Border Crossings increase

Some positive news on the tourism front in northwestern Ontario.

Statistics released by the Canada Border Services Agency show almost 54-thousand travellers crossed in March.

That's about 25-hundred more than in February and a 7-and-a-half per cent increase over March 2011.

Just over 29-thousand vehicles were processed at the border, a slight increase over February numbers, but a one per cent drop from one year ago.