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October 2026 (140) | September 2026 (31)
October 2026
- Fewer library visits, more people online: Windsor Public Library by the numbers
- Two 12-year-old girls hurt in Windsor e-scooter crash
- Windsor logged 1,471 pothole reports to 311 this year. March alone had 445
- Playoff soccer week: Lancer and Saints teams open the postseason Wednesday
- What if hackers shut down the Windsor-Detroit Tunnel? A cyber drill runs today
- Why you can't see news on Facebook or Instagram in Canada
- Witching Hour - Strange History: The steel town that never came
- One week to Voting Day: your plan for Oct. 26 in Windsor
- Tuesday lane restrictions on McDougall and Eugenie, Dougall Parkway ramps still closed
- Windsor Regional Hospital now offers ThuLEP prostate surgery
- 127 kg of cocaine seized at the Ambassador Bridge
- Crime is down in Windsor and Amherstburg this year. Fraud is up 5.9%
- Unifor members at Stellantis vote 97.3% for strike mandate
- Lancer women blank Waterloo 4-0; Saints women edge Fanshawe 1-0
- Pastabilities lunch today raises money to fight hunger in Windsor-Essex
- Witching Hour - Dark History: The evening a tornado crossed the river
- Last day to vote early in Windsor is Monday, Oct. 19
- Dougall Parkway ramps at Sixth Concession close Monday to Thursday
- Windsor Police said 14 vehicles were stolen in a week. 5 were unlocked with keys inside
- Donoso stops all 39 shots as Lancers blank Western 3-0
- 20 survivors meet the crews who saved them at EMS Survivor Day
- 526 overdose ER visits in nine months: what Windsor-Essex's 2026 numbers show
- Fatal apartment fire on Lauzon Rd. displaces 15 people
- Witching Hour - Legends: The legend of the red dwarf across the river
- Windsor splash pads closed for the season; these park washrooms stay open all year
- Frost advisory tonight in Windsor, then a sunny run to 18
- Francis pledges to fund the Sandpoint Beach plan; Dilkens pledged to finish it
- University Ave. W. reopens between McEwan and Salter
- Spitfires rout Owen Sound 11-3 as both Lancers hockey teams win on the road
- Marathon closes tunnel, downtown Windsor roads Sunday
- Witching Hour - Legends: The widow's curse on Peche Island
- Man, 42, charged after west-end stabbing
- Voting ID myths, checked against the City
- Spitfires host Owen Sound tonight at 7:05 (Fight Night)
- Seen an ENWIN van with cameras? Here is why
- Unifor Local 444 strike authorization vote is tomorrow
- Lancers fall 96-94 to UBC at the Naismith Classic as Amherstburg blanks Walpole Island 7-0
- Downtown Mission eyes move to H4
- Showers and wind today in Windsor, frost risk tonight
- No place to ride: Windsor-Essex's lost race tracks
- Witching Hour - Strange History: The Amherstburg warship sent toward Niagara Falls
- Rough night, nicer weekend: rain and gusts tonight, sunshine Saturday and Sunday
- Skipping class now costs marks in Ontario high schools: what students and parents need to know
- Windsor Police name the 5 intersections with the most collisions this year
- Hiram Walker built a town, and homes, for his workers
- Man, 40, charged after alleged sexual assault of teen
- Missed the Ojibway exit? OPP says do not turn around on the 401
- Spitfires host 6-0-1 Sudbury tonight after Wheatley beats Mooretown 5-2
- Windsor police: September crimes against people down 8.6%
- Windsor police arrest man, 63, after Esplanade park sexual assault
- What Fred Francis's housing plan promises
- Witching Hour - Legends: The lighthouse keeper's dog named Sailor
- Windsor area jobless rate falls to 7.3% in September
- Manufacturing careers night for students and parents at Catholic Central
- Windsor police seek suspect in suspicious $1M Ottawa Street fire
- Transit Windsor becomes a City department on Oct. 18: what changes
- Report: Stellantis plans a 2028 Charger Hellcat; plant not named
- Windsor goes from record 30 degrees to a sunny 12 by Saturday
- Heavy police presence near County Road 42 and Lakeshore Road 113
- Essex 73's edge Blenheim 2-1 as Vipers and Sharks host junior games tonight
