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What is Glowfair?
A free, two-day street party with music, art and light — lots of light — Glowfair is organized by the Bank Street Business Improvement Area to draw visitors to the largely commercial district. Now in...
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Ottawa sinkhole repair on the right track, says forensic structural engineer
Ottawa’s sinkhole repair is on the right track, said Yasser Korany, a forensic structural engineer at Canadian engineering firm Origin and Cause. Ottawa “stabilized” the Rideau Street sinkhole over the...
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CityFolk back for more at Lansdowne with eclectic lineup
Australia’s Vance Joy, British singer-songwriter James Bay, Boston Celtic rockers Dropkick Murphys and the enigmatic Guided By Voices are among the biggest names headed to this year’s edition of...
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Daniel Alfredsson moving back to Ottawa
This time, Daniel Alfredsson is coming home to stay. Not only is the former Senators captain going to return in his current role as a senior adviser to hockey operations after agreeing to a one-year...
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Senators GM Dorion gets to work as off-season begins
The final buzzer has sounded on the NHL’s season and now the off-season officially begins. While Senators GM Pierre Dorion got a big job off his plate by hiring coach Guy Boucher and associate coach...
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Police seek public's help to identify robbery suspect
The Ottawa Police Service is seeking help to identify a suspect believed to have been involved in a convenience store robbery over the weekend. According to police, a man entered a convenience store...
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Part of city's cash-handling audit could be kept secret
Taxpayers could be kept out of the loop on part of an audit recommending changes to the cash handling at a downtown municipal service centre. Auditor general Ken Hughes is scheduled to table a report...
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Sinclair calls on city to embrace UN declaration on indigenous human rights
Senator Murray Sinclair delivered a history lesson Tuesday at Ottawa City Hall while calling on the city to use a United Nations declaration as a “framework” to engage the local indigenous community....
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4,900 blew camera-guarded red lights in 2015 without getting tickets
Motorists who live outside Ontario were caught burning red lights in Ottawa 4,900 times last year but got away without being fined. That’s because the City of Ottawa didn’t yet have the legislative...
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Marketplace: Beer mugs for dad
If your dad fancies a frosty pint on a hot summer day then a beer mug is the ideal gift for him this Father’s Day. We paid a visit to the Ottawa Train Yards where we found a variety of styles and...
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Police seek suspect in south-end convenience store robbery
The Ottawa Police Service is seeking the public’s help to identify a suspect believed to be involved in a convenience store robbery in the city’s south end on Monday. Police said a lone male entered a...
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Daytripping: Quebec Hwy. 148 to Saint-Andresaxo
Where did you go? Crossing from Ontario to Quebec via the Cumberland ferry ($10 for a car), we drove east along Hwy. 148, which stretches along the north shore of the Ottawa River from the Pontiac to...
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Covenience store robbery suspect turns himself in to police
A suspect believed to be involved in a convenience store robbery in Ottawa’s south end turned himself into police Wednesday night. The Ottawa Police Service charged the 45-year-old male suspect with...
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Guns and gangs unit investigating after man shot in leg
Ottawa police are probing the account of a man who walked into an emergency room early Wednesday morning with a gunshot wound to the leg and reported he’d been shot in the Fisher Avenue and Baseline...
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Busloads of Ottawa high school students head to Quebec for after-prom, alcohol
Post-prom planning groups from at least 15 Ottawa high schools have partnered with a private party planner to ship students across the border to Gatineau for late night celebrations, where the legal...
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Egan: Five Man Electrical loses original bass player, local rock pillar
Ottawa’s Five Man Electrical Band produced one song, Signs, that is part of rock’s canon, and an opening shout-out — to “long-haired freaky people”— that embedded itself in our catalogue of absorbed...
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Police seek public's help to locate alleged gun-toting motorcyclist
Ottawa police are seeking the public’s help to identify a motorcyclist engaging in reckless behaviour on several roadways within the nation’s capital, including allegedly toting a handgun and pointing...
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Ottawa Senators Foundation donates $2.2M to Roger Neilson House
The Ottawa Senators Foundation announced Thursday that it will donate $2.2M to the facility that has provided respite and end-of-life support to children in Ontario since 2006. The announcement was...
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Rescue teams from both sides of Ottawa River aid stranded kayaker
Firefighters sent a water rescue team to help a kayaker who was struggling in the strong current of the Ottawa River’s Deschênes Rapids on Thursday evening. Ottawa Fire Services received a 911 call at...
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New on the street: Larco Homes's back-to-front homes on Pinhey St. in Hintonburg
One of the coolest neighbourhoods in the city has a new player dedicated to adding a modern edge to the working class community of small clapboard homes where many clamber onto rooftops to barbecue or...
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