From the Niagara Falls Review: The Ontario Power Generation Winter Festival of Lights has received a top award by the International Festivals & Events Association. The local event was awarded the IFEA pinnacle award for best festival mobile application during the association’s annual convention in Arizona.
From the Niagara Falls Review: An integrity commissioner has found no evidence that city Coun. Wayne Thomson shared confidential information from an in-camera meeting earlier this year. In a report going before council Tuesday, Integrity Commissioner Brian Duxbury says a complaint submitted to the city clerk alleged Thomson disclosed information from the meeting to third…
From the Niagara Falls Review: The Tourism Industry Association of Canada has shortlisted Niagara Falls Tourism as a finalist in the 2017 Canadian Tourism Awards. This acknowledgement comes after the success of its summer 2016 #ExploreNiagara social media campaign. The awards are presented annually by the association and the Toronto Star to recognize success, leadership…
From the Niagara Falls Review: Niagara tourism partners will host hundreds of international athletes and their families next week as part of the upcoming Invictus Games in Toronto. Up to 500 athletes, family members and coaching staff will take a specially chartered Via Rail train to Niagara Falls on Wednesday for a day-long outing to…
From the Niagara Gazette: Why does the Canadian-side of Niagara Falls develop so much better than the American-side?… Suddenly, even though neither one of us had made a single step, we both had found ourselves instead of a simple mile away from the Canadian border, we were now may have well been out on the…
From the Buffalo News: Lockport’s good news is a reminder of what Niagara Falls should be doing and isn’t. At least, not enough of it. It’s crazy that both Lockport and Niagara Falls, Ont., are able to move ahead on tourism development, but that on this bank of the international river, things can’t seem to…
From the Buffalo News: The City of Niagara Falls will run out of its fund balance by the end of the year because of a dispute over Seneca casino revenue, according to an audit issued Tuesday by the state Comptroller’s Office. The city, caught in the middle of a dispute over the sharing of casino…
From the Niagara Gazette: Underused or vacant properties are not exactly new in downtown Niagara Falls. In fact, some of the parcels now being eyed by the state as part of an acquisition plan referenced by Gov. Andrew Cuomo in January have been out of public circulation for quite some time now. Under Cuomo’s Strategic…
From Buffalo Rising: BF Patel and family have opened Niagara Falls’ newest and most unique hotel in recent years. Originally built as a Chocolate Factory for the Niagara Chocolate Company in 1912, the building later became home to the northeast headquarters for Moore Business Forms employing thousands of Niagara Falls residents for decades. After Moore…
From a Niagara Parks Commission press release seen on Niagara at Large: The Niagara Parks Commission is pleased to announce a new four-part literary speaker series, Coast to Coast: Canada’s Literary Women, in celebration of Canada’s 150th anniversary and the multitude of unique and extraordinarily talented, female literary voices found within this country. The new…