hit a roadblock Thursday when city building officials shut down construction at the site. But the project was allowed to...
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