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ROEBUCK — More than 75 riders are taking to the hills in the fourth annual Eastern Ontario High School Mountain Bike Championships near here Friday. Students from Brockville, Prescott, Kingston, Gananoque, Ottawa and Bancroft schools will be competing in a unique course which zigzags through Limerick Forest. Riders from [...]

KEMPTVILLE — Trustees of the Upper Canada District School Board voted in favour of closing 13 schools and transferring grades 7 and 8 students into the region’s public high schools as early as Sept. 2009 after a heated debate here last night. The trustees voted 8-3 for the Boundary [...]

An alleged sexual assault on the Brock Trail on Sunday, May 4 didn't take place, Brockville Police have determined. "The investigation has concluded the sexual assault never occurred," Deputy Chief Adrian Geraghty told The Recorder and Times this morning. "We do have an investigation continuing into (the complainant's) [...]

A report citing racial profiling as the cause of two attacks on Asian-Canadian fishermen here last year is being disputed by the village mayor. Bill Thake says the findings of a Human Rights Commission report released Tuesday afternoon shouldn't prejudge the village based on two OPP investigations that haven't [...]

A new season always brings hope and promise. The Brockville Ontario Speedway has that feeling for its season-opening racing here on Saturday at 7 p.m. and with good reason. An improved track that should make for exciting racing for the drivers and the fans, plus an exciting, deep [...]

Cornwall taxi companies have asked Cornwall Police Services Board to approve a fare increase. It's hard to think of a logical argument the board could make against granting the increase.

Hospice Cornwall needs $812,500 to reach its fundraising goal as the project team prepares to put shovels in the ground this summer.

Four years ago up-and-coming local singer, Justine Butkovich, was preparing for her vocal audition at the University of Toronto.

A criminal probe into allegations a retired Cornwall police chief obstructed his son's sexual abuse investigation was designed to exonerate the man, a lawyer at the Cornwall Public Inquiry put to the city officer who headed the probe.

A hydro pole fire near a golf course put the lights out at four schools in South Glengarry.

There will be no public inquiry into Robert Baltovich’s wrongful conviction in the 1990 murder of Elizabeth Bain, Attorney General Chris Bentley said this morning.

Ditching the car in favour of public transit may not be enough to shield commuters from rising fuel costs. Confronted with galloping diesel prices, TTC officials aren't ruling out the possibility of adding a fuel surcharge to the price of a ride next year.

The troubled east-end nursing home where two elderly residents accidentally died has had new admissions suspended for a month after Ministry of Health investigators cited it for numerous care violations.

Police are looking for three men after a real estate agent was bound and robbed in the city's northeast end yesterday.

Columns like Looking Back are a little bit like Trivial Pursuit. You learn all kinds of odd things about the city.

Officials in Toronto are hoping humour will have tourists laughing and flocking to the city after naming comedian Russell Peters as the city's first new global ambassador for tourism.

OPP will be in the air, on the ground and on the water this weekend, watching for aggressive drivers and those who drink and drive motorized vehicles.

The body of a man has been discovered at the side of a road in Caledon, Ont., northwest of Toronto.

The Ontario government will soon pay for sex-change operations again, Health Minister George Smitherman has confirmed.

Canada's National Ballet School and the Université de Montréal's expansion of its Outremont campus have won urban design awards from the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada.

TORONTO - Ontario's attorney general says there will be no public inquiry into the case of Robert Baltovitch. Baltovitch was acquitted in April of the 1990 murder of his girlfriend Elizabeth Bain, after the Crown effectively said there was no case. [...]

CALEDON - The body of a man has been discovered on the side of a road in Caledon, northwest of Toronto. Provincial police say the body was spotted in a ditch (on Old School Rd.) by a passerby on Thursday at about 5:30 [...]

BEICHUAN, China - A strong aftershock sparked landslides Friday near the epicentre of this week's powerful earthquake, while some survivors were pulled from rubble after being buried for four days. Meanwhile, the official death toll in the quake was raised to 22,069 on Friday, although [...]

The were will be a sod turning for two long-awaited projects in Barrie today. First, the ground was broken this morning for Hospice Simcoe's new facility on Aconley Court, at the corner of Georgian Drive and Penetanguishene Road. Hospice House is scheduled to open in April 2009. The [...]

It's time to re-think the strategy of our governments giving millions of taxpayers' dollars to large corporations. Especially to companies which are in dire financial or business straits because of their own greed or incompetence. And, especially if they are multi-national automakers which have just laid off [...]