By SAMANTHA CORBETT Staff Writer Water. It’s such a simple thing, but to some Guatemalans it’s the difference between life and death. Who knows better than Ted van der Zalm? After all, he has made his living operating a well-digging company. He is also the founder of Wells of Hope, a Niagara-based...

By THERESA REDULA Staff Writer Since arriving in Niagara region almost four years ago, Uber Canada is currently facing a lawsuit after a 21-year-old woman was allegedly sexually assaulted by one of the ride-sharing company’s drivers in Toronto. Uber senior communications associate Josh McConnell...

By LINDSAY SMITH Staff Writer Experts are uncertain if the federal government’s mortgage incentives for first-time homebuyers, introduced in the 2019 budget last month, will have a significant impact on housing affordability. Ryan Johnstone, broker-manager with Royal LePage NRC Realty, says...

By SAMANTHA CORBETT Staff Writer Hundreds of students from Welland Centennial Secondary School shouted “students say no!” as they walked out of class and marched in front of their school to protest Doug Ford’s proposed changes to the education system. Across the province, thousands of students...

By LINDSAY TWEEDLE Staff Writer A woman or girl was killed in Canada every 2 1/2 days in 2018, according to a report on femicide released early this year, and more than half of them were killed by a male intimate partner. “One woman a year dying as the result of femicide is too many, so the fact...

By ALY LANCIONE Staff Writer More than a dozen people from across Ontario protested outside the Niagara Detention Centre recently, calling for changes to the correctional system. “There’s a lot of problems. Inmates aren’t getting proper medical attention and they’re understaffed so we’re...

By LISA KELLEY Staff Writer Come join community experts, naturalists and citizen scientists at Niagara College, Niagara-on-the-Lake campus greenhouse, for the fourth annual BioBlitz, which is set to take place from 6 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Apr. 13. A BioBlitz is an event where citizen scientists collect...

By RILEY RADOBENKO Staff Writer After a 167-year tenure, the Niagara Regional Exhibition (NRE) will no longer be held in the fall when it returns in 2019. The annual Niagara fair is now an early-summer event with the dates scheduled for June 7 to June 9. “We decided to rebrand,” said Ray Ravazzolo,...

By TALA MUHTADI Staff Writer A new study says things are looking up for working women in Canada. The 2019 CIBC Women & Wealth Study found the number of women in high-paying occupations is on the rise, the wage gap is slowly narrowing, and women’s earnings currently make up the largest share...