By Meghan Hurley, Ottawa Citizen, January 10, 2014
OTTAWA — Environment Canada has issued a freezing rain warning for Ottawa.
The warning issued shortly before 11 a.m. said freezing rain associated with a warm front will move in from the south by Friday night, but should end overnight.
By CBC News Ottawa, January 9, 2014
A federal agency has ordered the City of Ottawa to assess the safety of all railway crossings where OC Transpo buses and trains could come into contact.
The directive comes from Employment and Social Development Canada. The order is part of the investigation into last September\'s fatal collision between a double-decker OC Transpo bus and a VIA Train in Barrhaven.
By Kelly Egan, Ottawa Citizen, January 9, 2014
In late December, the afternoon her infant grandchildren came over, Joyce Stephens, 56 — just as she had feared — finally ran out of propane for the furnace.
The house, on the banks of the Mississippi River in Carleton Place, started to cool. It would soon be down to 12 degrees.
By David Reevely, Ottawa Citizen, January 9, 2014
OTTAWA — Four rounds of salting and sanding have cleared most of the ice off Ottawa’s busiest sidewalks but many side streets are still practically impassable on foot, the city’s snow-clearing boss admits.
“I don’t think we’ve had this kind of ice since the ice storm of ’98,” Kevin Wylie said Thursday. Repeated attacks by salters and sanders haven’t been able to accomplish very much against the thick layer of ice that built up in Monday’s flash freeze, which followed hours of freezing rain and then melting. The water pooled on the sidewalks, unable to drain into sewer grates that were often still sealed by unmelted snow, then it all froze up.
By Blair Crawford, Ottawa Citizen, January 9, 2014
OTTAWA — Promises of a spectacular display of the northern lights over Ottawa were dashed Thursday night when the solar storm predicted by scientists ended up being much weaker than anticipated.
The good news for Ottawa stargazers: a complete cloud cover rolled in by about 9 p.m. that would have made any sky show invisible anyway.
By David Reevely, Ottawa Citizen, January 9, 2014
OTTAWA — Ottawa’s indifference to widening Hwy. 174 is frustrating the mayors whose municipalities east of the city depend on easy passage in and out of the city.
“We feel as if we’re being left out,” said Jean Paul St. Pierre, the mayor of Russell township and warden of the United Counties of Prescott and Russell. “I guess we wonder what’s happening in the west of the city, when you see a four-lane highway going west of the city to Carleton Place, north of the city, when you see a four-lane highway to Arnprior, and we’re making do with a two-lane rural road that’s not even in great shape.”
By Joanne Schnurr, CTV News Ottawa, January 8, 2014
It\'s a winter recipe we drivers all hate. Take some asphalt; add a little ice, some rain and some more ice and you\'ve got potholes. They are popping up all over Ottawa and the region, faster than pimples on a teenager. Prince of Wales Drive in the south end of Ottawa looks a little like a slice of Swiss cheese these days. Further up the road at Hunt Club and Greenback, motorist Gord Smith tweeted about a pothole saying, “It looks like it\'s about to swallow up the earth. That\'s not a pothole,” says Smith, “that\'s a fissure.”
Call it what you want; what it is, is costly.
By CBC News Ottawa, January 8, 2014
Nearly half the organic fresh fruits and vegetables tested across Canada in the past two years contained pesticide residue, according to a CBC News analysis of data supplied by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA).
Of the 45.8 per cent of samples that tested positive for some trace of pesticide, a smaller amount — 1.8 per cent — violated Canada’s maximum allowable limits for the presence of pesticides, the data shows.
By Sarah Anderson, CFRA News, January 7, 2014
Changes are coming to the PRESTO website and that\'s going to mean disruptions for anyone usually loads their card online.
Since January 5th customers have been unable to buy cards online or order a replacement card.
From Friday until Sunday customers will be unable to access their accounts online, load a card, set up autoload or contact Metrolinx through the online form.
By David Reevely, Ottawa Citizen, January 7, 2014
OTTAWA — A block of Laurier Avenue that had been closed after a major water-main break on Monday afternoon reopened to motor traffic in time for the evening rush-hour on Tuesday.
Crews worked overnight to fix the pipes that burst but getting the road back in shape took several hours more.