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Ridgetown’s Chris von Martels was named an alternate for Canada’s Olympic dressage team Friday.

A Kelowna fraudster who stole hundreds of thousands of government dollars in the name of vulnerable Indigenous youth will be fully paroled by the middle of July.

Police are expected to remain at the scene for the several hours into Friday afternoon, and drivers should avoid the area.

A convict who escaped an Edmonton correctional service more than a month ago has been caught.

When Jana White and a few dozen other people disappointed in their local hospital organization arrived at the Best Western Plus parking lot in Walkerton to protest on June 26, a police officer greeted them and asked them to vacate the area. White said the Save the Durham Hospital committee protestors made it a few […]

The Brantford-Brant jobless rate saw its largest month-over-month increase in more than a year, but other data suggests the swing isn’t as dramatic as it first appears.   The Brantford area unemployment rate climbed by 0.8 percentage points in June to 5.7 per cent, according to Statistics Canada estimates, which are seasonally adjusted and are […]

For the first time in its 143-year history, there’s a woman in charge at the Smiths Falls Police Service.  The town announced this week Deputy Chief Jodi Empey, who has worked in the police service for the last 30 years, was officially appointed its new chief of police on July 3.   Empey has been […]

Homicide investigators have released a video showing a man who police say is a person of interest in the murder of an 18-year-old in Maple Ridge, B.C.

The local medical community is teaming up to launch a new primary care clinic Saturday to serve patients with no family doctor or nurse practitioner.

Liberal MP Anthony Housefather says he is ‘looking forward to making a real difference’ as the government’s new special adviser on Jewish community relations and antisemitism.