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Fri, 01 Jan 2021 02:54:34 +0000
Fire crews battle city house blaze
Windsor Fire and Rescue Services crews responded Thursday night to a house fire in the 1100 block of Marion Avenue. Area residents were cautioned to stay away from the area as firefighters fought to extinguish the blaze. In a photo tweeted from the s...

Thu, 31 Dec 2020 22:06:10 +0000
Free city child care available next week for front-line workers
Free emergency child care will be available next week for local health-care employees and other front-line workers. The City of Windsor said the province has provided funding for targeted emergency child care for school-aged children. The free child ...

Thu, 31 Dec 2020 19:16:18 +0000
Ontario finance minister resigns amid outrage over Caribbean holiday
TORONTO — Ontario’s Finance Minister Rod Phillips resigned on Thursday after public outrage over a Caribbean vacation he took earlier this month in violation of his own government’s coronavirus travel warnings. Phillips, a member of the ruling ...

Thu, 31 Dec 2020 16:29:17 +0000
Region marks 272 new COVID-19 cases, eight more deaths
The Windsor-Essex County Health Unit reported a whopping 272 additional confirmed COVID-19 cases and eight more deaths Thursday. It is the highest single-day case increase the region has ever recorded. Statistics show 10.2 per cent of tests being per...

Thu, 31 Dec 2020 16:24:56 +0000
Ontario hits record 3,328 new COVID-19 cases, 56 deaths
Ontario is reporting 3,328 new COVID-19 cases today – a new daily record – and 56 deaths linked to the virus. Health Minister Christine Elliott says there are 888 new cases in Toronto, 431, in Peel Region, and 418 in York Region. She also says th...

Thu, 31 Dec 2020 16:07:03 +0000
Essex County OPP restricts access to its detachments during COVID-19
The Ontario Provincial Police is restricting accesses to its facilities across the province in hopes of reducing the spread of COVID-19. The OPP said Thursday it is limiting routine criminal record checks, vulnerable sector checks and finger printing...

Thu, 31 Dec 2020 15:13:55 +0000
Driver charged after passenger train strikes car
Essex County OPP said a person escaped unscathed Wednesday night after driving into the path of an oncoming train and getting struck. It happened at 6:08 p.m. on Golfview Drive near Valentino Avenue in Lakeshore. Police said there were no injuries to...

Thu, 31 Dec 2020 12:50:59 +0000
Windsor police charge fitness facility, religious gathering, with violating pandemic rules
Windsor police have recently charged two groups with breaking pandemic rules. During the week of Dec. 20 to 26, officers responded to a religious gathering and found it to be over capacity, violating the Reopening Ontario Act, police said in a news r...

Thu, 31 Dec 2020 01:24:35 +0000
What a year: top Windsor-Essex news stories of 2020
In 2020, everything changed. A global pandemic didn’t just alter — possibly forever — the way we live. It sowed fear. It robbed us of personal freedoms. It took loved ones. It divided us. But it wasn’t all doom and gloom. Kindness showed thr...

Thu, 31 Dec 2020 01:19:54 +0000
City workers deployed to help others
As the pandemic’s second wave sweeps across Windsor, the city announced Wednesday it has redeployed municipal staff to assist struggling service providers. Among those deployments, City of Windsor staff are providing logistical support to the S...



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