Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) say they found a missing swimmer’s body after several hours of searching Bonnechere Valley’s Lake Clear on Sunday. In a news […]
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Motorcyclist crashes, dies in Chelsea
MRC des Collines-de-l’Outaouais police say a 30-year-old man from Gatineau left the road on his motorcycle, crashed and died Sunday in Gatineau Park. It happened after […]
Teen shot, killed in residential part of Centretown
Ottawa police say an 18-year-old man was shot and killed around Percy and Nepean streets at about 9:45 p.m. Sunday. They said in an email […]
‘Raucous’ budget season begins in Ottawa
It’s been a long, long time — some 15 years — since a budget process at Ottawa city hall has raised the spectre of huge cuts or a painful property tax hike. […]
Can there be new life, again, for Gatineau Park’s O’Brien Hotel?
In the heart of Gatineau Park sits a multi-storey home-turned-hotel overlooking Meech Lake and a vast expanse of forest. It’s called O’Brien House. Its history, […]
What happens in Ontario after bodies go ‘unclaimed’
Two or three times a year, Jean-René Berthiaume gets a call about an “unclaimed” body. A fourth-generation funeral director in Hawkesbury, Ont., Berthiaume routinely works with families on the […]
Advocates frustrated as encampment off-limits 3 days after Kingston double homicide
Police maintained a cordon Sunday around the Kingston encampment where two people were killed and a third critically injured three days earlier, as local advocates […]
2 pedestrians killed in separate Outaouais collisions overnight
Two separate vehicle collisions on Saturday night in the Outaouais region have left two pedestrians dead. The first occurred at approximately 8:45 p.m. on Route 105 in […]
As transit funding gap between Ottawa and Toronto widens, lobbying revs up
New data from the Ontario government’s Financial Accountability Office shows the Toronto economic region gets far more funding to operate its ailing transit providers than the […]
Here’s what issues are on the minds of Bay of Quinte byelection candidates
Seven candidates are vying for the MPP seat recently left vacant in Bay of Quinte, their concerns reflecting a host of issues including health care, home affordability […]