Ottawa Citizen

This was the last weekend leading into Christmas Day and, a week later, New Year's Day, so it was expected to be filled with holiday travellers. Read More

Another 18 Eastern Ontario drivers face the holidays without their vehicles after they were arrested in the fourth week of the Ontario Provincial Police's Festive RIDE (Reduce Impaired Driving Everywhere) campaign. Read More

Ottawa-Vanier Liberal MP Mona Fortier has been appointed chief government whip in Parliament, the prime minister's office announced Saturday. Read More

Saturday 10 p.m. ET, Rogers Arena Read More

Ottawa's professional lacrosse team, the national capital's new franchise in the National Lacrosse League (NLL). Read More

OC Transpo service cuts, another fare increase, pulling money from the City of Ottawa's rainy-day reserves, even a special transit levy on top of one agreed to in the 2025 budget are all on the table if the city doesn't get the $36 million from "higher levels of government" it's counting on. Read More

Zack Sandhu can breathe easy. Read More

On a wall of the Silver Dart Arena in Petawawa hangs an encased Team Canada jersey full of signatures from the members of the squad that won the 2009 world junior hockey championship in Ottawa. Read More

A Jewish group, supported by dozens of academics and former government officials, is appealing Library and Archives Canada’s decision to keep secret information on suspected Nazis who settled in Canada after the Second World War. Read More

Several suspects, including two people in their 70s, face several charges following a crackdown on illegal tobacco in Gatineau. Read More

It's difficult to be overly critical of a hockey team that has won five straight games. Read More

An Ottawa driver experienced a costly case of déjà vu Thursday, when Ottawa police pulled them over for doing 140 km/h in an 80-km/h zone on Limebank Road. Read More

Ottawa police are looking for other possible victims after a man was arrested Dec. 14 for surreptitiously filming women in a public washroom. Read More

With the holiday season upon us, here’s what you need to know about what’s open and closed in Ottawa over the holidays. Read More

The member of Parliament for Ottawa South, David McGuinty, has been named minister of public safety. Read More

If the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result, it’s time the clinicians walked the Liberal Party and their fatally flawed leader down to a room with rubber walls. Read More

One tenant has been displaced following a fire Thursday night at a low-rise apartment building on Gloucester Street in Centretown. Read More

The Treasury Board of Canada will be headed by a new minister after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau unveiled his new cabinet on the morning of Dec. 20. Read More

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Just because Christmas is a treasured tradition doesn’t mean your holiday décor has to be cast in stone. Ottawa-area retailers have all sorts of options for freshening up your festive style—starting with the tree. Read More