Matthew P. Barker

“It’s important we recognize our municipal buildings that require attention and need investment. We’re slowly losing several of them simply because they’re being left to fall apart,” says Thorold Coun. Tim O;Hare.

Chief administrative officer Manoj Dilwaria says Niagara mayors and CAOs are meeting later this month to determine the best way to recruit physicians to the region.

A motion presented at Tuesday’s Thorold council meeting would see the practice of feeding birds and squirrels stopped in its tracks after it was deemed the cause for the increased rodent population in the city.

Thorold’s first McDonald’s is set to open Friday morning after years of excitement and anticipation has built to this moment.

“Every single call somebody goes to there’s a risk,” says Thorolf fire Chief Terry Dixon, who was honoured for his 40 years on the job.

Hospice Niagara updated Thorold city council on the progress of Walker House Welland at Tuesday’s council meeting

“The goal is to ensure every child served by BGC Niagara experiences the excitement and the wonder of the holidays,” says Kim Harrold, community engagement manager for BGC (formerly Boys and Girls Club).

The Out of the Cold meal program has seen an increase in the people they serve in the first couple of weeks they have offered their winter service.

Several tenants of an apartment building on Oakdale Avenue are fearful after receiving above guideline rent increases that could see them face homelessness.

Positive Living Niagara’s drug-checking machine is helping to educate people who use drugs about what is going on in the tested samples