An Ottawa teacher has been sent home after he was accused of cutting the hair of a seven-year-old student with autism at school without permission from the boy's mother.

Lawyers say Const. Daniel Montsion's failure to appear at his bail hearing Monday on charges including manslaughter in the death of Abdirahman Abdi is extremely rare.

The City of Ottawa is offering some prime spots to would-be urban campers on Canada Day weekend but they don't come cheap.

Former Ottawa financial adviser Jacques Scribnock has been sentenced to seven years in prison for defrauding 19 investors, many of them close friends, of $2.8 million.

An Ottawa pharmacy is reporting a big run on naloxone kits following reports this week of drug overdoses among teenagers in Kanata.

About 200 parents attended a meeting in Kanata Thursday night looking not just for support, but for ways to keep their drug-addicted teens alive.

The Special Investigations Unit usually stays out of the spotlight, conducting its investigations away from the public eye. But on Wednesday night in Ottawa, Ontario's police watchdog made an exception and accepted an invitation to speak publicly.