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With COVID-19 cases surging again in Niagara, there was no way to host the Port Colborne Community Christmas Dinner the way it has been done for the past 24 years. But rather than throw in the towel for the big dinner, which brought more than 200 people together for all the Christmas dinner fixings last year at Port Colborne High School, the idea came to event organizer Gloria Simon to move the entire thing to people’s homes and deliver piping hot, fresh Christmas dinner right to people’s front doors.

The potential influx of gym-goers from Hamilton, where cases of COVID-19 are higher than here in Niagara, has long-time GoodLife in Grimsby member Nathan Hann concerned, not just for his own personal safety, but also about the potential spread of the virus across regions, as people living in areas with higher restrictions travel to cities with fewer limitations.

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‘PHYSICAL ALTERCATION WHICH ESCALATED TO GUNFIRE’: Niagara Regional Police are seeking witnesses or footage from dash cams or surveillance cameras to help them investigate multiple shootings just north of Clifton Hill in Niagara Falls Halloween night that sent several young men to hospital with gunshot wounds.

Since it was abandoned in 1930, the remains of Erie Beach Park have been slowing finding themselves reclaimed by Mother Nature, and a storm she whipped up this week toppled more of those remnants.

The friendly faces of the Shaw Guild were back on Queen Street this past weekend, and will continue to be present into late December.

Jordan Snobelen concludes his three-part series discussion of women in agriculture. Since deciding at only 16 years old that she would one day be a winemaker, Sue-Ann Staff has made wine her life’s work. As a successful businessperson running her own operation, Staff has spoken at a range of events highlighting women in business. But ultimately her participation is more out of a sense of obligation she yearns for the day when gender is no longer the hot topic of discussion.

A car being driven suspiciously around a parking lot in Niagara-on-the-Lake caught the attention of police, leading to nine charges against the two people inside.

LIVE VIDEO: Doug Ford to be joined by provincial cabinet ministers Rod Phillips (finance) and Dr. Merrilee Fullerton (long-term care) at 1 p.m. COVID-19 update

The St. Catharines fire and combat team will be bringing the heat in 2021 all in support of a good cause. They’re once again releasing a charity calendar in support of Pathstone Mental Health, this time using all their own resources to do it,

Years of studies, reports, planning and public protests are coming to a conclusion in Port Colborne as the city is set to finally make a decision on regulating mining operations.

As if our municipal voting system wasn’t bloated enough, there was a very real push to move to a ranked ballot system for the next election. Thankfully, the provincial government stepped in earlier this month and tossed that idea in the trash where it belongs.

Soybeans are overwhelmingly the most prominent field crop in Niagara Region, with Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs data showing the largest concentration in Wainfleet and West Lincoln.

After spending about four hours defending his decision to implement new restrictions at bars and food services establishments to reduce the spread of COVID-19, the Region’s acting medical officer of health was asked to rescind a key part of those orders.

Here's a round up of Niagara police reports you may have missed over the weekend.

News Media Canada, of which this publication is a member, is asking the Canadian government to implement new measures that would save media companies from being bled dry by tech giants such as Google and Facebook. Here's what a few Niagara MPs have to say. #defangbigtech

Haldimand County’s temporary face covering bylaw is set to expire Nov. 3 and council is not extending the bylaw as stricter, provincially-mandated regulations are now in effect.

Satchel is a young dog with a penchant for adventure, hopping aboard a magic train that takes him around the world where he meets plenty of new friends. That’s the imaginary world a Fenwick man has created for the real-life Satchel, who actually has had some adventure of his own in his three years.

TO SERVE THE COMMUNITY, AND TO GIVE BACK TO THE COMMUNITY : When Terry Yungblut became a firefighter, it was a different job. The training, technology and sheer number of calls they respond to now pales in comparison to Thorold’s volunteer firefighters deal with today. But throughout, the reason Yungblut and others continued to volunteer is the same.

BY THE NUMBERS: Niagara saw 27 new COVID-19 cases in the last day. In the last week there's been 117 new cases, the previous week there was 93

A late-night shooting in Niagara Falls on Halloween sent multiple victims to hospital with serious but non-life threatening injuries.

Niagara Regional Police Service’s homicide unit is investigating an overnight shooting incident in Lincoln that left one man dead.

When the Ontario Energy Board or OEB announced last month that fixed rates in response to COVID-19 were ending Nov. 1 and that it was now offering two options for billing, John Purvis, a retiree from Colborne, Ont., found himself with more questions than answers.