Ottawa police closed Woodbridge Crescent in the city's west end Thursday afternoon after a pedestrian was hit by a car and sent to hospital with life-threatening injuries.

Plans to build a roundabout at one of the busiest intersections in Ottawa's east end are being questioned by a local traffic expert.

Ontario residents should expect to pay for more health-care services and endure longer lineups if the Liberal government follows through on its threat to freeze funding for hospitals next year, critics said Thursday.

A retired city clerk is asking the City of Ottawa and its auditor-general for an apology, after a report last month suggested the city had thrown him a lavish party the same week he retired.

A frostbite alert is in effect as Ottawa residents brave wind chills that make it feel like -30 over the next few days.

A Canada-wide assessment of 15,000 public buildings for a radioactive gas linked to higher lung cancer rates is about a third complete, according to the director of Health Canada's inspection team.

The federal government is selling off its commercial Candu reactor division, Natural Resources Minister Lisa Raitt says.

Proposed changes to family law in Ontario are a good first step, but some experts question how far they can go without new funding.

Two Ontario Provincial Police officers should have been commended, not investigated, says the woman whose domestic violence complaint eventually led to disciplinary charges against the officers.

The number of inmates who died of unnatural causes in Canadian prisons increased 70 per cent this year, according to new figures obtained by CBC News.

The National Gallery of Canada will be sending some of its art westward as part of a deal with the Art Gallery of Alberta, organizers announced in Edmonton on Wednesday.

Alexandre Picard's late first-period goal stood up as the winner and Senators goalie Brian Elliott made 22 saves to beat Ryan Miller and the Buffalo Sabres 2-0 on Wednesday night in Ottawa.

Ottawa mayor Larry O'Brien says he would consider locking out the city's transit workers during future labour negotiations - comments that aren't sitting well with union leaders and his potential rivals in the 2010 mayoral race.

On the three-month anniversary of his daughter's death, the father of an Ottawa cyclist killed in September is urging the city to improve safety for cyclists on Sussex Drive.

Ontario will announce changes Thursday to the way it deals with family law to make the divorce process faster, less expensive and less combative.

The Ontario government is making changes at the highest levels of eHealth Ontario, the beleaguered agency tasked with digitizing the province's medical records.

The city of Ottawa's transit committee has approved a plan to build a tunnel under the downtown core as part of the city's proposed light rail transit system.

Thirty-nine Quebec women with breast cancer did not receive the right treatment because of erroneous pathology hormone marker tests, the province's Health Ministry has confirmed.

Educators and actors are entertaining and informing visitors at the Canadian Museum of Civilization and the Canadian War Museum for the first time in 12 weeks.

An MRI on Tuesday night determined that Ottawa Senators centre Jason Spezza has a torn ligament in his right knee that will keep him out of the lineup for six to eight weeks.