This Bur Oak, located on a private property in the Annex, is a giant among giants. With a diameter of 1.8 metres and a circumference of 5.8 metres, its massive trunk holds a web of limbs that curve symmetrically and conically to support a canopy over 35 metres high, covering 8 backyards. The tree is between 350 and 400 years old and is by far the oldest in the city. In 1834, when the Town of ...

Seeing the looks on children's faces when they receive Star Santa Fund gift boxes at their homes makes all the effort involved in helping out worthwhile, says teen volunteer Grainne Heaney.

There are no cheering crowds at the pool at 5:30 a.m. Sixteen-year-old competitive swimmer Amanda Reason is there, focused on being her best as she glides into the water.

By one estimate, Toronto is the third most vulnerable city in North America in its potential exposure to diseases that spread around the globe. It's at Pearson airport that those diseases arrive.

Cullen Johnson was a top Toronto cop. Elaine White was a dogged investigator at a downtown accounting firm. Now the husband and wife team of private detectives are accused of forging and selling bank records that make clients believe an ex-spouse, friend or employee has millions of dollars stashed offshore.

When it comes to getting an H1N1 shot, it's still a matter of where you live and who you are.

So, that's what it feels like to win, to shed the image of Loserville, to take on sporting challengers as a city and emerge victorious.

An OPP helicopter sweep of two Toronto parks Friday failed to turn up new leads in the search for Mariam Makhniashvili.

A big hole in a downtown sidewalk has been covered with planks for so long that they've blended into the streetscape.

The TTC is launching an experiment later this month to try to relieve the crowding and train delays at Bloor, the system's most notorious bottleneck, where about 200,000 people jockey for elbow room every day.

First the silence, then the cheers: Even victory party emcee Marnie McBean was among Toronto backers caught by surprise at early win and first ballot victory.

The majority of charges laid in connection with a deadly Muskoka car crash in the summer of 2008 that claimed the lives of three men have been dropped.

It started with cocktails in an Annex backyard, in a city desperate to shed its loser label, and now Toronto has been awarded the 2015 Pan Am Games.

A proffered handshake, declined, is too boorish for words. I know. It's happened to me often enough in Afghanistan.

Toronto has been voted host of the 2015 Pan Am Games in a first-ballot win Friday.

Toronto has been voted host of the 2015 Pan Am Games on a first-ballot vote Friday.

Toronto police are using an OPP helicopter to search two parks for new leads in the case of missing teen Mariam Makhniashvili.

Toronto police are conducting another helicopter search of Earl Bales Park and nearby Sherwood Park for missing teen Mariam Makhniashvili.

Mexico's Mario Vazquez Rana has been leading the Pan Am Games organization for 35 years, and in today's vote, no one will be more influential.

Mexico's Mario Vazquez Rana has been leading the Pan Am Games organization for 35 years, and in Friday's vote, no one will be more influential.