Early risers snap up discount hotel rooms

    From the Niagara Falls Review: This year’s Sleep Cheap Charities Reap event is already shaping up to be the hottest one yet – and it has barely started. About half of the 6,000 or so rooms made available by the 25 participating Niagara Falls hotels were booked Friday, the first day reservations were taken, says…

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    Update on construction at Starbucks on Murray St

    I have previously posted about some renovations going on at the Starbucks on Murray St and the one inside the Skylon Tower. With regards to the one outside, I couldn’t tell if it was still going to be a Starbucks, or if it was changing. Well, it looks like they’ve just been updating it to…

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    Emergency crews use rope to guide stranded hikers to safety at Niagara Gorge

    From CTV News: Emergency crews used a rope line to guide hikers to safety after they got stranded in a gorge at Niagara Falls, Ont. Police say several hikers, including three adults, two children and a dog, got into some difficulty Saturday afternoon while walking up the Niagara Gorge off a marked trail below Thompson’s…

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    Twitter updates for 2010-04-08

    RT @niafallsreview: Dates have been set for the 3rd annual Springilicious festival in downtown Niagara Falls http://bit.ly/98iPMI # http://twitpic.com/1e3vfc – The ice cream place beside the Fun Factory on Clifton Hill is boarded up. Before it was boarded up, you could se # @ChrisEnnest I'm not up on UFC. That was the subject line of…

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    Niagara Falls was the ideal place for a proposal

    From The Times of West Virginia: Some proposals are cute. Some are spontaneous. Others are unexpected. And some are so downright romantic, others pale in comparison.

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    Niagara Falls rocks out on NYE

    From Niagara This Week: With mild weather and a great musical line-up, Niagara Falls was the place to be on New Year’s Eve. Canadian supergroups Barenaked Ladies and Great Big Sea were joined by hip hop artist Kardinal Offishall to ring in 2011 in style at the brink of the world famous Niagara Falls.

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    NPC seeks qualified bidders for marina project

    From the Niagara Falls Review: The Niagara Parks Commission has issued a request for qualifications to move forward its plans to redevelop Miller’s Creek Marina. Following input received from a public information session, and a formal request for information process, the commission is seeking third-party interest on one of three development options. One option is…

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