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.

The Ottawa Police Services Board has approved a controversial contract with volunteer members of the city force’s own community equity council — heralding it as the first community engagement process for the board that will be facilitated by racialized leaders.

The Ottawa Police Services Board has approved a controversial contract with volunteer members of the city force’s own community equity council — heralding it as the first community engagement process for the board that will be facilitated by racialized leaders.

The Ottawa Police Services Board is set to consider a proposal to hire members of the force’s own community equity council — a group intended to mend police relationships with marginalized groups — to help hire a new police chief.

Marie Gabriel was trapped in a violent relationship with an older man who controlled her every movement — from where she worked, to whom she spoke, and when she left the house, according to her family and friends.

An Ottawa police detective who opposed the force's COVID-19 mandates is under investigation for allegedly trying to find out if parents whose infants had suddenly died during the pandemic were vaccinated, CBC News has learned.

Russell McLellan is one of five missing employees who are presumed dead after an explosion at Eastway Tank on Merivale Road last week. A sixth employee was taken to hospital after the blast, where he succumbed to his injuries. A seventh remains in hospital at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto.

Six employees from what began as an Ottawa-area family business more than 50 years ago are presumed dead in a catastrophic explosion and fire that witnesses likened to an earthquake. Here’s what we know about the business.

A 16-year-old boy who was the eyewitness to a homicide this summer and ultimately identified the alleged shooter was himself shot dead Monday morning, CBC News has learned.

An Ottawa man who shot and killed two of his childhood friends and injured a third in 2017 has been convicted of two counts of second-degree murder and one count of attempted murder.

An Ottawa police officer charged in the force’s “ghost warning” scandal began his police disciplinary hearing Tuesday, more than four and a half years after he was first charged with misconduct.