Ontario News

NIAGARA FALLS, Ont. — American tourists returned to the Niagara Region for the first time in more than a year on Monday, eager to see the thundering falls, take in the area's attractions and explore nearby wine country.

TORONTO — Two men are dead and another two others were injured in an early morning shooting in Toronto's Kensington Market area.

TORONTO — Ontario has risen above 400 new daily COVID-19 cases for the first time since mid-June. The Ministry of Health is reporting 423 new infections and six deaths from the virus.

TORONTO — William Davis, the 18th premier of Ontario and one of the country's longest-serving premiers, has died at 92. A statement from his family says Davis died in Brampton, Ont. this morning of natural causes.

TORONTO — For more than four decades, Christine Mak travelled every year to Disney parks and various conventions to commune with fellow fans of fantasy and science fiction.

Ontario reported 378 new COVID-19 cases and nine deaths from the virus on Saturday, the most since mid-June. The province says one of the deaths happened more than two months ago and was reported for the first time as part of data cleaning work.

CHATHAM, Ont. — Provincial police say one person is dead and another is missing following an apparent boating mishap in Lake Erie.

Rick Fall spent every day of the last three and a half months running roughly the equivalent of a full marathon as he trekked from British Columbia to Ontario.

TORONTO — Ontario marked three weeks on Friday since entering the third step of its pandemic reopening plan but it has yet to hit the vaccination targets set for restrictions to roll back further.

BURK'S FALLS, Ont. — Ontario's police watchdog says officers shot and killed a woman in Burk's Falls, Ont., on Thursday evening. The Special Investigations Unit says police were called about an unwanted person at a home at about 8:20 p.m.