With 169-year-old Assumption Church poised to be shuttered following mass this weekend, parishioners are making a last-minute appeal to the Diocese of London to keep the doors open.
Some angry parents of students at Anderdon Public Elementary School are claiming their children are getting a trick and no treat in the wake of a decision by school administration to scale back traditional Halloween festivities.
Volunteer models will strut their stuff during the third annual Colours of Courage Fashion Show, a fundraiser for In Honour of the Ones We Love, Sunday at the Ciociaro Club.
Hollie Leamont is a 39-year-old Windsor woman with perhaps a year to live unless she gets that phone call telling her a pair of donor lungs are available.
A terrified deer caused some mayhem and made a mess Thursday when it crashed through the front window of a doctor’s office on Howard Avenue, then barricaded itself in a bathroom.
Former teammates with the Windsor Spitfires collided in Edmonton Wednesday. Taylor Hall of the Edmonton Oilers was hit hard by Ryan Ellis of the Nashville Predators. http://video.nhl.com/videocenter/console?catid=-6&id=657205&cmpid=rss-whatsnew
Former Windsor Spitfires captain Paul McFarland returns to town Thursday to face his former team for the first time as head coach of the Kingston Frontenacs.
AlphaKOR Group has acquired Canadian Computer Distributors -- a move that "solidifies the firm's position as the leading full technology partner" in Windsor and Essex County.
DETROIT - The U.S. government's auto safety agency, responding to criticism of its slow response to safety issues, told the manufacturer of millions of potentially faulty air bags to make replacement parts faster and do more testing to find the cause of the problem.
We were recently honoured and privileged to have been chosen as one of several charities by Unifor Local 200 to receive a significant donation in support of our charitable efforts.
A lot of questions are being asked in Windsor as a shocked city licks its wounds over the Ford Motor Company’s aborted $1.5-billion engine plant investment here.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A giant, indeed. Madison Bumgarner punctuated a World Series performance for the ages by pitching the San Francisco Giants to their third championship in five years with a 3-2 win over the Kansas City Royals on Wednesday night.
JERUSALEM — The UN agency that assists Palestinian refugees says Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai has donated $50,000 to rebuild a UN school in Gaza damaged during this summer’s Israel-Hamas war.
ACCRA, Ghana – German Capt. Mattias Reichenbach has loaded protective gear, soap and other cargo onto his plane and is ready to take off from the United Nations’ main staging area in Ghana during a crisis that has claimed thousands of lives in three African countries.
For a country with a small population, Canada was well-represented among the ranks of the deadliest air aces of the First World War. Two Canadians — Billy Bishop and Raymond Collishaw — are among the top 10 scorers overall. Three continue reading
Prince Harry boarded a 1960s Routemaster bus at Buckingham Palace in London Thursday along with war veterans and celebrity supporters to help kick off the Royal British Legion’s London Poppy Day appeal. The charity hopes to raise 1 million pounds continue reading
In a few short lines of poetry, Canadian physician Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae captured the futility of the Great War. We asked prominent Canadians to recite the poem as an act of remembrance. We encourage you to record your own continue reading
If history is dictated by the concerns of the historian’s day, then it’s surprising more of us haven’t heard the story of the Halbmondlager, or “Half Moon Camp”, a small First World War prisoner-of-war camp in Zossen, near Berlin. It continue reading
Volunteers, sponsors, beneficiaries and Windsor Star staff hit the streets on Raise-a-Reader Day to raise money for literacy initiatives in our community. And, what a day it was!
Literacy is a skill that opens many doors - doing well in school, getting a good job, developing self-esteem, learning about the world and just having the fun and enjoyment that comes from reading. The importance of literacy can't be overemphasized. Raise-a-Reader can help and so can you.