St Catharines News

Toronto's five cent levy on the lowly plastic bag has been a successful social experiment, changing the way people shop.

Walking through his future workspace, Emergency Services Dr. Rafi Setrak can barely contain his excitement, not that he's really trying.

Police have recovered a vehicle believed involved in a hit and run accident last Sunday on Queenston Street in St.

St. Catharines mayor Brian McMullan made a presentation to the board Thursday highlighting cab problems in the city's core.

Next August, 200 years to the day of the War of 1812's worst naval disaster of the conflict, American and Canadian politicians and naval officials will honour the U.S. soldiers who lost their lives on the exact spot where the Hamilton and Scourge went down in Lake Ontario.

ST. CATHARINES, Ont.--Five Southern Ontaro residents and their alleged leader--a heavily tattooed Niagara- on-the-Lake resident--were arrested Wednesday by more than 150 agents after a 14-month investigation of cocaine trafficking in the Niagara Region.

ST. CATHARINES Niagara police believe they have arrested a major Niagara drug kingpin following a 14-month joint investigation which included the seizure of $30 million worth of cocaine from a St.

Brockville Collegiate Institute picked up five medals in six races at the Ontario high school rowing championships in Welland on the weekend.

Canadians will flood the U.S. border this summer to shop in numbers not seen in two decades, according to a BMO Capital Markets report released Thursday.

Welland's MPP is asking the provincial government put a hold on closing schools until they make good on a promise.

Members of the Chicagobased band Archie Powell and the Exports had their passports, clothing and computer-related equipment stolen from their van as they shopped in an Elmwood Avenue supermarket Friday afternoon.

Sayuri Gutierrez 17, and family hang out in their St.Catharines apartment on the afternoon of May 8, 2012.

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Minnan-Wong said he's open to all possibilities, but one idea could be to remove one of the existing four lanes between Bloor and Front Sts., extend the sidewalks and add proper bike lanes.

ST. CATHARINES, Ont. - A horseback rider is dead after a pickup truck struck her on a roadway near her family farm on Sunday southwest of Grimsby, Ont., police said.

Doris Rosado watches her teenage daughters, Ninette and Kiara Mongrut, get the numbers '666' tattooed on their wrists, beaming with pride.

Maritimers Unite for Medical Marijuana Society and cannabis advocates will gather at Victoria Park, Halifax on Saturday 5 May 2012 from 1:00 - 4:30 PM in opposition to the federal government's mishandling of the medical cannabis program.

ST. CATHARINES, Ont. - The provincially appointed supervisor of the Niagara Health System is calling for a new hospital in South Niagara in a restructuring that would close four other facilities.

The 1999 slaying of a former Buffalo man whose body was found in a water-filled St.

The 1999 slaying of a former Buffalo man whose body was found in a water-filled St.