Black Friday Sale Save 50% Sign In search Newsletters Today’s paper HOME MY LOCAL CANADA POLITICS WORLD OPINION LIFE SPORTS ENTERTAINMENT BUSINESS OBITUARIES Latest News Headlines EDITOR’S PICKS NIAGARA REGION Close to 5,500 Niagara kids booked for COVID vaccinations 1 hr ago NIAGARA REGION Niagara women’s shelters experiencing demand for service ‘never seen before’ Today is International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women 8 hrs ago NIAGARA REGION Niagara Regional Police officers to get two per cent pay increases annually for six years in new contract CRIME Port Colborne entertainer who played Santa convicted on child pornography charges CRIME Seven charged after guns, ammunition seized in St. Catharines CRIME Voyeur banned from working at retail businesses with a women’s change room MUSIC FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre season includes John Cleese, Johnny Reid 3 hrs ago LOCAL : FOOD WINE St. Catharines restaurant makes sure customers won’t get ‘board’ downtown 14 hrs ago CRIME Hamilton police seized 35 guns; over $3 million in pot from medical cannabis scheme 1 hr ago LIFE Niagara Nature: Nature’s amazing drills 12 hrs ago TELEVISION After ten episodes, Niagara’s Erika Casupanan still in the thick of it on Survivor Sidesteps another threat, now in the game’s final seven players 6 hrs ago PROVINCIAL POLITICS Do children need vaccine passports? Not now, Ontario says 1 hr ago GTA Ontario has reported nearly 7,000 school-related COVID cases since the school year started There are 694 Ontario schools with a reported case of COVID-19, more than 14 per cent of the province’s schools. Sixteen schools are closed due to... 7 hrs ago WORLD WHO discusses new COVID-19 variant with ‘unusual’ mutations EUROPE Portugal returns to COVID restrictions despite high jab rate FREE DIGITAL ACCESS Today’s coronavirus news: Ontario reports 748 cases; province still in fourth wave as cases rise, says Ontario’s top doctor GTA Who’s getting sick? Report sheds new light on breakthrough cases and vaccine protection against hospitalization CRIME Targeted shooting at York and Old Guelph roads leaves one man seriously injured; two arrests made 1 hr ago PROVINCIAL POLITICS Conservatives defend troubled online registry that law firms say is hurting Ontario businesses 32 mins ago CANADA Canada committed to 40,000 Afghan refugees. 3,500 have made it. A piece of paper stands in the way 2 hrs ago WORLD Their own words may have doomed men who killed Ahmaud Arbery 4 hrs ago GTA Killings of women and girls up again in Canada in 2021 as researchers point to pandemic stresses According to the Canadian Femicide Observatory, 92 women and girls were killed in the first six months of 2021. 2 hrs ago OPINION STAR EDITORIAL BOARD Once again, the Ford government is falling short on the environment 2 hrs ago RICK SALUTIN François Legault’s plan to restore Quebec hockey to glory is easier said than done 2 hrs ago VS VONNY SWEETLAND Why the Kyle Rittenhouse acquittal stabs at the heart of the BIPOC community 6 hrs ago SC SYLVAIN CHARLEBOIS Food theft on the rise with prices 11 hrs ago SKIP ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Recommended For You NIAGARA REGION Hirji calls for more restrictions after outbreaks at five sports venues 23 hrs ago STAR EXCLUSIVE Doug Ford’s glitchy online business registry has major law firms telling clients to avoid Ontario 23 hrs ago CRIME Anti-masker fined and jailed for 90 days after spitting at store worker, Niagara cop 1 day ago CRIME Impaired driving charge laid against 80-year-old Niagara woman in fatal crash 1 day ago ENTERTAINMENT Bryan Adams tests positive for COVID in Italy 6 hrs ago LETTERS TO THE EDITOROPINION Opinion 1 day ago Want even more personalized content? Register Now