Robyn Miller

Many closets and car trunks are overflowing with reusable shopping bags as some shoppers admit they can’t remember to bring them back to the store and keep having to buy more.

Two restaurant owners in Ottawa are fighting for the right to sell takeout alcohol again after being told they weren’t allowed because their restaurants are located inside grocery stores, even though they say they are not grocery stores.

A group of parents in Carleton Place, Ont., says the Upper Canada District School Board is failing to comply with a legal obligation to provide extended care for their kids after the sudden closure of a before and after school program at an elementary school.

Some experts say the rise in online shopping has driven the growth of liquidation stores in Ottawa where customers can hunt through bins to find overstock or returned items from major online retailers at low prices, while also increasing revenue for online sites like Amazon.

The sap is flowing this spring and maple syrup producers in eastern Ontario say after struggling through two years of the pandemic, the timing couldn’t be sweeter.

Recent wastewater data in Ottawa confirms what many suspected — the city is swimming in yet another wave of COVID-19 — but modelling suggests it won’t be as bad as the last one, experts say.

The Ottawa branch of the Ukrainian Women’s Association of Canada is hosting pysanka-making workshops to raise money for humanitarian relief efforts in Ukraine and to teach people about the significance of the tradition.

A daughter’s effort to bring her mother, brother and sister safely to Canada from Ukraine has mobilized other people in Carleton Place, Ont., to do what they can to help.

A rehab patient recovering from surgery at The Ottawa Hospital is worried about his recovery if the gymnasium he and fellow patients use for treatment is needed to house overflow patients.

An Ottawa-based company is trying to change the way households across the country dispose of food waste with innovative technology that speeds up the composting process to a matter of hours.