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A VIA Rail employee climbs aboard an F40 locomotive at the train station in Ottawa on Monday, December 3, 2012.

As our regular 680News.com series continues, we look at events happening in Toronto and near the city for a variety of ages and interests.

A couple is in serious, but stable, condition in hospital after a dramatic rescue from a three-alarm house fire near York Mills Road and Bayview Avenue in Toronto overnight.

This Week in Fashion rounds up the week's style news, store openings and closings, pop-up shops, sales and upcoming fashion and design events in Toronto.

Books: Got writer's block? Need help bringing dimension to your stories and characters? Writing with Feeling is a workshop you won't want to miss.

"The adrenalin that you feel is astronomical," says Toronto police Det. Rob North, who was shot with a rented gun while responding to a call of a Beer Store holdup in the city's west end in January 2009.

Algoma U's honorary degree recipient is Giller Prize-winning author Joseph Boyden to be recognized at June convocation SAULT STE.

A man showed up at a Toronto hospital claiming he was wounded in a drive-by shooting, but police soon concluded that he was suffering from a self-inflicted wound.

When graphic and web designer Andy Stanleigh bought a house in Oakville, Ont. last summer, he learned the value of having a real estate lawyer on call.

Toronto , Canada appears to have a few flurries in the forecast, even during the spring months.

A giant moustache, a solid-wood rocking chair, and a colourful checkers table are all lying abandoned on a Toronto street near you.

Last weekend's Jane's Walk featured many worthy destinations, but I was compelled to join the walk in Mount Dennis , focused on the Eglinton LRT line that will have its west end terminus there, once the two massive tunnel boring machines being built there finally emerge at the eastern end of this massive - and long overdue - project.

Ruth Bonneville / Winnipeg Free Press Hart Mallin says Northwest is the perfect buyer for 755 Portage Ave., since it has developed an expertise in managing health-care facilities.

Running late for a doctor's appointment, Jennifer Green and her young daughter waited at a green light for a Walk signal that never came.

Happy Mother's Day to all the fabulous mothers. If this is news to you, hop to it and do something special for Mom! A spa day often makes a winning gift.

Police are once again investigating a shooting at Toronto's Yorkdale Shopping Mall, the second in less than two months.

Outdoors: Meagan's Walk is returning again for a twelfth year to raise money to find a cure for paediatric brain tumours.

Details of the huge, six-tower cluster proposed for 1 Yonge Street are starting become a little clearer.

It's that time of the year again, when weekend events take over Toronto, leading to road closures across the city.

At times, it seems like the idea of expanding public transit in Toronto is going nowhere fast.