Niagara Region News BASKETBALL Photo: Top ’Dogs on home court 27 mins ago NIAGARA REGION St. Catharines YMCA services still limited, even as other Niagara branches have fully reopened Negotiations to sell Walker facility taking longer than expected; CEO hopes for December resolution 1 hr ago BUSINESS Downtown St. Catharines businesses feeling a sense of familiarity BASKETBALL Brock lives up to its national ranking on basketball court HOCKEY No. 12 Mark Forster is No. 1 as far as Welland junior-B team is concerned NIAGARA REGION Niagarans urged to focus on eliminating gender-based violence NIAGARA REGION Gates re-tables legislation for OHIP to always cover prostate cancer screening tests Niagara Falls NDP MPP says move would help save lives 4 hrs ago COUNCIL Use of Welland Community Wellness Complex passes reached with Grand Canal Retirement Residence 5 hrs ago COUNCIL Welland-owned water booster pumping station at Hunters Pointe to be operated by Niagara Region 5 hrs ago COUNCIL Paving project at Welland Transit’s operations centre to be completed 5 hrs ago SKIP ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT My Local Select a community for local news LOCAL : NEWS Last chance to apply for Grimsby's Digital Main Street 3 hrs ago LOCAL : NEWS New owners of Travelodge hotel in Niagara Falls planning major investments 4 hrs ago LOCAL : NEWS Santa to visit Bowden Street Christmas display in Fort Erie 5 hrs ago POLITICS POLITICS Quebec reports 882 COVID-19 cases, one death as hospitalizations rise 1 day ago STAR EXCLUSIVE Doug Ford’s glitchy online business registry has major law firms telling clients to avoid Ontario 23 hrs ago POLITICS Quebec’s under-12 vaccination campaign advances amid rise in new COVID-19 cases 3 hrs ago CANADA CANADA ‘We can’t continue to go from failure to failure’: Environment watchdog slams Canada’s — and Justin Trudeau’s — record fighting climate change 45 mins ago CANADA Heartbroken loved ones recount how B.C. mudslide swept away man well-known in Toronto’s restaurant scene 1 day ago CANADA Saskatchewan extends COVID-19 measures to limit transmission over holiday season 3 hrs ago CANADA New border crossing rules getting pushback 10 hrs ago CANADA Nova Scotia mass killing helped drive high national homicide rate in 2020: StatCan 3 hrs ago CANADA David Suzuki apologizes for ‘blown up’ pipelines remark after backlash from Alberta 2 hrs ago BUSINESS BUSINESSOPINION Fight inflation with these ‘dividend kings’ 11 hrs ago INNOVATIONPARTNER CONTENT Connecting B.C. to the rest of the world, reigniting Canada’s auto manufacturing sector and other news 52 mins ago BUSINESS Labour group says Liberals are failing workers with new ‘lockdown’ benefit 6 hrs ago WORLD WORLD Their own words may have doomed men who killed Ahmaud Arbery The video of Ahmaud Arbery’s shotgun death was a shocking piece of evidence that suddenly brought the Black man’s killing into the national consciousness. 3 hrs ago WORLD Bryan Adams tests positive for COVID in Italy 6 hrs ago UNITED STATES Polyp in Biden’s colon was benign, potentially pre-cancerous 7 hrs ago ASIA Philippines rejects China’s demand to remove ship from shoal 12 hrs ago SKIP ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT SPORTS FOOTBALL Explosive offense has No. 16 Utah atop Pac-12 South again SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A potent offense has given Utah another chance to play for a Pac-12 Conference championship. 6 hrs ago LEAFSANALYSIS Maple Leafs’ inevitable offensive explosion arrives in Campbell’s return to Los Angeles 7 hrs ago HOCKEY OHL Roundup: Knights slay Spitfires with 5-2 win, Firebirds crush Spirit 21 hrs ago LEAFS Josh Ho-Sang says coaches would warn kids not to play like him. 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