There were 100 swimmers. They ranged in age from their mid-20s to 91. And it took them five hours, 53 minutes and 54 seconds. And when it was all done, the Pointe Claire Masters swim team had accomplished what they set out to do — set a new world’s record and submit their feat to the Guinness Book of World Records.

With the prospects of yet two more studies on the ecological and public benefit of preserving Pointe Claire’s Fairview Forest expected to be delivered in the coming months, the grassroots group that has been pushing for the wooded area to be preserved as a natural space is continuing to beat its drum in an ongoing campaign to galvanize support to save the woodlot from development.

A 36-year-old motorcyclist clocked by police driving 160 kilometres per hour on Highway 40 in Dorval early Saturday morning has been fined $3,268.

Montreal police arson investigators are looking into a fire that caused extensive damage early Monday morning to a building on St. Regis Blvd. in Dorval.

Beaconsfield residents whose homes are equipped with wood-burning fireplaces or stoves must declare these devices to the city by this fall, if they haven’t already done so. Residents with these devices have until Sept. 30 to file a declaration form with the city.

Heavily armed RCMP officers quietly stormed an apartment building at 55 Lakeshore Rd. in Pointe Claire last Thursday as the sun was rising and took away a man in handcuffs — one of seven raids in the Montreal region conducted that morning at the request of American law enforcement authorities as part of a massive three-year investigation into a West Island-based gang of scammers targeting elderly American citizens...

How does a homeless person in need of access to mental-health care access the system? Finding an answer to that question is what the West Island’s only homeless shelter is doing in May.

The body of 18-year-old Choui, a student at Cégep Gérald Godin, was located less than a kilometre east from where he and a fellow student, 17, fell through the ice on the afternoon of March 26 after leaving classes at the college.