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Join the Grand River Black Music Festival & Conference from June 14-16, 2024, at Kitchener Public Library. Celebrate Black music and culture with panels, concerts, and food vendors. Don't miss keynotes from Jully Black, Erroll Starr, and performances by the Toronto Mass Choir. Get tickets at www.grandriverblackmusic.com.

Two Purolator truck drivers being hailed as heroes, misconduct in a Kitchener strip club, and population growth for the Region of Waterloo round out the most-read stories of the week.

Waterloo Regional Police say they laid 470 charges during Canada Road Safety Week.

Cyclist seriously injured in Kitchener crash with vehicle, police anticipate charges.

Two men in Kitchener were charged after a search warrant uncovered drugs, weapons, and stolen property, leading to numerous drug trafficking charges and a bail hearing, police said.

The Region of Waterloo, local economic development departments and the Waterloo Economic Development Corporation are launching the 2024 workplace count, a comprehensive survey that aims to reach every employer in the region.

A new public washroom has opened in Uptown Waterloo and not only can it self-clean, but its all fully accessible.

A Cambridge councillor has withdrawn a motion asking the city to find a solution in a parking dispute that prevented a community health van from setting up outside the Bridges shelter.

With Ontarios eight species of turtles considered at risk, a new nest designed by researchers has the potential to significantly bolster their struggling populations. The habitat is the first designed for turtles in rock barren landscapes, such as the research site around Georgian Bay. It uses moss and lichen. The researchers found that the design provided a more stable environment for incubating eggs compared to natural sites, where the probability of an egg hatching was only 10 per cent compar...

A team of glaciologists led by researchers at the University of California, Irvine used high-resolution satellite radar data to find evidence of the intrusion of warm, high-pressure seawater many kilometers beneath the grounded ice of West Antarctica's Thwaites Glacier.