Psychic grilled at murder trial of OC Transpo drivers
It wasn’t just any nod. This was a nod — up and down for Yes — from OC Transpo driver Bhupinderpal Gill, and he was agreeing with his mistress when she told a psychic that the secret lovers would do...
View ArticleCitizen team earns National Newspaper Award for Wilno coverage
The Citizen has won a coveted National Newspaper Award for its coverage of a shooting rampage that claimed the lives of three women in September and left a grief-stricken Ottawa Valley community in...
View ArticleBattle of the bots: Student robot-designers show off their creations
Designing, building and programming a robot that can navigate an obstacle course sounds like it should be a task for highly trained engineers. On Saturday, kids as young as 10 years old put the lie to...
View ArticleNine-year-old girl badly hurt in multi-vehicle crash
A nine-year-old girl was being treated for serious injuries and a 47-year-old woman was airlifted to hospital after a two-vehicle collision on Rogers Stevens Drive at Dwyer Hill Road — almost 60...
View ArticleAround Town: Firefighters fan fundraising flames for Girls Night Out
This year’s Girls Night Out was issued its own extreme heat alert after some of Ottawa’s smoking-hot firefighters volunteered to help out at the 10th annual benefit dinner and auction for Hospice Care...
View ArticleTwo injured in single-vehicle crash on St. Laurent Boulevard
Police are investigating a single-vehicle crash at St. Laurent Blvd. and Ogilvie Road early Sunday. At about 4 a.m., paramedics found the car had careened off the road, over a sidewalk, into a number...
View ArticleThe clash of cymbals: The NACO season will close with some very precocious...
It has been an eventful first season for the NACO’s music director Alexander Shelley and now it will close with a clash of cymbals, some pounding percussion and a hefty dose of Wagner in the form of a...
View ArticleTeen in critical condition after east-end crash
An 18-year-old woman had to be freed from her car after a two-car collision at Viseneau Drive and Bromont Way in Orléans at about 6:35 a.m. She was unconscious but breathing with a street light on top...
View ArticleRedblacks bringing back Burris for 2017, with pay cut
On the first day of Ottawa Redblacks training camp, the big news looked like it would be the health of Aston Whiteside, the young defensive end who was so dynamic a year ago before tearing ligaments in...
View ArticleTeen woman, nine-year-old among those badly hurt on area roads
A string of collisions sent at least nine people to hospital over a weekend that began with city police announcing the results of their annual road safety blitz. A three-vehicle collision briefly shut...
View ArticleTragically Hip pre-sales swift and steep
Fans who weren’t top of the line to get Tragically Hip tickets during the pre-sale that started Monday morning were crying foul on social media when the hot commodity soon showed up on re-sale sites at...
View ArticleArtist carves out a niche with figurines of local personalities
It was one of those random encounters that on any other day in Katie Hession’s busy life as a mother, teacher and blogger might never have happened. Her two preschoolers might have been restless. She...
View ArticleHuman trafficking initiative gives hope to a growing number of survivors
Human trafficking survivors in Ottawa now have another place to turn. The Hope Found Project was launched by Voice Found, an Ottawa non-profit that works to prevent child sex abuse and sex trafficking...
View ArticleSeventy years of memories as Boushey's on Elgin Street prepares to close
In 1946, Lebanese immigrant Diab Boushey bought a little grocery store in the very heart of the capital in the country of which he was so proud. Ever since, there’s been a Boushey behind the counter at...
View ArticlePolice holding simulated security op at east end 'spy palace'
The Ottawa Police Service is partnering with the Communications Security Establishment Tuesday morning for a joint training exercise at CSE’s new billion-dollar headquarters in Gloucester. Police are...
View ArticleFound: Fabulous flavourful oils
What: Local Kricklewood Farm sunflower oil, now in four fabulous flavour infusions. Why: Kricklewood’s regular sunflower oil is already liquid gold: delicious, cold-pressed the old-fashioned way from...
View ArticlePolice seek public's assistance to locate missing man, 57
Ottawa police are asking for the public’s assistance in locating a missing 57-year-old Ottawa man. According to police, Yasin Ali, was last seen on Monday at 6 p.m. He is known to frequent shelters in...
View ArticleVolunteer Roundup
Looking for volunteer work? Check out these and other Ottawa-area opportunities at www.volunteerottawa.ca or call 613-736-5270. The Kidney Foundation of Canada is a national volunteer organization...
View ArticleBest bets for going out, June 2 to 8
Folk Lynn Saxberg Join Ottawa Valley musician Julie Corrigan as she launches a new monthly showcase featuring female singer-songwriters from Ottawa and beyond. Girls to the Front will take place at...
View ArticleFrom succession planning to skilled workers, business challenges looming in...
Small business owners are planning to retire en masse within the next 15 years, according to the 2016 Ottawa Business Growth Study. The study, released annually by the Ottawa Chamber of Commerce and...
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