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• OC Transpo union calling on city to pull articulated buses in smaller snowstorms

  The head of the union representing OC Transpo drivers says the city's bar for pulling articulated buses from service during snowstorms is too high.

  

• Health advocates in Ottawa watching B.C. drug decriminalization closely

  British Columbia is taking a new approach to address the opioid crisis by decriminalizing small amounts of certain illicit drugs for personal use. Health advocates in Ottawa say they're watching the move closely.

  

• Commission probing use of Emergencies Act for 2022 trucker protests granted extension

  The commission investigating the federal government's use of the Emergencies Act to quell the trucker protests last winter in Ottawa has asked for more time to complete its report.

  

• Missing Ottawa man's car found in Pembroke, Ont.

  The car of an Ottawa man reported missing earlier this month has been found in Pembroke, Ont., police said Tuesday.

  

• Two serious crashes on Ottawa roads Tuesday morning

  Emergency crews had to extricate people from vehicles in two separate crashes in Ottawa on Tuesday morning.

• The Rideau Canal Skateway by the numbers

  The Rideau Canal Skateway remains closed to skaters after a mild January and it is unclear if it will open before or after its record latest opening date of Feb. 2.

• Federal investigators probing workplace death in Johnstown, Ont.

  Federal regulators are investigating a workplace death that happened last week at the Port of Johnstown, Ont.

• Loblaw ends No Name price freeze, vows 'flat' pricing 'wherever possible'

  Loblaw will not be extending its price freeze on No Name brand products, but vows to keep the yellow label product-pricing flat 'wherever possible.'

• Still no answers on yearslong bread price-fixing scandal: law professor

  More than five years since Canada’s Competition Bureau began an investigation into an alleged bread-price fixing scheme, no conclusions have been drawn nor charges laid. As the watchdog is now probing whether grocery stores are profiting from inflation, one expert says the effectiveness of its tools are in question.

• Ottawa LRT trains travelling slower due to snow buildup

  If you've taken the LRT recently and it seemed a little bit slower than usual, you're not imagining it.

• Cornwall, Ont. forklift driver wins $1 million Encore prize

  A Cornwall, Ont. man is a million dollars richer after winning an Encore prize late last year.

• Patients left in lurch after Orleans doctors plan to close practices

  Patients of an east Ottawa clinic say they've been left in the lurch after learning they would need to find new family doctors because their doctors were closing their medical practices.

• OPP identify victim in Eganville femicide as mother of accused

  Ontario Provincial Police have formally identified a woman who was found dead in Eganville last week as the mother of an 18-year-old man accused of murder.

• Frigid temperatures in Ottawa on Tuesday

  Environment Canada’s weather forecast calls for sunny skies and a high of -8 C today. The wind chill will make it feel more like -27 this morning and more like -11 this afternoon.