SIMCOE — Police say no charges will be laid following an investigation into a sexting incident involving teenaged high school girls in Norfolk. “As of right now, I don’t expect anyone to be charged,” Acting Det.-Sgt.[...]

Fast food restaurants are changing to encourage healthier eating, says a Brantford man who has been in the business for more than 30 years. "Certainly, the business has evolved," says Dean Braund, the CEO of Williams Fresh Cafe.[...]

Top Canadian Paralympians Jason and Jon Dunkerley, both born blind, are vowing to vigorously defend themselves from a personal-injury lawsuit filed against them by a jogger following a collision along Ottawa's Rideau Canal in 2010.[...]

Chad Spurr continues to have a hot hand for the Brantford Blast. And, on Sunday, Mike Ruberto joined him as the Blast scored a 4-2 road win against the Norwood Vipers in Allan Cup Hockey action.[...]

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Environment Canada has continued a snow squall warning for Woodstock, Tillsonburg and Oxford County this afternoon. At 12:50 PM radar shows snow squalls moving southeastward off Lake Huron into the London area.[...]

BEVERLY HILLS, CALIF. - Whitney Houston, one of the most successful, beloved and troubled female singers in music history, died Saturday at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif. She was 48.[...]

Monday's horrific two-vehicle crash in Perth County that claimed 11 lives was all the more shocking because such death tolls are now mercifully rare, except for bus crashes or multi-car pileups on major highways.[...]

TORONTO - The Ontario Liberals and Tories were silent on all-day kindergarten Friday, but groups speaking out in favour of the program made plenty of noise.[...]

The First Nations community of New Credit is "slowly getting back to normal" now that two bodies pulled from a house fire have been identified and an arrest made in the deaths, says the council chief. In the days following the Jan.[...]

OHSWEKEN-A series of brazen robberies at Six Nations smoke shops have police there asking the public to notify them if they see suspicious vehicles in the area.[...]

The Brant County boys' high school hockey season wrapped up Friday with a pair of games. The Assumption College Lions improved to 6-2-2 and finished in second place thanks to a 7-2 victory over the Pauline Johnson Collegiate Thunderbirds.[...]

They had suited up together briefly for a summer hockey program a couple seasons ago, but Simcoe's Tyler Norrie and Clear Creek's Mike Rebry probably figured their chances of ever crossing paths again were slim and none.[...]

The BCSSAA boys' basketball finals are set to start Tuesday. The St. John's College Green Eagles will face the North Park Collegiate Trojans in both junior and senior finals. All games will be at Brantford Collegiate Institute.[...]

A quadplex development on Henry Street being proposed by a former city councillor got the thumbs-up at this week's community development meeting, despite opposition from the ward councillors.[...]

Brantford and the OLG have reached an agreement to maintain the city's casino payments for another year before changes based on a new accounting system will come into play.[...]

Third-period goals by Travis Lisabeth and Tyler Pelton snapped a 4-4 tie and lifted the Brantford Blast to a 6-4 win over the Orillia Tundras in Allan Cup senior hockey, Friday night at the West Orillia Sports Complex.[...]

Thirty-three city facilities are now equipped with live-saving defibrillators thanks to the efforts of fundraiser extraordinaire C.J. Dick.[...]

Three students at Waterford District High School have shown dedication and excellence in their chosen sports, at a level which extends beyond their in-school activities. Hayden Halstead moved to Waterford from Cambridge when he was in Grade 3.[...]

The city benefits from its postsecondar y institutions both financially and socially, according to a study presented to councillors this week.[...]