Monday night's debate moved through 14 questions on growth, taxes, transparency, tourism, climate change and how the next mayor should lead. The forum also exposed clear differences in how each candidate would approach the job.
When the Canadian Community Newsmedia Award winners were unveiled Monday, The Lake Report garnered 22 more national awards, bringing its provincial and national total to 192 since 2020, when the paper started entering industry award competitions.
The lifelong NOTL resident is speaking publicly about what he sees as NOTL’s biggest threat: overdevelopment. "I think that it needs to be reined in — and reined in responsibly," he says.
For McGuinness, who is running for NOTL council, and his husband, Gary Guthrie, belonging has looked like nights at the Shaw, wine country dinners and bringing his grandchildren to the Virgil Stampede.
After 15 years at the helm of award-winning winemaking and innovation at Château des Charmes, Amélie Boury is packing up cherished memories and moving on.
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.
For some, the idea of igniting a 19th-century-style weapon may be intimidating. But for Baird Tucker, it’s a “once-in-a-lifetime experience” he couldn’t pass up — especially in front of his son.
As soccer fans count down the days until the final match of the tournament, set for July 19, the Town of NOTL is inviting residents and seasonal farmworkers to gather for a community viewing of the championship match.
The luxury automotive and lifestyle event will take place Sept. 18 and 19 in Niagara Falls and Niagara-on-the-Lake, featuring an expanded aviation, yacht, motorcycle and automotive display at the airport.
The self-guided tour will feature eight private gardens across Niagara-on-the-Lake, showcasing a variety of landscaping styles, flower beds, water features and garden designs.
About 390 metres of concrete sewer pipe will be replaced as part of Mississagua Street's reconstruction starting later this year. Town staff said the additional work will not extend the project's timeline.
The nine-jet Royal Canadian Air Force demonstration team was in southern Ontario as part of a visit to the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum in Hamilton, drawing eyes skyward across the region.
Hoverlink says final permitting for an 18-acre South Shore waterfront terminal on Lake Ontario is expected to be completed in late 2026. The company still hopes to launch the service in 2028.
Niagara-on-the-Lake is cramming a lot into one June weekend: strawberry treats, live music, Father’s Day at Fort George and a summer solstice celebration, plus other fun activities.
The curtain falls on the Royal George Theatre. As the final section of its landmark Queen Street facade
comes down, a building woven into generations of Niagara-on-the-Lake memories takes its final bow.
After picking up passengers at Niagara Falls Marriott on the Falls, the bus scheduled to leave NOTL at 11:20 a.m. mistakenly headed toward Pearson before returning to the airport for its pickup.
The developer behind a new St. Davids subdivision came to town with a request to change its plans for a new block of townhouses and was met with disapproval from half of council, with questions about the proposal will impact St. Davids' already-strained stormwater system.
Melanie Farquhar on Johnston Street has watched the shooting of the film adaptation of romance novel "Beach Read" next door for a week. She says it's been a front-row seat to something special.
The program offers municipalities up to 90 per cent funding for eligible projects to support housing, but they must reduce residential development charges by 30 to 50 per cent, or more, for at least three years.
Council backed recommended long-term funding targets, which would mean tax and rate increases over the next five to 20 years in an effort to close that gap.
One councillor questioned how much say the town has when regional work affects local traffic, saying the relationship between the region and NOTL appears to be a “top-down relationship.”
The agency that helps Niagara young people struggling with mental health problems has launched a major new campaign to pay off the mortgage on its headquarters and free up millions of dollars to treat kids at the grassroots level.
Life is busier than ever these days in this part of the province, but for Felicia Izaguirre Werner, the hustle and bustle of Niagara is a welcome sign of how much the place she's from has grown.
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.
