If there's anything predictable about minor sports, it's that it's unpredictable. The Brockville Braves are in the semifinals of the Ontario Little League championships after topping favoured Orleans 5-3 in another thriller here Wednesday. Using strong pitching performances from Ben Bertrend and Jamie Ashton, Brockville received a grand [...]

Liberal Leader Stephane Dion won a few handshakes but no votes when he waded into a group of a dozen protesters before a meeting Wednesday afternoon to discuss his Green Shift plan to reduce carbon emissions in Canada. "You're not getting my vote," said Stephen Kirkwood, who nevertheless shook [...]

The Harper government will invest nearly $7 billion into Ontario's aging infrastructure under a deal with the province to be announced today, the Toronto Star reported. Federal representatives say the investment will help cushion Ontario's economic troubles, and that the new cash will mean construction projects and more jobs [...]

Some city business owners have had more than sales and customers on their minds lately. A rash of overnight break-ins to businesses throughout Brockville is causing fear and calls for police to step up patrols downtown and bring in outside help if necessary to apprehend whoever is responsible. [...]

If you haven't really made it as a tourism hot spot until you've got your own souvenir spoon, well then, Brockville has finally made it. Brockville and District Tourism has unveiled what one staffer said is the first-ever city souvenir collector spoon. On the bowl of the four-inch, [...]

The uproar caused by Leeds and Thousand Islands Township's decision to remove 100 feet of hedge near Rockport's waterfront last week was just the tip of the iceberg. As more construction began on Front Street in Rockport on Monday morning, the usually booming business at the Boathouse Country Inn [...]

Canadians appear to be changing their habits, including leaving their cars in the garage more often, as a result of sky-high gasoline prices that eat into disposable income, new sales figures indicate. Retail sales in Canada rose a lackadaisical 0.4 per cent in May - off from the previous [...]

Of all the competitions going on at the Summer Olympics in Beijing, the one for most popular Canadian in China is already decided. That accolade belongs to Mark Rowswell, who won't compete in a single Olympic event but has long been a popular television personality and the biggest foreign [...]

Two months after a devastating fire left them homeless, officials with the Thousand Islands Habitat for Humanity ReStore still have more questions about their future than answers. Foul play hasn't been ruled out as a cause of the May 29 fire that caused more than $150,000 damage to the [...]

Radovan Karadzic grew a long, white beard to conceal his identity and even managed to openly practise alternative medicine while in hiding, officials said today in revealing details of the war crimes fugitive's capture after more than a decade on the run. Karadzic, the wartime leader of Bosnian Serbs, [...]

Canada's wireless landscape faces a major shakeup over the next year with the potential addition of a national and several regional cellphone providers offering users more services, options and lower charges. The federal government's wireless spectrum auction concluded Monday with 15 firms - current and prospective entrants - bidding [...]

The OPP is once again urging drivers to slow down on eastern Ontario roads. The call for more restraint from drivers comes as the provincial force released statistics Monday showing 35 people have been killed in motor vehicle crashes in this region so far this year. That's actually [...]

Her tiny frame and the shy smile that peeks out from under the brim of a ball cap that's several sizes too big belie a strength that's nothing short of Olympian. And that remarkable inner fight has put Matayah Tuck - the 10-year-old girl whose spirited battle with Wilms [...]

From the depths of the personal "hell" in grieving the loss of her daughter this year, Shelley Saunders reached out to another family Saturday in hopes their journey will have a happier ending. Saunders hugged 10-year-old Matayah Tuck tightly after presenting the Mallorytown girl's family with a cheque for [...]

Hundreds of Canadian soldiers and their allies gathered under a golden sunset sky to bid farewell to Cpl. James Hayward Arnal as he began his final journey home Sunday. A flag-draped coffin was lifted onto a military plane during a solemn ceremony at Kandahar Airfield for the 88th Canadian [...]

RCMP said Friday that money from the sales of counterfeit items like handbags and jewelry seized during a raid at the 1000 Islands Mall this week was being funnelled to gangsters and terrorists around the world. "The danger aspect for these types of products is the funding aspect of [...]

On the tip of an island where Lake Ontario flows into the St. Lawrence River stands a piece of history slowly crumbling into so many yesterdays when it was once the grandest estate in the Thousand Islands. More than a century ago, before the famous Boldt Castle and Singer [...]