Shaamini Yogaretnam

Women and children made up more than half of Ottawa's slain in 2024, a year of record cases for the city's homicide detectives.

A 28-year-old man who was fatally gunned down outside Hampton Park Plaza early Friday evening was the groom whose wedding was destroyed by gunfire at Ottawa’s Infinity Convention Centre last summer, CBC News has learned.

The Ottawa Police Service's (OPS) return to a cruiser with an old-school look aims to make them more visible to the public, but at least one critic thinks the rebranding falls short of that goal.

The City of Ottawa is continuing a workplace harassment investigation into an alleged attack on the fire department’s first openly non-binary firefighter, even while there are active criminal charges laid in the case.

An Ottawa police officer who tried to breach the national police database to get information about his ailing 95-year-old father — in what was an attempt to see if the system was working — has pleaded guilty to misconduct.

Normally, the majority of homicide victims in Ottawa would be men. The fact so many victims in 2022 were women is a sign, in the words of one local advocate, of an ‘ongoing collective crisis.’

A community organizer who ran engagement sessions to help recruit the city’s police chief has been charged with forging a signature on a reference letter for another organization he founded.

An Ottawa police officer accused of sexually assaulting a rookie colleague in 2011 has been acquitted of any misconduct after a disciplinary hearing.

Seven people have applied to be the next chief of police in the nation’s capital, according to the chair of the Ottawa Police Services Board, who said the plans remain to hire a new chief before the end of this term of council.

A judges’ secretary was fired from her job and pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice after she looked at a wiretap warrant — only to find out her own fiancé was a target in a murder probe and their shared home had been bugged.