Dec 18, 2024 · The City of Ottawa is bracing for thousands of hockey fans to descend on the nation’s capital for the World Junior Hockey Championship by ensuring they have transportation to and from the games. The tournament will officially start Dec. 26 and run until Jan. 5, with preliminary games beginning on Thursday. In response to the […]

Dec 16, 2024 · A Vancouver man was arrested and charged with second-degree murder in connection to the historical stabbing death of Christopher Smith. In the early hours of April 12, 1996, Smith was stabbed in an altercation on the Portage Bridge between Ottawa and Gatineau. He was walking back after a night out with his cousin. In a review of the cold case, police used advanced DNA testing to lay charges in ...

Dec 29, 2024 · The rain is expected to stop to ring in the new year with some flurries making it optimal weather for both indoor and outdoor activities.

Dec 24, 2024 · Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Ottawa detachment responded to a handful of collisions along highways 416 and 417, in the early hours this morning. As commuters face snow and icy road conditions, snowplow operators worked through the night to improve road safety for the morning commute, wrote OPP in a post on X. But OPP warns […]

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Dec 11, 2024 · Ottawa councillors approved the city’s 2025 budget, which has a $36 million gap in funding that the municipality hopes will be filled by upper levels of government. The nearly $5 billion municipal blueprint includes a tax increase of 2.9 per cent, and with a need to invest in transit, it raises the bottom line for taxpayers. The final bill …

The Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) is identifying 22 people who have been arrested and charged in relation to a several-month-long drug trafficking investigation called 'Project Nield.' Officers executed eight search warrants at several locations in the towns of Pembroke, Renfrew and Arnprior on December 2. Suspected fentanyl, heroin, cocaine, crack cocaine, crystal methamphetamines, and ...

Nov 13, 2024 · Councillors gathered at Ottawa City Hall Wednesday morning to receive the proposed 2025 budget, which suggests a municipal tax increase of 2.9 per cent, but including an increase to transit, it raises the bottom line for taxpayers. “The budget increases (OC Transpo) fares by 5 per cent and the transit levy by 8 per cent […]

Dec 3, 2024 · Dozens of demonstrators took over the lobby of the Confederation Building on Tuesday morning to protest the Canadian government’s response to the Israel-Gaza war. According to a press release from the group, Jews Say No To Genocide Coalition, the occupation is in response to the “catastrophic levels of hunger” and ongoing “business as usual” with […]