People struggling with insomnia tend to hyperfocus on the fact that they can't sleep, which can prevent them from getting any shut-eye. Experts share effective practices to overcome sleep stress.

Cold weather, tight budgets and meat-free cooking have made chickpeas the MVP of winter meals.

Shaw Festival plans to start tearing down the Queen Street building and neighbouring Tranter’s House, used for the Niagara-on-the-Lake theatre company’s wardrobe operations, in early February.

Proposed changes to amalgamate Ontario’s 36 conservation authorities into seven have raised alarm bells for land-use decisions.

Sleek Development had been proposing to build a mid-range apartment building, but is now constructing townhouses.

The fiscal watchdog warned the province continues to face economic uncertainty as workers in auto, machinery, and metal products grapple with 20,600 fewer jobs compared to two years ago.

Scientists have found the first compelling evidence that cognitive training can boost levels of a brain chemical that typically declines as people age. The results of this 10-week study back earlier animal research showing that environments that stimulate the brain can increase levels of certain neurotransmitters. And other studies of people have suggested that cognitive training can improve thinking and memory. So how does it all work? And by how much does it all work? Here to break everything down and help you understand how to keep your brain sharp is NPR science correspondent Jon Hamilton.Interested in more brain science? Email us your question at shortwave@npr.org.Listen to every episode of Short Wave sponsor-free and support our work at NPR by signing up for Short Wave+ at plus.npr.org/shortwave.

A 19-storey apartment building at the corner of Geneva and Church streets will provide a “gateway to the downtown,” St. Catharines city councillors heard Monday as they cleared the path for the develo...

A new agency to centralize development approvals would be called the Ontario Provincial Conservation Agency.

Mountainview Fairgrounds Development Inc. turned over 3.4 hectares of land in the southwest corner of the property to District School Board of Niagara for the new Welland-Thorold Elementary School.