Allan Benner

Niagara Health says upgrades will add complex care beds and a residential addictions treatment program while keeping operations running.

Mike Haines earned a reputation for tenacity while helping constituents resolve cases involving housing, scams and government services.

Thirty-unit Academy Street modular building expected to be built quickly as city looks ahead to more housing developments.

REACH Niagara's 22 physicians are nearly doubling their reach to unhoused residents living in encampments and shelters, providing primary health care where traditional clinics can't reach.

Niagara Region committee backs calls for more transparency, supports and community safety planning when establishing homeless shelters.

Health officials warn people with respiratory illnesses, unhoused residents face heightened danger.

Officials point to a rise in school offences, specialty vape stores and retailers charged with selling to minors.

As smoke from northern Ontario fires reaches Niagara, hundreds of evacuees are finding shelter in the city while experts warn bigger wildfires may become more common.

Niagara Health points to $12.2M investment as a way to reduce UCC demand after another temporary closure.

CUPE 911 releases videos showing the mental health toll on paramedics earning 20 per cent less than police in Niagara Region. Strike action expected if contract talks fail.