Nepean News

A 24-year-old aspiring rap artist who wears the colours of the Bloods street gang in music videos was gunned down outside a west-end home late Tuesday.

At least, it will be on Sunday, May 26 when dog owners are invited to take their four-legged friends to Andrew Haydon Park for Dollars for Dogs, a fundraiser in support of Canadian Guide Dogs for the Blind.

The trio of predatory birds, along with their pal, Elvis, were a hit with birdwatchers.

Hunt Club Road is closed between Merivale Road and Prince of Wales Drive due to a collision just before 10 p.m. Saturday, according to Ottawa police.

Just a couple of weeks after city council approved plans to construct the tallest building in Ottawa near the corner of Preston Street and Carling Avenue, Richcraft has filed papers to build two even taller towers practically next door.

'We wanted to reach out to young families and create a hub of activity,' Rabbi Menachem Blum says about the Ottawa Torah Centre, which breaks ground for construction on Sunday.

One woman was taken to hospital with serious injuries after a two-vehicle collision on Prince of Wales Drive Thursday afternoon involving a car carrying cryogenically stored blood samples.

The man suspected of kidnapping and raping three women held captive for years inside his Seymour Avenue will be in court on Thursday.

Young artists honoured at awards gala. Anna Bullock, a Grade 12 student at All Saints Catholic High School, displays her mixed-media work Patience Cradle, recipient of five awards at the 2013 Young at Art West ceremony at the Mlacak Centre on May 5. Blair Edwards/Metroland The Grade 12 All Saints Catholic High School student was put through the ... (more)

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An Ottawa developer is proposing to build two of what would be the city's tallest towers in Little Italy, a booming growth area for condominiums.

The City of Ottawa is implementing changes for which local advocates have long been clamouring by adding some new offerings to the local street meat menu, but those in the industry say more can be done to fully leverage food trucks as a means of attracting tourists.

Having already moved north of the border earlier this year, popular U.S. retailer Target is ramping up its plans for expanding into the National Capital Region.

Ottawa Police are asking for the public's help in locating a 49 year-old female reported missing from the Sandy Hill Area.

Unlike most muscle cars, the Buick Grand National isn't powered by a honkin' big V8 engine, but a V6.

Steve Creighton, , Glen Luckman, and Brent Wilson, of Dymon Storage seen between stacks of boxes on display at the Kanata location, Canada's largest indoor self-storage facility.

Ottawa considers building city's first ever reversible lane on Old Richmond Road.

The doors to Ben Franklin Place and Centrepointe Theatres will be open wide this weekend.

Ontario's minority Liberals have introduced a $127.6-billion budget that the government says ticks off every item on the NDP wish list.

Traffic congestion between Kanata South and Hwy 416 could be reduced by widening stretches of roads heavily used by rush-hour commuters, according to preliminary results of an environmental assessment study.