East York News

Lawyers for the City of Toronto were in court Saturday, seeking an injunction to stop pickets from blocking a pest control company that has been spraying garbage at the Christie Pits temporary dump site.

Toronto Mayor David Miller said a oesome progressa has been made in negotiations with union representatives to end the 12-day garbage strike in Canadaa s biggest city.

Everybody got what they wanted out of today's special meeting of Toronto City Council.

Light rail transit may change the face of the GTA and create a new, transit-friendly culture, but that doesn't mean everyone wants it running through their back yard.

A high-wire act by an adventurous raccoon has given residents in an east-end Toronto neighbourhood a tail to watch.

With summer officially here, a number of new businesses are clamoring to open while the weather is good.

Brodie Fenlon Toronto - Thursday, Jun. 25, 2009 03:14PM EDT N ineteen Toronto public parks and parking lots will be turned into dumps for the duration of the municipal workers strike, a move that has angered residents living near the temporary landfills.

Eden Valley Drive lives up to its name, especially this week. The serpentine street near Islington Avenue and Eglinton Avenue West, developed in 1975, features fat brick homes on verdant lots.

Last Father's Day, Shayne Berwick suffered such severe trauma in a car crash he could barely recognize his dad, Colin.

The City of Toronto has issued contingency plans to let residents know what services will be affected by the strike by the Canadian Union of Public Employees Local 79 and the Toronto Civic Employees' Union Local 416 .

Patricia Huculak, who lives at the YWCA shelter on Pape Ave., says the YWCA is turning a blind eye to harassment, abuse and criminal activity in their own building.

Kim Krueckl is looking for people to write their responses to 'If I was Mayor I would .

Linking Buffalo, New York with Toronto, the Queen Elizabeth Way was officially opened and dedicated 70 years ago this month.

A 23-year-old man is in custody after reportedly confessing to a priest that he had killed a man in his 70s in a west-end Toronto apartment.

As many as four people have been stabbed at a Mississauga school this morning. St. Joseph's Secondary School, near Creditview Rd.

A man in his 70s was found dead in a Toronto apartment yesterday after a man allegedly confessed to his killing at a downtown homeless shelter.

A mother was taking her child out of her car at a Costco parking near Toronto, Ont., when an assailant took the car and child, Tuesday, June 16, 2009.

Toronto police are searching for suspects after a serious stabbing at a strip plaza in the city's east-end. Police told 680News officers responded to a call at 31-60 Eglinton Avenue East, near Markham Road, just after 11 a.m. A 19-year-old man was taken to hospital with life-threatening wounds.

A man charged with cruelty to animals while walking a neighbour's dog shouldn't have been allowed to walk the dog in the first place, residents at his apartment building said yesterday.

June 12, 2009 11:43 AM - A Mississauga teen is among three people charged in a string of convenience store robberies in Toronto over the past month.