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Additional measures to protect Niagara residents from COVID-19

Ontario, including Niagara, is at a precarious point in the pandemic. Average cases in Niagara, while declining, remain almost as high as at the worst of the first wave. Variants of COVID-19 are also increasingly spreading in the GTA. Many experts are warning that a third wave might arrive very soon. To save lives and give Niagara’s economy a sustained opportunity to recover, it is imperative that the reopening be carefully managed.

Through the fall, despite the measures in the province’s Framework...

Niagara Health resumes vaccinating healthcare workers against COVID-19 at St. Catharines arena

Today, Niagara Health reopens its COVID-19 Vaccination Clinic for high-risk healthcare workers at the Seymour Hannah Sports and Entertainment Centre in St. Catharines. The larger clinic space will allow the hospital to get more needles into arms, as vaccine supply becomes available.

The Niagara Health clinic will continue its work administering first and second doses of the Pfizer vaccine to long-term care and high-risk retirement home staff and essential caregivers, as well as hospital staff and...

Affordable housing a top priority as one in four residents at risk of homelessness

Affordable housing is a top priority for the City of Port Colborne as one in four residents are at risk of homelessness.

At a virtual Public Meeting held last night with Port Colborne City Council to review a rezoning application to support an affordable housing development at Chestnut Park, representatives from Port Cares and the community were in attendance to share information and express their viewpoints.

“For years there has been a shortage of affordable housing in Port Colborne and it’s only...

Port Colborne outlines grey-lockdown restrictions on City facilities

Effective today, Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2021, the City of Port Colborne, along with the rest of Niagara, will move to the Grey-Lockdown level of the Keeping Ontario Safe and Open Framework.

On Friday, Feb.12, 2021, the Ontario Government announced 27 public health regions would transition out of the stay-at-home order and into a revised and strengthened COVID-19 response framework. Niagara Region will be in Grey-Lockdown for approximately two weeks, while the province and the Region closely monitor...

Winter storm warning in effect for South Niagara

Environment Canada has issued a winter storm warning for South Niagara. A snowfall of 20 to 30 cm is expected Monday into Tuesday. Two rounds of precipitation are expected with this storm. The first one is expected to begin early Monday morning with 5 to 10 cm likely by afternoon.

The precipitation may diminish in intensity during the afternoon, but another round of even heavier snow is expected to move in Monday evening and persist until Tuesday morning. An additional 10 to 20 cm is likely. Northeast...