Windsor Star wins 9 ONA awards including Journalist, Photojournalist of The Year
Windsor Star reporters and photographers took home nine Ontario Newspaper Awards and made history by sweeping the Journalist of The Year and Photojournalist of The Year categories at a ceremony in...
View ArticleCity calls for driver patience while Cabana Road intersection gets completed
Responding to rising frustration by drivers again faced with construction congestion at the Provincial Road and Cabana Road East intersection, city officials are calling for patience. Ongoing...
View ArticleMotley Crue rocker Tommy Lee calls for cancellation of Calgary Stampede...
CALGARY — Rock band Motley Crue’s drummer, Tommy Lee, has written a letter to Alberta’s premier urging her to “use her influence” to cancel the chuckwagon races at this year’s Calgary Stampede. Lee...
View ArticleNDP nomination candidate would ‘shake things up’ at Queen’s Park
Click here to see a gallery of Laurie Komon’s outdoor meet and greet on Drouillard Road. Laurie Komon may have trouble seeing a few feet in front of her – suffering low vision – but she said she has no...
View ArticleUniversity of Windsor researchers showcase efforts (with video)
Click here to see a gallery of the U of W’s annual Research Showcase and Outreach Community Event at Devonshire Mall. Local university faculty and students rolled out their research projects Saturday...
View ArticleLabour leaders, affected family members say workplace tragedies still too common
Ramiro Escoto believes little has changed in the workplace or safety inspection monitoring since his son Takis was killed two years ago when hit by a front-end loader at a local construction site....
View ArticleJarvis: Lots of history, a small space
A pocket sundial compass made in 1671 and brought to Detroit, a flag said to have been draped over Tecumseh’s body after he was killed in the Battle of the Thames in 1813 – Windsor’s Community Museum...
View ArticlePhotos: Walk For Muscular Dystrophy
There was lots of heart as people gathered for the Walk for Muscular Dystrophy at Assumption Park along Windsor’s riverfront, Sunday, April 28, 2013. Nathan Tessier, 9, runs in the Walk for Muscular...
View ArticleWindsor was ‘second home’ to former U.S. senator
George Z. Hart, a popular American politician from Dearborn known as “the singing senator,” spent so much time in Windsor, he considered it his second home. “He’d come over every day. He loved Canada,”...
View ArticleProposed U.S.-Canada border fee ‘not going to happen,’ says U.S. Congressman
OTTAWA — A U.S. congressman says Canadians should not be overly concerned about a proposed border crossing fee, saying it just isn’t going to happen. Democratic representative Brian Higgins, who is...
View ArticlePhotos: Il Divo Romances At Caesars
Caesars Windsor welcomed the return of the world’s foremost classical crossover quartet Il Divo bringing their new Best of Il Divo tour to Windsor on Sunday, April 28, 2013. The group – Urs Buhler,...
View ArticleHarrow teen needs online votes for accessible van
Seventeen-year-old Madison Brennan of Harrow needs online votes to have a chance at winning an accessible van and a chance to get out more. Brennan has cerebral palsy and chronic pain, which means she...
View ArticleMinistry glitch misdirects money to thousands of Ontario Works recipients
A computer glitch by the province’s Ministry of Community and Social Services has sent more money than intended to thousands of people on social assistance. The unprecedented processing error affects...
View ArticleLaSalle police receive numerous calls about air raid-style sirens
LASALLE — An emergency drill at a local agri-industry Monday alarmed a number of residents. “We received a ton of calls,” said Const. Jamie Nestor, community-relations officer for LaSalle police....
View ArticleLeamington’s Bank Theatre gets federal grant for reno
The Sun Parlour Players want to raise the roof. Literally. The community theatre group in Leamington that was homeless for a while has received federal funding to raise the roof and remove a vault in...
View ArticlePlans to mitigate low water in upper Great Lakes lauded
Restore Our Water International, part of The Sierra Club, is lauding a recommendation that would bring up the water levels of the upper Great Lakes. In an April 15 decision, the International Joint...
View Article‘Communications issue’ behind chemo drug scandal, Marchese president says
Marchese Hospital Solutions thought each bag of chemotherapy drugs it prepared was for a single patient, making it unnecessary to measure and label the concentration precisely, the company’s president...
View ArticleDemolition proposed for historic home to Windsor’s elite and its sexy strippers
It began as the stylish home of a staunch Catholic mayor before morphing into a hotel and ballroom gathering spot for Windsor society elite and then a riverfront drinking destination. And on weekend...
View ArticleSewer repairs to restrict Wyandotte Street East
Wyandotte Street East will be undergoing several months of watermain construction beginning Monday. Wyandotte between Glidden and St. Rose avenues will be subjected to the work until Aug. 6. Coco...
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