- Advance vote today in Windsor: Capri Pizzeria Recreation Complex
- Asked and unanswered: 7 of 14 sets of Windsor News questions got no reply
- Windsor hits 30.1°C on Oct. 13, a record and the latest 30°C day on record
- Witching Hour - Dark History: The night raiders took Windsor
- Windsor Police seek suspect after sexual assault at Esplanade Drive park
- Bright Lights Windsor 2026 opens Friday, Nov. 27 at Jackson Park
- WECOSS says 31 opioid overdoses were seen in Windsor-Essex emergency departments Oct
- Spirit 3, Spitfires 2 in a shootout at the WFCU Centre on Thanksgiving Monday
- Ontario adds close to $4.9M for four Windsor-Essex manufacturers, 69 jobs planned
- CUPE Local 2974.2 members have ratified a three-year deal for 350+ Essex-Windsor EMS
- Kingsville: two charged after stolen vehicles hit a home and emergency vehicles
- Laid-off Stelco worker: one week of pay, grievance ask, no CEO reply
- Essex-Windsor EMS staff have until noon Tuesday to vote on their tentative deal
- Witching Hour - Legends
- Windsor Police charged a paralegal in Oct 2024 over $995,610 in alleged fraud
- Estate theft and financial abuse of older adults happens in Windsor-Essex too
- Four hospital levy questions, one deadline: the City reply is due Tuesday at 5 p.m.
- Local Inspirations: Stacey Robert-Tobin turned her own infertility struggle into support for 800+
- Witching Hour - Mystery: the Windsor Hum, real, measured, never pinned down
- Voting myth vs. fact: Windsor's Oct. 26 municipal election
- Four Essex County minor hockey teams picked for RONA Rookies
- Then and now: the Ambassador Bridge opened to traffic in November 1929
- Generals beat Spitfires 5-1 at the WFCU Centre
- You asked, we checked: the hospital levy and the Fancsy gift
- Lancers football upsets No. 3 Queen's 25-22 in Kingston
- Le Griffon: the ship that sailed past Windsor and vanished
- Kingsville's 57th Migration Festival runs Oct. 16 to 18
- Rain Sunday, sunny Thanksgiving Monday in Windsor forecast
- No line at the WFCU Centre advance poll Saturday afternoon
- Public school trustee races: 18 candidates for 6 Windsor seats
- Lancers hockey opens OUA with 3-2 win over Lakehead
- Winter didn't stop Prohibition smugglers
- Run With Responders 5K raises $11,250 for three local charities
- Windsor Police HQ front counter hours change Nov. 2
- Students can vote in Windsor and at home: what to know
- Lancers women beat StFX 68-57 in Toronto
- Windsor council races by the numbers: 43 candidates in 10 wards
- First structural concrete poured at Fancsy Family Hospital site
- Advance voting starts in Windsor: dates, locations and hours
- Fort Malden and the legend of the circling warriors
- Ward 10 candidate Masanovich proposes mobility and safety plan
- Where Windsor's 11 mayoral candidates stand on housing
- The pattern behind the Stellantis impasse
- Fanshawe sweeps St. Clair Saints baseball doubleheader
- Your Windsor ballot is more than mayor
- Thanksgiving weekend family fun:
- Essex County Council has ratified the tentative deal with CUPE Local 2974.2
- Labour council lists endorsements for the Oct. 26 municipal vote
- Lancer women take silver at the U of T Invitational, four strokes back of Guelph
- Unifor sets Stellantis strike vote for Oct. 17 and 18
- In their words: closing pitches from Tuesday's CBC Windsor mayoral debate
- The space beneath the floor at Sandwich First Baptist
- Early look at Thanksgiving weekend weather in Windsor
- WECOSS says 30 opioid overdoses were seen in Windsor-Essex emergency departments Sept
- Free meet and greet with Windsor's mayoral candidates Wednesday, Oct. 7
- We asked Dilkens, Francis and Pasquach whether all 11 mayoral candidates should be on
- Tentative deal for Essex-Windsor EMS
- Not on stage: CBC Windsor's mayoral debate today at 4 p.m
- Windsor's oldest house has a dog nobody can find
- LaSalle Fire Service: Charge into Fire Safety, Oct. 4 to 10
- Security Building: 31 downtown apartments, $50,000 City grant plus a tax rebate
- Late heartbreak at Alumni: Brock beat the Lancers men 2-1 on an 89th-minute goal
- CBC Windsor hosts live mayoral debate Tuesday, Oct. 6 at 4 p.m.
