Rain and flooding across Niagara could not keep an estimated 1,000 to 1,500 visitors from the NOTL Museum’s annual Heritage Festival on Monday, where the public got its first real look inside the former home of museum founder Janet Carnochan.
Thunderstorms rolled over the Niagara Pumphouse Arts Centre around 11 a.m. Sunday, forcing Art at the Pumphouse to close hours early and cancelling a full afternoon of demonstrations, live music and in-person sales.
The St. Davids Lions Club has pulled off its family carnival for a 63rd straight year, and its club president says he could not be happier with the number of people who came out to the village fairgrounds.
The picnic brings together members of a private Facebook group Mariah Reese started in 2021, during the COVID-19 pandemic, to push back against the negativity she saw taking over local online spaces.
More than three years after Gordon Lightfoot’s death, his music filled St. Mark’s Anglican Church as a sold-out audience gathered to celebrate the Canadian icon through the voices and instruments of musicians who knew him.
Canada’s best FIFA World Cup showing is over, and the president of Niagara-on-the-Lake’s youth soccer club says the game’s future in this country now depends on what happens far from the big stadiums.
The St. Davids Firefighters Association bought Red Roof Retreat a $9,000 riding mower Thursday, covering an equipment cost the charity says it cannot spare from its $4.3-million building project.
Niagara-on-the-Lake’s annual Canada Day cake parade rolled into Simcoe Park on Wednesday behind an electric-converted Model T, drawing hundreds of residents, clad in red and white, for a slice of the town’s signature cake.
Those who knew Sínhue Garcia are grieving the loss of someone they say was a generous and caring person — and whose death has deepened fears about the rural roads farmworkers cycle every day.
As the federal government moves forward on plans to continue cutting Canada’s immigration levels, migrant farmworkers and their advocates pressed Ottawa for permanent residency at a Virgil rally.
For a sport that’s often fought for attention behind hockey, baseball and basketball in Canada, this year’s World Cup is giving soccer a boost that’s being felt across the country — including by players and their families here at home.
More than 5,000 residents and visitors returned to Simcoe Street for the annual, one-day, volunteer-run, start-of-summer festival, which supports the 200-year-old church.
Drums, handpan music and a sunset over Lake Ontario marked Niagara-on-the-Lake’s ninth summer solstice celebration on Sunday, after flooding washed out the larger Port Dalhousie event one city over.
A new used bookstore in Virgil is turning readers into donors, with every book, puzzle and game sold helping fund programs for seasonal agricultural workers in Niagara-on-the-Lake.
Visitors toured the gardens across Old Town and Queenston, with the biggest draw this year, and a new feature of the tour, being the McArthur Estate’s garden.
A rainy Sunday afternoon provided an unlikely backdrop for Antonio Vivaldi’s “Spring,” as Music Niagara opened its 28th summer festival with a concert featuring emerging Canadian musicians.
The annual Niagara-on-the-Lake versus Vineland farmworkers cricket match washed out Sunday for the first time in its roughly 35-year history, but the rain couldn’t stop the good vibes.
Now in its third year, the tour spanned 16 locations across town, giving the public a rare look inside daily routines behind artworks they would otherwise only ever see hanging on a wall.
Thirty-nine vendors, most with roots in Niagara, paid for tables at a new annual book expo Sunday to reach readers who will never find their work on a shelf at Indigo or through an Amazon search.
More than 80 members competed in the Tin Cup Pickleball Tournament across women’s, men’s and mixed divisions, marking a decade that saw the club’s formation and growth from a handful of players to roughly 575 members.
Niagara-on-the-Lake’s annual farmers’ market’s organizer says it’s waiting for more Niagara farmers to sign on, hoping to accommodate up to 40 vendors in its new, larger space.
Fort George National Historic Site brought Camp Niagara back from the dead last weekend, staging a full First World War re-enactment on the grounds where more than 75,000 soldiers trained before shipping overseas.
The 2026 Welcome Concert marked the 60th anniversary of Canada’s seasonal agricultural workers program and returned the Toronto Mass Choir to the stage for the first time since 2016.
With six or seven instructors and roughly 35 classes a week, the studio directly addresses the mental health demand psychotherapist Stacey Stemplowski has watched grow across Niagara since COVID-19.
The annual sale, which began in the early 1980s, runs Monday through Saturday from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. until late June.
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