Oakville News

Gallery going An elegy to those 'dark, satanic mills' Gordon Andersona s enormous paintings of abandoned steel mills near Cleveland evoke the kind of dangerous sublimity that once animated the mills .

Low mortgage rates and more affordable homes in many markets are pushing first-time home buyers to enter the market in droves, Canadian real-estate experts say.

Two Canadians will vie for new bachelor Jake Pavelka will choose among 25 contestants, including two Canadians, on the next season of The Bachelor.

Above at the official opening of the new Oakville Literacy Council offices are Bernie Martenson, President of the Oakville Literacy Council, Kevin Flynn, Oakville?MPP and Gayle Wadden, a volunteer with the Ontario Trillium Foundation.

A construction worker was killed Tuesday afternoon after a large slab of concrete fell on him while he was working on a bridge in Oakville, Ont.

Fourteen-year-old Riley Cholod of Bowmanville, Ont., used a new move for the first time in competition to help propel her to the women's junior all around title on Saturday at the Elite Canada women's gymnastics meet .

Statistics Canada says housing prices were on the rise in October. People walk past new homes that are for sale in Oakville, Ont.

Metro Moncton can expect an ideal weekend for this time of year, featuring sunny skies, no precipitation and cooler, near-normal temperatures.

BY BOB ENGLISH Published on Wednesday, Dec. 09, 2009 4:51PM EST Last updated on Thursday, Dec.

A growing number are finding themselves with multiple pink slips. It can shake confidence and hamper another job search MARJO JOHNE 00:00 EST Wednesday, December 09, 2009 After Denis Levesque was laid off in November, 2007, from his job at an Ottawa technology company, he was relieved to quickly land a management position with telecommunications ...

Jeff Zabudsky is stepping down as president and CEO of Red River College, the college announced this morning.

Hopefully, you know your ABC's. But as a driver, how familiar are you with the automobile safety feature alphabet? You know, features with acronyms such as ABS, ESC, RSC, TC and TPMS? A highway rollover due to icy roads near Regina.

Economy Stimulus means business: Companies are finally hiring again Job seekers line-up at various booths at the National Job Fair and Training Expo in the Toronto Metro Convention Centre.

Oakville-based ASL Distribution Services Limited has acquired the assets of Professional Distribution Services , a division of Drive Products Income Fund.

Ontario has passed Bill 179, which clears the way for the use of prescription drug kiosks.

MADD estimated that about 1,350 Canadians were killed in motor vehicle accidents involving impaired drivers in 2006.

The Cape Breton Post "We've travelled 20,000 kilometres in the last two months," performer and director Erik Graumans says.

Dwayne Drover, who grew up in Lourdes, is the individual category world champion of the Scott Firefighter Combat Challenge held in Las Vegas last week.

Bennett Environmental Inc shares rose to a year high on Friday after the company announced a big increase in the size of its contract to clean PCB-laden soil in southern Ontario.

Is Metro Moncton enjoying the benefits of an extended Indian summer? Over the past three weeks, southeastern New Brunswick has basked under unseasonably warm temperatures and mostly clear skies with not even a hint of snow.