From the Long Island International Travel Examiner: Make a run for the border (the other one) to get away this holiday weekend. The Ontario side of Niagara Falls has many popular restaurants, bars, attractions and, of course, those Falls. (Do you know there are several different ones?) When I drove there in July, it took…
RT @Hilton_Niagara: The Niagara Falls Elvis Festival begins today! Check out http://bit.ly/bQG6nJ for events, locations, etc… # This is the promo leaflet for the upcoming Niagara Falls Elvis Festival http://twitpic.com/2g6j5n #
From the Niagara Falls Review: Paramedics took away a patient from a Centre Street hotel last night after responding to an unconfirmed report of a drowning. Firefighters, police and paramedics responded to the Days Inn and Suites, at 5068 Centre St. at about 9:15 p.m. An ambulance could be seen parked at the front door,…
From CNN (reproduced below): Witness: Niagara Falls plunge ‘amazing’ Tuesday, October 21, 2003 Posted: 1:49 PM EDT (1749 GMT) Terry McMullen An unidentified man is taken into custody after his plunge over Niagara Falls. NIAGARA FALLS, Ontario (CNN) — Tourists visiting Niagara Falls this week were shocked when a man plunged over the waterfall and…
From the Buffalo News: When a San Francisco company begins operating boat tours in Niagara Falls, Ont., in 2014, it won’t be with the iconic Maid of the Mist name. And if Hornblower Cruises & Events gets its way, it will be the only tour boat operator in the Niagara Gorge. “We’re not anxious to…
As the Niagara Falls Review reported a few days ago, Jay Cochrane has postponed the big skywalk from the Fallsview Casino to the Skylon Tower a couple of times. As best we can see, he’s been adjusting the support wires quite a bit. At one point a week or so ago, there were wires hanging…
From Yahoo! Finance (includes a nice picture): The ‘polar vortex’ hitting the U.S. with insanely-low temperatures has also offered the opportunity for some incredible photos — and now we’ve got some from Niagara Falls.
From the Niagara Falls Review: It used to be a video store, but “Blockbuster” is now the mantra of the tourism industry in Niagara and the province of Ontario. Get used to it. Blockbuster. Blockbuster. Blockbuster. At some point, the word became the catch phrase for the kind of events Ontario’s tourism industry wants to…
From Time Warner Cable News (includes video): Officials said Monday that the Wonder Falls project, the planned transformation the former Rainbow Centre Mall in Niagara Falls into a resort and tourist desination, could be the start of a new era for the city. Wonder Falls will include a 15-story hotel, an indoor waterpark, retail, restaurants,…
From the Niagara Falls Review: Running the Niagara Parks Commission should be like driving a bus, says Fay Booker, the provincial agency’s new chairwoman, whose reputation for helping corporations understand how they govern themselves appears to be one of the reasons she landed the job. General manager John Kernahan should be the driver and the…