These are some pounds members of a St. Catharines weight loss program didn't mind piling up. Over the past six weeks, clients and staff at Weight Watchers have been gathering thousands of pounds of food for the needy while shedding weight of their own.[...]

Marianne Gillespie's Monday has been a multitasking frenzy. After a non-stop morning, she took a breather by a mound of employee shirts inside her St. Catharines water services company. "I've had to get my ducks in order today," she said with a smile.[...]

Toronto's Pan Am Games win is also a sports jackpot for Niagara. That was the sentiment of local bid organizers and politicians who are thrilled Toronto and its GTA partners prevailed to host the 2015 Pan Am Games.[...]

The Niagara IceDogs started and finished poorly as they dropped a 9-3 decision to the Erie Otters in an Ontario Hockey League game played Friday night before 3,107 fans at the Tullio Centre. Niagara fell behind 3-0 in the first period before rallying to make it 3-2 late in the second.[...]

Re:You don't need faith to live a moral life(Oct. 31).[...]

While vacationing in small-town Ontario this summer, my wife decided to fulfill her moral obligation to contribute to the local economy (aka shopping in some circles). We spied with our little eyes a department store whose name cannot be revealed for ethical reasons .[...]

It wasn't planned but Brock's Didi Mukendi will certainly take his game-winning basket Friday night against the Ottawa GeeGees.[...]

Paul Sirignano had Friday, Nov. 6 circled on the calendar for quite some time. The former St. Catharines Falcon hasn't played a game in St. Catharines in more than a year due to injury, but more than made up for lost time Friday.[...]

Nick Parkin needs only to look at the action going on at this weekend's national wheelchair tennis championships at White Oaks to realize the scope of his coaching accomplishments. Of the 22 athletes competing at the largest wheelchair tennis tournament in Canada, 10 are from Ontario.[...]

GRIMSBY — Missing two key players out with swine flu, the visiting St. Michael's Mustangs football team rose to the challenge Friday and knocked off the Blessed Trinity Thunder 7-3 in Premier League semifinal action.[...]

It was an obscure joke that didn't have much currency in Canada. But it was enough to make the Duchess of Cornwall smile. Ralph Frayne had just shaken the hand of Prince Charles Thursday aboard the HMCS Haida — the destroyer Frayne had served on during the Second World War.[...]

The lineups have sometimes been long at Niagara's flu vaccination clinics, but the one thing they have not been is chaotic. Officials at Niagara's public health department say that is because a computer software system, developed by the department's staff, is keeping things running smoothly.[...]

After months spent fighting to keep their school open, students at Niagara District Secondary School had no desire to see the people who decided to close it on their graduation day Friday.[...]

Rex is the kind of well-behaved and loyal canine that keeps close to his master. But that changed Wednesday when Rex fled in terror after being hit by a car at White Oaks Conference Resort and Spa in Niagara-on-the-Lake.[...]

A Niagara-on-the-Lake couple was hospitalized early Friday with smoke inhalation after their home went up in flames. The couple got out of the house at 1890 Lakeshore Rd. on their own after fire broke out about 3 a.[...]

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Firefighters doused a sport utility vehicle that burst into flames on St. Paul Street just before 1 p.m. The black Ford Escape was pulled over on the side of the street near the intersection of St. Paul and Ontario Street when flames and billowing smoke erupted from under the hood.[...]

A St. Catharines woman was critically injured in a car crash that closed a section of Glendale Avenue in St. Catharines overnight. The 23-year-old victim is being treated in the intensive care unit at Hamilton General Hospital.[...]

It is usually a monumental struggle to make Canadian military history vital in the eyes of citizens, but James Elliott, who is speaking in St. Catharines this weekend, manages to prevail in superlative fashion in his epic work, Strange Fatality: The Battle of Stoney Creek, 1813.[...]

the body's natural metronome -- a steady, pulsating tempo, which guides movement. The ancient art of dance has changed its steps many times but keeps its beat through nonverbal communication, the language of motion.[...]