From Niagara This Week: While many people visiting the Niagara Parkway over Christmas will enjoy the coloured lights that mark holiday cheer, two local attractions will use their lights to bring awareness to a more serious issue: domestic violence. The Peace Bridge will glow purple Monday from dusk until 1 a.m. to mark the launch…
From Niagara This Week: The Ontario Power Generation Winter Festival of Lights marked the start of its 37th season with a day of interactive festivities at Queen Victoria Park Saturday. There was live entertainment, food trucks and a variety of interactive displays including illuminated teeter totters.
From WYRK.com: How awesome is this going to be? At the Aquarium of Niagara they have been putting in new exhibits to attract new visitors out in Niagara Falls and now, one of the coolest is underway. It will cost about $1.85 million Shark and Ray Bay shallow tropical pool that will be right as…
From the Buffalo News: The effort to revive Niagara Falls’ Main Street received a $10 million boost from the state Wednesday. In an appearance in the Conference Center Niagara Falls, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo announced the Falls is this year’s recipient of funds from the Downtown Revitalization Initiative in Western New York. “The state has…
From Niagara This Week: Clifton Hill has long been described as ‘carnival-like.’ Cotton candy. Ferris wheel. Go-karts. Pretty soon, you can add roller coaster. Owner Ian Paul calls it the world’s first rooftop coaster, located above the House of Frankenstein haunted house. With installation nearly complete, it now needs approval from the province’s Technical Standards…
From Niagara This Week: It has been a “tremendous” summer so far as the peak tourism season hits its stride in the Honeymoon Capital, says the president of Niagara Falls Tourism. “I’d say right now businesses are tracking even with where they were last year and knowing that last year was really a record year…
From the Niagara Gazette: New York state has launched a new campaign aimed at boosting tourism in the Lake Ontario region in response to recent flooding that has impacted communities along the shoreline. Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced the new initiative on Wednesday, saying it includes free fishing on Lake Ontario, St. Lawrence River and Lower…
From the Buffalo News: A little more than three years ago, Rock Burger was born in an unusual spot – the rear of Players Lounge, a no-frills bar at 328 Niagara St. in Niagara Falls. Owner Jason Lizardo’s juicy, decadent stuffed burgers made waves on social media and spurred success out of the small, unorthodox…
From Niagara This Week: Britain’s Red Arrows are gearing up for a Niagara Falls flyby in August. The iconic display team of the Royal Air Force is to soar over the city Aug. 28 as part of a six-city tour of Canada starting Aug. 8 in Halifax. Details for the flyover have yet to be…
From WKBW Channel 7 in Buffalo: A proposed $15 million “beach and surf club” in downtown Niagara Falls has been tangled up in controversy over whether the developer “copied and pasted” artist renderings from a defunct project in Japan. Developer Michael DiCienzo is seeking $4 million in public subsidies for his year-round surf club concept,…