Kristy Nease

A minute-by-minute account — with our most compelling videos and photos — of the six tornadoes that wreaked havoc in the Ottawa-Gatineau area on Sept. 21, 2018.

A former Ottawa police civilian executive is suing his former employer for upwards of $2.7 million, claiming he was unfairly dismissed last year after an anonymous person alleged he wasn’t paying taxes on a take-home vehicle.

Dr. Mustapha Abdul Mumin never really believed in racism. But his experience fleeing the war in Ukraine has taught him, for the first time, that he is different.

Many homeowners are juggling two competing fears after thousands of trees were destroyed in the May derecho — of climate change being made worse by a lack of trees, and of the trees around them being made more dangerous by one of the effects of climate change: increasingly severe weather.

The scars in Ottawa’s tree canopy, cut by a powerful derecho windstorm that killed twelve people in Ontario and Quebec, are beginning to fill in.

A woman forced out of her Ottawa apartment after water poured in from the ceiling last winter says repairs took too long and her co-operative repeatedly failed to communicate and extend hotel stays until after checkout, causing undue stress while she was trying to conceive.

After seven years, the second-biggest lawsuit ever filed against the City of Ottawa is one step closer to the end after closing arguments were heard at trial this week — but a decision might still be a long way off.

Carrie Boudreau’s two daughters, Ashley Boudreau, 24, and Sommer Boudreau, 39, were killed by men nearly 13 years apart. Now her grandchildren look to her for strength.

The former head of the union representing rank and file Ottawa police officers and civilian members — who resigned in 2022 years after criminal charges were laid against him and was recently elected chair of a board that advocates for veterans of the force — is facing a new charge.

Relatives of a 74-year-old retired nurse in Cornwall say Ontario’s health care and justice systems need to rethink how they handle people with mental illness, and their caregivers. After her mental health took a turn for the worse in 2018, she’s been charged and hospitalized dozens of times, only to end up back in jail, on the street, or admitted to hospital again.