The Town of Lincoln said there is no vaccine clinic in Linon on Saturday. The province scheduled it on its portal by mistake, a town advisory says. The Apr. 3 clinic had been listed in the provincial COVID-19 vaccine registration portal and was also showing on the Niagara Region website. People had scheduled to … Read more
The Grimsby Public Art Gallery asked the community where hope was being found a year into the pandemic. Over 80 responses came back in the form of mixed visual mediums ranging from acrylic paintings to textiles.
New Niagara Region vaccine clinic dates have been added in April, including two new dates in Grimsby.
Ontario’s students and teachers have been holding out for their delayed March break since it was deferred six weeks ago amid what was then considered a dangerously high rate of COVID-19 spread. Those numbers are much higher now and that break is in question. “I don’t want to predict two weeks out, but we’ll be out here … Read more
The Niagara Regional Police Service said will be ticketing vehicles with illegal mufflers that produce excess noise and smoke in a new policing campaign that starts Thursday.
Two teens sitting were shot with a BB gun by an occupant of an SUV in a St. Catharines park last Thursday evening, Niagara police reported Monday. A police news release said that four male teens, ages 17 to 18, were sitting on play equipment at Joe McCaffery Park at 61 Vansickle Road in St. … Read more
Niagara Region Public Health is holding a vaccination clinic today in Grimsby, however it is fully booked. But more West Niagara clinics will be held across West Niagara this week. The Grimsby clinic is open from 9:30 am to 6 pm Saturday and Sunday at the Niagara West YMCA at 325 Main St. East in … Read more
Niagara Regional Council voted Thursday to extend Niagara’s temporary face-covering by-law, which was set to expire on April 1, 2021. The by-law requires masks in all enclosed public spaces in Niagara and aligns with orders issued by the province under the Reopening Ontario Act. The by-law will automatically expire when provincial requirements are no longer … Read more
Niagara Region Public Health has declared a COVID-19 outbreak in student residences at Brock University. There are currently 12 cases that are part of this outbreak, it said in a news release Friday. After learning the number of individuals testing positive for COVID-19 went from one on Wednesday, March 24 to 10 on Thursday, Brock University … Read more
The Ontario government is moving the City of Hamilton public health region to the Grey-Lockdown level.