Students ROCK! in the Falls
The Niagara Falls Scotia Bank Convention Centre will be rocking this week.Tomorrow is the day Niagara Regional Police host the second annual Students ROCK! guitar competition.The program was started by...
View ArticleFinal vote expected on open air fire ban in Niagara Falls
Extra security will be on hand tonight at Niagara Falls city council, as councillors debate a burning question that has divided city residents.Up for approval, an amendment to the open air burning...
View ArticleVerdict in Burlington Skyway crash trial
The driver who caused over a million dollars in damages and a massive traffic headache when his truck crashed into the Burlington Skyway has been found guilty of dangerous driving.Sukhvinder Rai drove...
View ArticleWoman arrested in connection with Niagara Falls stabbing
Police have arrested a 47 year old woman following a stabbing at a Niagara Falls motel last Friday (Mar 18)Officers were called to the Falls Manor motel on Lundy's Lane about a break and enter after...
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No charges for dad who left baby in car
Police say they will not lay charges against a Toronto father who left his three-month-old baby in a car with the engine running only to have the vehicle stolen, triggering an amber alert.   Const....
View ArticleProposal to reconfigure Robert Moses Parkway
It may be a scenic drive for visitors, but Niagara Falls, NY residents have long wondered why a parkway was built along the Niagara Gorge cutting access to the beautiful landscape.But that may change...
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Prime Minister Trudeau responds to Brussels attack
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he is outraged and deeply saddened by the loss of so many innocent victims in terrorist attacks today in Brussels.Trudeau has issued a statement saying Canada stands...
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BREAKING - Islamic State group claims Brussels attack
The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the attacks in Brussels, saying its extremists opened fire in the airport and ``several of them'' detonated suicide belts.   The posting in the...
View ArticleSt.Catharines offering free swimming lessons to families in need
Families in need in St.Catharines will be able to take part in a city program at a reduced rate.The new St. Catharines Fee Assistance Program, part of Healthy Kids Community Challenge Niagara, will...
View ArticleQuebec actress has close call during Brussels airport explosions
Quebec actress Salome Corbo was just checking in at the Air Canada counter on Tuesday when the first blast rocked the Brussels airport.In the ensuing chaos as she fled the scene, Corbo says she came...
View Article4 arrested in 2nd raid at medical marijuana grow op in NOTL
Niagara police have executed a second search warrant at a medical marijuana grow operation in Niagara-on-the-Lake.Officers raiding the facility at 1651 Lakeshore Road yesterday for the second time...
View ArticleFederal Conservatives call Liberal budget a 'nightmare scenario'
Niagara Falls Conservative MP Rob Nicholson tells CKTB's Larry Fedoruk the 2016 Budget will put Canadians deeply in debt.Nicholson says that driving the country into debt is not the way to respond to a...
View ArticleSt. Catharines MP calls budget 'exciting'
St. Catharines MP Chris Bittle is weighing in on the 2016 federal budget.The newly elected Liberal Member of Parliament joined CKTB's Larry Fedoruk following the release of the fiscal plan calling it...
View ArticleFEDERAL BUDGET 2016: Canada's fiscal plan
The first budget from the Trudeau government touches on key measures the Liberals campaigned on during the federal election, with much of the spending spread out over longer periods than promised, and...
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BREAKING - Former Toronto mayor Rob Ford has died
Former Toronto mayor Rob Ford has died of the cancer that was first diagnosed 18 months ago. A statement from his family announcing the death reads -- ``A dedicated man of the people, Councillor Ford...
View ArticleUPDATE: Niagara under Special weather statement
Rain, possible freezing rain and snow.Niagara, Hamilton and the GTA remains under a Special Weather Statement with two weather systems on the way.Environment Canada's Geoff Coulson tells CKTB's Larry...
View ArticleNiagara Falls residents can still burn wood for outdoor cooking
Niagara Falls City Council did not ratify a controversial new bylaw at tonight's meeting that would have prohibited recreational wood burning fires and eliminated a loophole that allowed residential...
View ArticleBosma trial hears from realtor who had intimate relationship with one of the...
Testimony from a former girlfriend of Dellen Millard, one of the two men accused of killing Tim Bosma, the focus of the murder trial yesterday.On the stand, Toronto real estate agent Lisa Whidden, who...
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Social media campaign convinces French's to move ketchup production to Ontario
A social media campaign to get Ontarians to swap ketchup brands has ended up having an unintended outcome.French's Ketchup which made headlines because it uses tomatoes grown in Leamington is now...
View ArticleProvince breaks net zero promise on teacher contracts
Contract agreements with teachers and education workers that the Ontario Liberal government were boasted were ``net zero'' actually come with an additional 300-million dollars cost to set up benefit...
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