- Amherstburg's oldest building came by water
- Windsor's week ahead looks like a postcard: sunny Monday and Tuesday at 18°
- Connected Windsor: Pasquach cycling plan gets Bike Windsor Essex backing
- Lancers football crushed York 51-2 on Alumni Weekend
- Sandpoint Beach: closed to swimming since June 2025, now a campaign pledge
- The Dragging Ghost of Mackenzie Hall
- Windsor News is now on the web
- EMS strike clock: no deal, deadline now Oct. 8
- City Hall sweep: police say it cost them $0
- BIG Motorcity Show rolls into Fogolar this Sunday
- Ward 2 Coun. Frazier Fathers proposes a 1% property-tax increase for housing
- Downtown Windsor: what the mayoral candidates propose
- Former Chief Bellaire: what the record shows
- Windsor’s Zombie Walk is back
- Chamber mayoral debate: Dilkens, Francis and Pasquach at the Chrysler Theatre
- City's $1.5M for the Downtown Mission: tax-levy share still Unclear
- One $2,626,537 budget item, two descriptions in City documents
September 2026
- Bert Kreischer at The Colosseum on Thursday
- Police crisis teams answered 4,300 calls since January, 1,896 downtown
- Free orchestra night in a downtown garage
- Soup Shack has an Amazon wish list: items ship straight to the kitchen
- City of Windsor responds in writing on its $24,000 sole-source contract with GT & Co
- National Day for Truth and Reconciliation: what's closed and open in Windsor on Sept. 30
- Ontario takes on the federal gun ban at the Supreme Court
- How Mayor Dilkens has used strong mayor powers
- Chamber mayoral debate Tuesday at the Chrysler Theatre
- Public-board trustee candidates' open house at Kennedy Collegiate
- Tecumseh asks Transit Windsor for a cost estimate; no price public yet
- Voter cards mail the week of Sept. 28, and you don't need one to vote
- Council to decide on heritage designation for the former CKLW and CBC building
- Downtown Soup Shack now serving 150 to 200 people a night
- After three years of denials, City grants Windsor man an accessible parking spot
- Windsor Pizza Festival at City Hall Square: free admission, $2 slices
- Transit Windsor's Umo fare system launches Oct. 5
- Dilkens pledges a police Real-Time Operations Centre if re-elected
- City opens Expression of Interest for former Concord Elementary site
- WREN career fair Sept. 24; Costco hiring fair drew long lines
- Central Branch opens at 400 City Hall Square
- Bring a card: cash is out at some WRH Pay and Display lots
- ERCA's 2027 draft budget is status quo; the merger is the levy question
- Downtown high-visibility police patrols Sept. 22 to 24
- One-year countdown: Peace Fountain targeted to flow again Sept. 21, 2027
- Howard and Division paving: lane closures near the mall through Oct. 16
- Unifor and Stellantis contract covering Windsor Assembly expires; talks still in conciliation
- Forest Glade long-term care open house Monday night
- Festival of Hawks at Holiday Beach
- Central Library's last day at the Paul Martin Building
- First CFIA-confirmed spotted lanternfly detection in Canada is in Windsor