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.
The Stampede celebrated its 59th year this past weekend, and an organizer says focusing on families and adding more children’s rides has eliminated most security problems the carnival had in the past.
A thunderstorm did not stop people from turning out on Saturday for the opening of the military fort in Niagara-on-the-Lake that has overlooked the waters of the Niagara River for 210 years.
A new wellness event series raised its first funds for Niagara Health Foundation last weekend, starting small but backed by an organizer who previously helped raise $1 million for Niagara hospitals.
What may be Canada’s oldest lawn bowling club is heading into its 150th year with one problem: not enough people know this timeless sport exists.
Kitten season is here in Niagara, meaning animal shelters are beginning to experience an influx of newborn kittens coming in — some more than they can handle.
An hour before the annual plant sale opened Saturday, shoppers were already queueing outside — by 9 a.m. the line stretched the length of the building, and two minutes later, every hellebore was gone.
Blue skies brought a smoother opening weekend at TASC Tulip Farm than last year, but a storm is building as the town says the festival is operating in violation of its bylaws.
Persistent plastic litter and microplastics along the Lake Ontario shoreline are driving a summer-long cleanup campaign that launched Saturday at Queen’s Royal Park where 24 volunteers collected 5,640 pieces of litter.
The Niagara Bethany Handbell Choir marked 50 years in Niagara-on-the-Lake by reuniting youth ringers and alumni who have kept its music and charity work alive.
Artist Victoria Wallace represents daily life as a precarious tightrope walk through surreal animal imagery in a new exhibition at the Niagara Pumphouse Arts Centre.
Red Roof Retreat is now $300,000 shy of hitting its multi-million-dollar goal to build a new facility, after selling out its annual pasta dinner, held Sunday evening.
Niagara-on-the-Lake added a new chapter to its arts scene Sunday as writers from across Canada competed in the first Karen Gansel Short Fiction Award, a national contest created to honour a longtime advocate for Canadian authors.
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