Two Windsor Star staffers came away with top prizes Friday as the winners of the 2020 Ontario Newspaper Awards were announced. Veteran reporter Doug Schmidt took top prize in a special category for COVID-19 feature writing for a collection of stories...

Ontario’s wedding industry suffered a financial loss of over $780 million in 2020 due to COVID-19 restrictions leading to an abundance of cancellations and postponements, according to a new report. That estimate by insurance provider Hellosafe.ca r...

Nearly one in three Windsor-Essex residents who have tested positive for COVID-19 since March don’t know where they caught it. Data presented by the region’s medical officer of health on Friday shows 31.7 per cent of local people who̵...

The Windsor-built Pacifica has won Good Housekeeping’s Best Hybrid Minivan for the fourth straight year. The Good Housekeeping Institute conducted hundreds of hours and thousands of miles of vehicle testing to identify the top hybrid makes and mode...

The Ford government announced a wide range of tougher new measures Friday to complement the ongoing stay-at-home lockdown due to COVID-19 that will further restrict peoples’ movements and likely push vulnerable businesses closer to the brink. But W...

Just a few years ago, both Randy Diestelmann and the “extremely derelict” Ford City building he’d recently bought were — according to the experts — basically teardowns. Diestelmann, a contractor for over 25 years and former chai...

Doug Schmidt and Taylor Campbell 1The vaccination of local farm workers could begin in days, the Windsor-Essex County Health Unit announced Friday. Along with long-term care facilities for seniors, no other sector has been harder-hit during the pande...

If Canadian consumers want to enjoy year-round Canadian-grown produce then they’re going to have to put up with some occasional light in the night skies above agricultural greenhouses growing that food. That’s the argument likely to be pu...

Last year at this time, members of the Windsor Mosque were unable to come together for prayers or as a community to celebrate Ramadan due to the COVID-19 restrictions. As the holy month of Ramadan begins this year, there is at least some opportunity ...

Rising demand for COVID-19 tests in Windsor-Essex has prompted Windsor Regional Hospital to keep its second assessment centre open three days next week. The Met campus COVID-19 assessment centre will be open Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 8 a.m. ...