FLOOD UPDATE: "The water is rising and it's going to come fast"
Shirley Laws is the textbook definition of being prepared. Laws, 40, spent Saturday getting ready as the rising Ottawa River started lapping the shore and then the road running alongside this old...
View Article'Pillar of the community': Woman, 72, killed in Pontiac after road washed away
Minutes before Louise Séguin Lortie plunged to her death in a creek bed while driving home Saturday morning, another motorist up ahead was stopped just before the metres-deep hole where the road had...
View ArticleFlood watch: River levels continue to rise in Gatineau Monday as 98 people...
The famed Van Doos are patrolling the streets of Gatineau, inspecting infrastructure and bagging sand for hundreds of residents along the Ottawa River scrambling to fortify their homes as the water...
View ArticleFlooding updates: Capital region prepares for more flooding as water levels...
This year’s spring flood claimed the life of a motorist Saturday as the Ottawa River continued its rise toward an expected peak later this week. Read More
View Article'We want this nightmare to be over,' grieving family says at teen murderer's...
The boy in the prisoner's box looked out of place at his sentencing hearing on Wednesday for the Dec. 23, 2017 murder of Keith Fitzsimmons, a grandfather who was shot in the back in a random gunpoint...
View ArticleFlood watch Quebec: 'I can't be angry because it's Mother Nature'
Nelson Pimental, a big and strong man, stopped short of crying in the rain Friday afternoon. Alone and under a steady sheet of rain, he moved all of the contents from his flooded home (knee-deep) —...
View ArticleByWard Market needle-point robber nabbed
A young Ottawa man has been arrested after a couple was terrorized in the ByWard Market early Saturday, with a mugger grabbing a woman's purse while holding a needle to her throat, threatening to...
View ArticleConstance Bay evacuation: 'Unfortunately, Mother Nature is stronger than us'
Saying people were in danger, Coun. Eli El-Chantiry announced a voluntary evacuation on Tuesday night along Bayview Drive in Constance Bay. Read More
View Article'If we go to work, we’ll lose our house'
The Ottawa River started to slowly rise Wednesday along Masson-Angers after first ice-pellets, then rain came down. Shirley Laws, 40, and her boyfriend have been fighting for two weeks now trying to...
View ArticleCanada's 'Godfather' of prison reform guilty of arson: 'What I did was stupid"
Eighty-one-year-old Gaston Nicholas, known as the Godfather of prison reform, might be going back to prison after setting fire to two rental homes in 2016 because he was angry at his landlords. Read More
View ArticleSex assault case dropped against former NHLer Tiger Williams
The Ottawa Crown Attorney's office has dropped its sexual assault case against retired NHL enforcer David "Tiger" Williams after the former hockey player apologized for his regrettable behaviour aboard...
View ArticleEx-military man guilty in meth-driving crash that killed 'kind, caring'...
Craig Malcolm Duncan, just 17, was, by all accounts, one of the kindest souls around, and on the night of Jan. 20, 2017, he was driving home with his girlfriend when an ex-military man high on meth was...
View ArticleOttawa teen accused of killing mom gets bail
Lennese Kublu, who’s accused of killing her mom in their family home, has been granted bail. Kublu, 19, is accused of stabbing her mom, Susan Kuplu, to death on Jan. 10 in their public rowhouse on...
View ArticleByWard Market serial rapist branded dangerous offender
Phillip Wilson looked anything but sorry as he stood in the prisoner's box after being branded a dangerous offender for drugging, raping and secretly videotaping 13 women. Read More
View ArticleNevin case: Crown won't appeal 'lenient' sentence after cyclist died in...
Ottawa prosecutors will not appeal last month's sentencing of Deinsberg St-Hilaire, who was spared jail after admitting he went to great lengths to cover his tracks and hide from police after a 2015...
View ArticleOttawa farmhand jailed 3 years in 2017 crash that killed mother, daughter
Sumit Darji, a refugee labourer supporting four children in Ottawa, was speeding to work on Sept. 7, 2017, when he made a most reckless, deliberate, and ultimately deadly move. Read More
View ArticleOttawa sex-slave convicts win new trial
Former Ottawa lovers found guilty of using teen girls as sex slaves on the 2014 Victoria Day weekend have had their convictions set aside after the appeal court ruled the trial judge's errors and...
View Article'I didn't stab him,' accused killer tells Ottawa jury
Awale Hussein took the stand in his own defence Tuesday, telling a jury he didn't slash Brian Boucher to death after a night of drugs and booze at a basement apartment in the east end. Read More
View ArticleMan sought in hotel room sexual assault attacked woman at Algonquin College...
Police are asking the public to help them find a man accused of entering a downtown hotel room earlier this month then sexually assaulting a victim inside. Read More
View ArticleOttawa Sunday school teacher gets five years for knifepoint rape, threats to...
Three years after she was raped at knifepoint in her own bedroom, the Ottawa woman still has nightmares. The woman says she blames herself, but as court heard Friday, disgraced Sunday school teacher...
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