Fifteen years ago this week, a car was found submerged in the Rideau Canal, near Kingston Mills Locks. Inside the car were four women, who we learned were murdered, but it was made to look like an accident.  Read More

Editor’s note: This article was originally published on January 30, 2012 in the Kingston Whig-Standard. Read More

Editor’s note: This article was originally published on Sept. 19, 2009, in The Kingston Whig-Standard Read More

Editor’s note: This article was originally published July 2, 2009, in The Kingston Whig Standard. Read More

The murder of Zainab Shafia, Sahar Shafia, Geeti Shafia and Rona Amir Mohammad 15 years ago was nothing Kingston had ever seen before. Read More

In the early morning hours of June 30, 2009, Zainab, Sahar and Geeti Shafia, along with their father’s first wife, Rona Amir Mohammad, were murdered at the hands of their own family. Read More

The Shafia family members convicted of murdering four of their own will never be free of their crime, but at least one of them was granted a brief parole to visit her mother’s grave. Read More

From Marlene MacDonald’s kitchen window, you can see the entrance to Kingston Mills Locks. To the right is County Road 21. To the left is a beautiful view of Colonel By Lake. Read More

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The June 18 passing of the incomparable Willie Mays — growing up, he was my favourite National League baseball player and Mickey Mantle was “my guy” in the so-called junior circuit — set me thinking about Mays being the “oldest living member” (OLM) in baseball’s Hall of Fame. I thought about the OLM distinction itself and how it offers a small measure of peculiar pride and pleasure. The “Say Hey Kid” was the hall’s OLM until he took a game-ending called third strike at age 93. His death instantly elevated former shortstop Luis Aparicio, the Venezuelan vacuum cleaner, to OLM status. Read More

A fire late Thursday afternoon has destroyed Quinn’s Meats, an abattoir and butcher shop in Yarker. Read More

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Celebrations begin in Kingston with the Canada Day Parade of People, which will leave from Metro grocery store parking lot (Princess and Barrie streets) at 11 a.m. and make its way down Princess Street to Confederation Park for the Canada Day Cakes at noon. Read More

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At long last, the community of nations is taking concrete steps to address global vaccine inequity and support the desperately needed expansion of vaccine manufacturing capacity in Africa. Read More

In the early 1990s, the lunch bell at Napanee District Secondary School meant only one thing in my world: hit the pavement. Read More

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Kingston Police are looking for information about a person who committed a break-and-enter at a construction site in midtown Kingston at the end of May. Read More

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A Kingston-area pharmacist is pointing out the unnecessarily complicated process that faces older adults who want to update various vaccinations. Read More

Canadian pop superstar Avril Lavigne is among the latest appointed to the Order of Canada. Read More

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KINGSTON — Proponents of a plan to relocate the sleeping cabins to a permanent location near the Kingston Centre provided more information and tried to allay some of the concerns. Read More

Monday, starting at the Metro (Princess and Barrie streets), at 11 a.m.: A celebration in red and white going down Princess Street to Confederation Park, ending with Canada Day cakes at noon. For full details visit cityofkingston.ca/arts-culture-and-events/city-calendar-and-events/feature-events/canada-day/. Read More

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The shovels scooped out the dirt easily on the dark summer evening, since the earth had resettled only a couple of days earlier. The desired item was larger, located only a few feet down, and the young men quietly placed their prize in a large container. Replacing the soil, they hastily removed any evidence of their presence. The medical students returned to the laboratory. Tomorrow, dissection class would be a success. Read More

Kingston Police Service Board ratified at its June 20 meeting a motion to enter into a memorandum of understanding between the board and the Downtown Kingston Business Improvement Area concerning a one-year pilot project for the Downtown Kingston Foot Patrol.
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