Brockville News

Striking DriveTest workers picketed a local truck driving school Friday as management crossed picket lines and began administering driving tests to anxious students.

Brockville's Via Rail station will get a $7 million replacement next year, a project Leeds-Grenville MP Gord Brown hailed as an example of the economic stimulus at work and a move to a greener future.

The annual Kinsmen Club Snow Suit Drive is off to a slow start. The warm, sunny weather that the area has had the past week has not helped with this project, according to organizers.

As she joined her young daughter in placing a wreath at Brockville's cenotaph, Joanne Huton-Richards was thinking of her late father.

Brockville Police have charged two people from outside the city with stunt driving in connection with separate incidents over the weekend on Blockhouse Island.

Close to 2,000 elementary students will have more access to healthy lifestyle and physical fitness programming during their school day.

H1N1 is on the wane in this part of eastern Ontario, the tri-county medical officer of health said today.

When it came time to plan the next chapter in his professional life, Robert McDougall chose a familiar route.

Brockville police are advising north-end residents to beware of a black bear sighted crossing Centennial Road on Monday night.

Chantal Thomas's suicide in 2005 prompted her brother James Thomas to pore through her diaries trying to understand it.

Wait times at Brockville General Hospital mostly remained within the provincial targets in the latest period measured, but a conservative think-tank's report released Thursday argues those targets are not ambitious enough.

The alarming security measures were a common discovery during the OPP's annual marijuana eradication program that wrapped up earlier this month.

The next shipment of the H1N1 vaccine is expected to arrive here this week. But even with that, the local health unit is still only so far vaccinating people on the high priority list.

Taylor Mitchell, a 19-year-old folksinger from Toronto, died after she was attacked by two coyotes in Cape Breton.

Ray Marshall, president and CEO of Brockville General Hospital, gets his H1N1 vaccine from occupational health nurse Shelley Weapenicappo at the hospital's Charles Street site Tuesday.

Weary travellers in desperate need of washroom facilities have been flooding into a small town off Highway 401 ever since Ontario closed many of its highway service centres for renovations, residents of Mallorytown complain.

One man was in custody after a Brockville woman was nearly run over in her parking lot Friday, city police said.

City police arrested three men on Highway 401 yesterday afternoon in connection with a robbery at the Brockville Shopping Centre's Pharma Plus outlet.

Napanee's Chris Raabe hadn't turned a wheel at the Brockville Ontario Speedway this year until Saturday's opening day of the DIRTcar Northeast Fall Nationals.

" The economic blow was bad enough, but now it appears the recent closure of the Highway 401 service centres here has brought insult as well as injury.