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A late night dance concert ended with five people shot outside the L8 night club early Sunday morning. Niagara Regional Police were called to the Lundy’s Lane venue at about Four:45 a.m. with reports of gunshots.
Labour Day Weekend in Niagara Falls felt extra labourious at the pumps.
Search and rescue crews from the Canadian Coast Guard Auxiliary and Canadian Coast Guard rescued three people from the waters of Lake Erie west of Port Colborne Saturday after their boat capsized.
Seventeen-year-old Corrie Lyn stopped for a moment to take in his surroundings. “I love it here, it looks like the colleges you see in the movies,” said the Brock freshman who flew in from the Bahamas just days before.
Just bashful of two years after being diagnosed with a uncommon form of leukaemia, Phil Secord has lost his battle at the age of 32. Secord, whose story has been often told in this newspaper, died last Wednesday.
The Greek community of Niagara hosted its 12th annual festival that runs until Labour Day.
It’s been a busy summer season the Welland Farmers Market that featured joy activities among local produce, wines, meats and other goods.
Hundreds of Niagara College students are lodging in for a fresh year, some for the very first time away from home.
The U.N. Security Council is set to hold an emergency meeting on North Korea after a powerful nuclear test explosion added another layer of urgency for diplomats wrestling with what to do next.
Attack mode, says the Conservative Party’s fresh foreign affairs critic, will not be the opposition’s very first instinct when dealing with the Liberal government’s renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement.
Maine lobstermen Alex Todd has hauled in blue lobsters and even some lobsters that were half blue, or half orange. But he says those don’t compare on the scale of weirdness to the translucent crustacean that he recently pulled up in a trap.
Smoke packed the sky and ash rained down across Los Angeles Sunday from a disruptive wildfire that the mayor said was the largest in city history — one of several blazes that sent thousands fleeing homes across the U.S. West during a sweeping holiday weekend fever wave.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has condemned North Korea’s latest nuclear weapon testing and is urging the United Nations to take further steps to contain the country’s nuclear proliferation efforts.
North Korea on Sunday claimed a “perfect success” for its most powerful nuclear test so far, a further step in the development of weapons capable of striking anywhere in the United States. President Donald Trump, asked if he would attack the North, said, “We’ll see.”
Authorities say a 17-year-old woman has been charged with murder in the stabbing death of her one-year-old daughter in Ohio’s capital city of Columbus.
All drivers got the green light during a R.I.D.E. blitz of Niagara Falls and Thorold Saturday night.
Niagara Regional Police are seeking the public’s help identifying a man who assaulted a 54-year-old woman in Niagara Falls early Saturday morning.
Welland Fire and Emergency Services was called to a garage fire at about four p.m. Saturday.
More than two hundred participants competed in the Ultimate Rodeo Tour Friday night at the Niagara Regional Exhibition fairground. A few of the competitions included without a condom railing, bull railing, barrel racing and pole arching. Prizes ranged from $20 to $1,000 for the winners.