If you feel like you've been shooing, swatting andscratching more often this spring, you aren't crazy. According to one expert, the Ottawa area has seen the perfect conditions for an absolute onslaught ofmosquitoes.

The Greenboro park-and-ride in Ottawa's south end was full of hopeful job applicants Saturday, all vying for an opportunity to work for the city's transit provider as it deals with morale issues and recruitment challenges.

A family from Gatineau, Que., is reeling after being told they will be discharged from their family doctor in Ottawa.

Thousands of dollars have been raised to help residents of aneast-end Ottawa highrisehit by two fires in two daysearlier this month.

Twenty-five members of Ottawa's wildland firefighting crews have completed a special training program that certifies them to fight forest fires in an urban setting.

Sunday's march and rally took place ahead of intergovernmental talks being held this week in Ottawa, intended to come up with a legally binding agreement on plastic pollution.

The sights and sounds of spring are arriving early this year thanks to record high temperatures. Nature experts sayeven some animals are fooled.