Festival Season in the Hamlet of Lowville - two weekends of some of the best music and acting you will see this year.

By Pepper Parr July 4th, 2106 BURLINGTON, ON Summer is festival time – those pleasant summer days when one gathers in chairs you brought with […]

Saving the Bay - does Burlington have a dragon boat in this race?

By Staff July 4th, 2016 BURLINGTON, ON It’s that time of year again! More than 45 dragon boat teams will paddle competitively to raise funds […]

Air Park ordered to file a site plan or remove the fill dumped on their property illegally - they also have to pay the city's legal costs.

By Staff July 4th, 2016 BURLINGTON, ON   The full decision was not on line when this report was published. The city however did get […]

Meed Ward wants her colleagues to endorse a resolution calling for changes to how the Ontario Municipal Board operates.

By Pepper Parr July 4th, 2016 BURLINGTON, ON It didn’t take her long to get her concerns with the way the Ontario Municipal Board changes […]

City looks for $350,000 annually in sponsorship money for Nelson pool - gave away the Haber Recreation Centre for $68,000 a year for 20 years.

By Staff July 4th, 2016 BURLINGTON, ON   If you want to put your name up in lights on a piece of city property – […]

Burlington Bandits still ahead of the Hamilton Cardinals in the IBL standings.

By Staff July 4th, 2016 BURLINGTON, ON The Toronto Maple Leafs got back to .500 after a 12-5 win over the Burlington Bandits Sunday afternoon. […]

Past, Present and Future of the automotive world to be on display downtown Saturday.

By Staff July 4th, 2016 BURLINGTON, ON The Second Annual Burlington Downtown Car Show with vehicles on display along Brant Street and Elgin Street takes […]

Lakeshore Road to undergo major reconstruction - it will become the entrance to the hospital when it opens in 2018

By Staff July 3rd, 2016 BURLINGTON, ON You won’t be using that part of Lakeshore Road that runs from the south end of Maple Avenue. […]

Bandits game against Guelph Royals postponed.

By Staff July 1, 2016 BURLINGTON,ON   Friday’s game between the Burlington Bandits and Guelph Royals in Guelph was cancelled due to field conditions. It […]

Domestic dispute results in attempted murder charges against a 22 year old male.

By Staff July 1st, 2016 BURLINGTON, ON   That domestic disturbance in Plains Road yesterday afternoon has become much more serious for the 22 year […]

How important decisions get made - look at what the Brits just did and what Canada did when it chose the flag we now have.

By Ray Rivers July 1, 2016 BURLINGTON, ON Brexit was a simple referendum question – leave or remain. But dumbing down the referendum question doesn’t […]

Burlington MP shows a strong arm when she throws out the game ball for the Bandits.

By Pepper Parr June 30th, 2016 BURLINGTON, ON   They needed all the help they could get – and while Burlington MP Karina Gould put […]

City gets the decision it wanted in its second court battle with the Air Park - details on th decision next week.

By Pepper Parr June 30th, 2016 BURLINGTON, ON   It certainly took long enough but Justice Gilmour delivered his much awaited decision on the court […]

Police officer stabbed in the head during domestic dispute at Plains Road residence.

By Staff June 30th, 2016 BURLINGTON, ON Late Thursday afternoon – at 4:23 p.m. – Halton Regional Police officers were called to a family disturbance […]

Will Burlington's seniors decide they don't want the kind of change city council is talking about and do something about it with their ballots?

By Pepper Parr June 30th, 2016 BURLINGTON, ON Now that people have gotten over the shock – the British deciding they no longer want to […]

Will there be a public discussion on what the United Ways should do about the organizational mess they have gotten themselves into?

By Pepper Parr June 30th, 2106 BURLINGTON, ON Something just isn’t quite right over at the United Way. The four United Way organizations in the […]

City council will ask staff to develop a governance model to implement climate change initiatives with Hamilton; aren't they the people who fouled the bay?

By Pepper Parr June 30th, 2016 BURLINGTON, ON Saying we share the air and we have to work together to keep it clean is one […]

Construction going on all over the city.

By Staff June 29, 2016 BURLINGTON, ON   New roads, improvements to parks, murals for public places – all kinds of upgrades and improvements to […]

Second round of public murals announced - three locations this time.

By Pepper Parr June 29th, 2016 BURLINGTON, ON City hall has come up with more cash for artists that want to take part in the […]

Police arrest male found sleeping in a stolen pick up truck: said he wanted to be shot. Pellet pistol and replica handgun recovered.

By Staff June 29th, 2016 BURLINGTON, ON The name of the person arrested was incorrect in an earlier version of this story. The HRPS apologize […]