1+ day, 22+ hour ago  (723+ words) Save Our Rand Estate says Benny Marotta's latest proposal for Niagara-on-the-Lake's Rand Estate is not a reset, but the same battle all over again. The new application, deemed complete by town staff, proposes a five-storey hotel with 111 rooms, a spa…...

4+ day, 11+ hour ago  (684+ words) Some people are driven into politics by an issue. A cause. A crusade. Others just crave being elected. In power. In public. Drawing attention. Building an image. This will be Andrea Kaiser's seventh election. She's won a few. Lost the…...

4+ day, 12+ hour ago  (494+ words) What may be Canada's oldest lawn bowling club is heading into its 150th year with one problem: not enough people know this timeless sport exists. The Niagara-on-the-Lake Lawn Bowling Club opened its 149th season Saturday with a bagpipe parade and ceremonial first…...

4+ day, 11+ hour ago  (751+ words) In an article published earlier this month, Richard Dawkins, world-renowned evolutionary biologist, claimed that'following 72 hours of back-and-forth conversation with Claude " Anthropic's chatbot equivalent to Chat GPT " he was convinced Claude was conscious, citing as evidence that Claude had passed the…...

4+ day, 12+ hour ago  (827+ words) We live in a time where democracy is threatened. A world in which autocracy is on the rise in countries that claim to be free and democratic. A world wherein the power of social media is utilized and carefully crafted…...

4+ day, 11+ hour ago  (545+ words) Kitten season is here in Niagara, meaning animal shelters are beginning to experience an influx of newborn kittens coming in " some more than they can handle. In that regard, local animal welfare group Community Initiative for Animal Rescue is working…...

4+ day, 12+ hour ago  (415+ words) An hour before the Niagara-on-the-Lake Horticultural Society's annual plant sale opened Saturday, shoppers were already queueing outside the Meridian Credit Union Arena " by 9 a. m. the line stretched the length of the building, and two minutes later, every hellebore was gone. Susan…...

4+ day, 11+ hour ago  (455+ words) After a developer demolished part of a nearly 200-year-old schoolhouse without the Town of Niagara-on-the-Lake's approval last month, the municipality says it's monitoring the situation and figuring out its next steps to keep any more destruction from taking place. The…...

4+ day, 12+ hour ago  (1225+ words) No matter how hard we work, and how clever we are, sometimes something goes right. A perfect example of this was NOTL In Bloom last weekend. Not one person had even the slightest complaint. Every comment was as positive as…...

4+ day, 12+ hour ago  (453+ words) Niagara-on-the-Lake is my home. I have lived here my whole life. I'm 13 years old and I go to Royal Oak Community School right in Niagara-on-the-Lake. It is also the only grade school in the town. I want to tell you…...