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2016 BEA: Tourism & Hospitality award finalists
Sponsored by Caesars Windsor/OLG Canadian Club Brand Centre Tish Harcus The Canadian Club Brand Centre, located at 2072 Riverside Dr. E., allows patrons and tourists to learn about Canadian Whisky on...
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Stolen boat recovered in Amherstburg
A boat stolen from an Amherstburg storage yard has been recovered. Amherstburg police said the boat was reported stolen from a storage yard on Alma Street on April 10. Police received information the...
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Amherstburg man faces numerous gun charges
An Amherstburg man is facing numerous gun charges after he fired a gun into the ground over the weekend. Amherstburg police said they received a call around 5:30 p.m. on April 16 about a discharged...
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Movie screening helps three-year-old's cancer battle
If you want to help out Mason Macri in his battle with a rare form of cancer, head to the movies Sunday morning. A special screening of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice is scheduled for 10 a.m....
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Ghost Light Players putting theatre in non-theatrical spaces
A new travelling troupe of actors and actresses is ushering in theatre wherever they go in Windsor and Essex County. Like the travelling band of actors in Shakespeare’s Hamlet, the Ghost Light Players...
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Festival of Birds: Get birdwatchers back for more, say tourism officials
Windsor-Essex needs to do more than cater to thousands of birdwatchers coming to Point Pelee this spring. It needs to invite them back. “You might not do it this time because you’re really focused on...
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Tecumseh man charged in connection with restaurant break-ins
A man has been charged in connection with two break-ins at restaurants along Tecumseh Road. In December of 2015, a suspect entered Fongs Villa in the 13000 block of Tecumseh Road East and stole money...
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Windsor in Pictures: April 19, 2016
Windsor Star’s award-winning photographers covered the city and county Tuesday. Check out the gallery. Lynette Bain, vice president of Tourism Programming and Development at Tourism Windsor Essex Pelee...
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Windsor in Pictures: April 20, 2016
Windsor Star’s award-winning photographers covered the city and county Wednesday. Check out the gallery. Blooming daffodils frame Willistead Manor on a beautiful spring day April 20, 2016. HARROW,...
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Most happy with new hospital site
Re: 1,121 sign petition opposing proposed mega-hospital site, by Brian Cross, April 16. I am sorry, Philippa Von Ziegenweidt, but 1,121 signatures out of a population of 216,473 (city) and 395,614...
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Education Minister Liz Sandals to make pair of local announcements Monday
Education Minister Liz Sandals will be in Windsor and Essex County to make a pair of announcements on Monday. Sandals will first be at Kingsville District High School, arriving at 11:30 a.m. and making...
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OPP pilot program aims to make Internet purchases safer
The Ontario Provincial Police and the Town of Tecumseh are partnering up to create a new program aimed at making purchase exchanges arranged over the Internet safer. Dubbed Project Safe Trade, the...
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NDP MPPs do nothing for Essex County
Re: We don’t need Grits to get roads cash, by Percy Hatfield, April 21. My Windsor-Tecumseh NDP MPP brings up a valid point, which most of us here in Essex County should know by now. Hatfield points...
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Windsor In Pictures: April 22, 2016
Rev. Nicholas Mauro-Ika talks about the developments of Jonathon Nicola at St. Alphonsus Church, Friday, April 22, 2016. From left, Tecumseh Mayor Gary McNamara, OPP Insp. Glenn Miller and OPP Sgt....
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Windsor Weekend in Pictures: April 23-34, 2016
Windsor Star photographer Dax Melmer covered the city and county this weekend. Check out the gallery. Yellow tape surrounds a house at 402 Alymer Ave. after an early morning fire caused extensive...
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Province announces $44M for new Kingsville super school
The town of Kingsville is getting what may be the most expensive school the province has ever built after Education Minister Liz Sandals announced funding for a $44-million JK-to-Grade 12 school Monday...
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Hospital site decided: 'Get over it.'
Re: 1,121 sign petition opposing proposed mega-hospital site, by Brian Cross, April 16. Some people cannot see the forest for the trees. The government has already paid for four years of planning the...
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Officials hopeful new levies will help move mega-hospital forward
The new levy approved Monday night by Windsor councillors, on top of a similar tax OK’d last week by Essex County, could mean the province will soon move forward with a proposed $2-billion...
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Windsor in Pictures: April 26, 2016
Windsor Star’s award-winning photographers covered the city and county Tuesday. Check out the gallery. A person wearing a bright orange jump suit, foreground, ducks below the window in a prisoner...
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One killed, six injured in multi-vehicle crash on Highway 3
One person is dead and six were transported to hospital after a five-vehicle crash on Highway 3 Wednesday that left a debris field stretching for about 200 metres down the roadway. Emergency crews were...
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