Those pesky elections — what do we need them for? That seems to be the takeaway from comments made by Premier Doug Ford at the Association of Municipalities of Ontario conference, which is occurring in Toronto this week.

Ontario's premier might have misjudged the wishes of Niagara voters when it comes to electing the regional chair, according to local delegates attending this week's Association of Municipalities of Ontario conference in Ottawa.

Wayne Gates charged the Ford government's plan to cancel Niagara's regional chair race is "disrespectful" to its residents, as opposition MPPs continued to slam the proposed election changes Thursday.

On the same day as a heated debate in the legislature about Doug Ford's 11th-hour changes to Ontario's municipal election, St. Catharines regional Coun. Bruce Timms is calling for a referendum on having an elected chair.

Niagara Region's audit committee is recommending the use of a debt management framework when its lower-tier municipalities finance large-scale projects.

Niagara's waterfront investment program has become so watered down in the past few years it can no longer accomplish what it was originally intended to do.

Volunteer group seeking to have corridor considered for designation as a wetland of international importance rebuffed by agency

Almost all of the roughly 80 hectares of available industrial property managed by the port authority — much of it left behind by the declining steel industry in the city — is now occupied, said the port authority's president and chief executive…

Although Niagara Peninsula Conservation Authority continues to stand by its decision to sue a member of the public, the organization's former chairman says he has learned his lesson.

ST. CATHARINES — Ed Smith said he's "absolutely happy" with a judge's decision awarding him 100 per cent of his legal costs accrued in defending himself in a defamation lawsuit.