Scarborough News

Thousands of homes in Scarborough were kept in the dark for hours Monday night after a problem with some overhead wires caused a widespread power outage.

Chandra's Takeout Restaurant and Catering at 201 Markham Rd., seen in this image from Google's Street View, was fined $20,000 for health violations.

It was a Scorpio birthday bash, a celebration of life for half a dozen men born under the sign of the scorpion.

Peter Cheney Published on Friday, Nov. 20, 2009 10:19PM EST Last updated on Friday, Nov.

Chicken, plantains and fish fritters. Aefa Mulholland Whether you want your menu to match summer's sizzling temperatures or to keep you toasty during winter months, deliciously diverse Toronto has a smorgasbord of spicy, southern flavours at the ready.

The first report card is out on the two-year-old program that puts police officers in Toronto high schools, and it seems to be getting high praise.

Crowds of after-work commuters are herded by police and TTC officials onto buses at the corner of Bloor and Yonge Streets in Toronto Wednesday, Nov.

A Scarborough street is shut down as the Special Investigations Unit investigates a high-speed police chase that ended when a vehicle crashed into a tree early Sunday.

Investigators were at Forest Hill Collegiate Institute talking to students yesterday as they continued to think "outside the box" in an attempt to solve the bizarre two-month-old disappearance of Mariam Makhniashvili.

The commanding gateway to Chinatown East , a memorial to early Chinese railway workers.

Sandeep Kaur calls the volume that holds her 30-page collection of wedding photos a book of lies.

Mention Colombia and hearty home cooking might not be the first thing that comes to mind.

A dead Brampton mana s stolen car was recovered Thursday in the Jane Street/Finch Avenue area of Toronto and is now undergoing a oeextensive forensic examinationa in the hunt for his killers.

Mariam Makniashvilli was last seen on Sept. 14. Toronto police are searching a garbage transfer station for clues about the disappearance of Mariam Makniashvilli.

Two elderly Toronto veterans chased down and tackled a man who tried to steal the proceeds from the sale of Remembrance Day poppies.

Small businesses in Toronto are up in arms about comments by Shelley Carroll, the city's budget chief and councillor for Don Valley East, that a new municipal sales tax be put up for discussion as a means of saving Toronto from its growing financial troubles.

A TTC bus driver who stopped and reported a violent street altercation in Scarborough was blinded by a gunman seconds after phoning for help, a jury heard yesterday.

The mother of a murdered Don Jail inmate contends his slaying was a case of a known drug addict who was poorly handled in detention.

If there are tears in Murray Marshall's eyes at today's funeral service, they represent more than a father's natural sorrow over the loss of his son.

When a migrant smuggling ship bound for Australia was seized in Indonesian waters last month, a 27-year-old with a thick beard stepped forward to speak for the boat people.