Nepean News

Firefighters battle a blaze at Nepean Windows & Patio Rooms Ltd., 81 Auriga Drive on Wednesday, December 9, 2009 in Ottawa.

Todd Davies removes some snow from his driveway on MacFarlane Road Wednesday in Ottawa.

Here is the most up-to-date list of cancellations reported this Wednesday morning: ALL school bus service for the English Catholic and Public Schools and French Catholic and Public Schools operating within the City of Ottawa are cancelled.

Ottawa police are asking for the public's help in identifying two suspects in connection to a bank robbery in the west end of the city.

The city knows of Club Madellyn Jae, but finds nothing wrong with it. In fact, the city says it inspected the premise a year after it was denied a body-rub licence.

OTTAWA a ' A 34-year-old man who used a taxi as a getaway car in a bank robbery is facing more charges.

In the city of Ottawa, there are 28 body rub parlours. Twenty-seven of them have licences.

The 28-year-old son of a former high tech executive has pleaded guilty to assault causing bodily harm, for grabbing his mother by the neck, smashing her head on the floor, covering her nose and mouth to prevent her from breathing and throwing her down a flight of stairs.

A 30-year-old woman was killed Wednesda morning in this collision on Roger Stevens Drive, east of Kars.

A robbery victim was able to flag down a passing patrol officer moments after he was robbed at knife-point in the west end Saturday night.

OTTAWA a ' A Barrhaven drug store is holding a fundraiser Saturday to help out a postal worker whose house burned down only days after she was stabbed outside of the pharmacy by her former boyfriend.

Night and weekend bus service in Ottawa could be reduced and fares raised under a proposal aimed at keeping next year's property tax hike under four per cent.

An eight-month investigation into cocaine and Oxycodone trafficking has ended with seven people facing a combined 65 charges.

A robbery suspect fled a Barrhaven bank in a taxi before being arrested at the downtown Ottawa bus terminal Wednesday.

Kevin O'Leary is a real son of a bitch. You may know that from watching CBC's Dragons' Den or ABC's Shark Tank where he routinely, by times gleefully, eviscerates baby entrepreneurs who don't pass his muster.

A 17-year-old girl with a G2 licence is accused of racing a 46-year-old man on the Queensway near Woodroffe Ave.

All Ottawa residents can roll up their sleeve and receive the H1N1 flu shot. Three weeks after the H1N1 clinics initially opened to priority groups, Ottawa Public Health has announced the general public can receive the shot.

About 40 people lined up Thursday morning at the Tom Brown Arena, the first day that the city's H1N1 vaccination clinics were open to the general public.

Canada's largest real estate investment trust says it expects to acquire an additional 894,000-square-foot interest on eight properties in Alberta, Manitoba and Ontario worth a total of $170 million, including two Ottawa retail plazas.

Thirteen of the huskies were welcomed in Ottawa on Thursday afternoon. Dog lovers in the Ottawa area are opening their hearts and homes to some of the 100 starving huskies turned over to an emergency shelter in Quebec's Laurentian region earlier in November.