Ontario News

As small communities across Ontario struggle to recruit doctors and nurses, one town has landed on a strategy that appears poised for success: giving them "a bag of money up front." That's the incentive on offer in Huntsville, Ont.

Ontario Provincial Police say a teenager is dead following a motorcycle crash Friday night in Haldimand County. They say the driver of the motorcycle was an 18-year-old man from Denfield, Ont.

STRATFORD, ONT. — A shooting in Stratford, Ont., has killed two people, including the suspected gunman, and injured two others, police said, describing the incident as linked to an "ongoing neighbour dispute.

MILTON, Ont. — Ontario's police watchdog says it's investigating a two-vehicle crash in March that left three people dead.

TORONTO — The Toronto Zoo says one of its red panda cubs has died, highlighting the fragility of the species in their first few months whether under human care or in the wild.

A patchwork of weather warnings is blanketing Ontario, as Environment Canada calls for possible torrential downpours in the south and blistering temperatures to the north and east.

HAMILTON — A film festival celebrating sex workers is set to open in Hamilton, with organizers describing the event as the first of its kind in Canada. The two-day Sex Workers’ Film and Arts Festival features documentaries, panels and performances.

The Parole Board of Canada has sent Brayden Bushby back to jail, revoking the release granted to the man convicted of killing an Indigenous woman by throwing a trailer hitch at her from a moving vehicle in Thunder Bay, Ont.

OSHAWA, Ont. — A new hospital in Whitby, Ont., will be built and operational within 10 years, Health Minister Sylvia Jones said Thursday.

KIRKFIELD, Ont. — Police have charged a man with murder in the case of the missing Markham, Ont., woman whose remains have been found in central Ontario.