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
Ontario reported 2,094 new COVID-19 cases on Monday and 4,901 cases over the weekend. There were 40 new cases today and 131 over the weekend in the Niagara Region.
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.
Ontario reports 2,169 new COVID-19 cases with 12 new deaths. Niagara Region reports 61 cases with no new deaths.
Canadian Blood Services says it is struggling to book enough blood donors for its Good Friday donation clinic in Smithville.
In a report to Grimsby council, the integrity commissioner cleared Coun. Reg Freake of three code of conduct complaints made against him.