A midtown city councillor has launched an effort to reverse what he sees as the deterioration of Toronto's streetscape into "a filthy, ugly place" by doing a better job of selecting and maintaining street infrastructure, such as bike lane markers, trash cans and benches.

A rat infestation is plaguing residents in a south Etobicoke neighbourhood. And they're blaming an impromptu garbage dump set up by residents of a nearby homeless encampment in Mimicos Coronation Park for their new furry neighbours though a pest control expert and their local councillor say a nearby excavation site is likely contributing to the problem.

A Toronto Community Housing (TCHC) resident is speaking out after the social housing agency lowered the ceiling in part of his apartment to less than seven feet well below the citys regulatory standard.

Residents in a busy downtown neighbourhood say they've been struggling to have a popular parkette cleaned up but no one seems to be taking responsibility for its upkeep.

Residents in a flood-plagued north end Toronto neighbourhood say they've been waiting more than a decade for the city to make good on a plan to fix the problem.

A suburban city councillor is calling for an overhaul of the minimum requirements for visitor parking at new housing developments, saying the current minimums are so low they could have a negative impact on families and seniors.

Almost 100 years ago, placid Balsam Lake, in the heart of the Kawarthas, was the scene of one of the worst pleasure craft disasters in provincial history: 11 boys and young men drowned when their oversized canoe capsized, in the dark waters, far from shore.