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Major League Soccer's board of governors has approved plans to expand by two teams by 2011, commissioner Don Garber announced Thursday.

People in Rockland are mopping up after what officials are calling a once-in-50-years deluge.

A police officer wants the City of Ottawa to levy small fines against drivers who forget to lock their car doors.

Residents of Ottawa's rural Gloucester area say they worry their drinking water could be contaminated by a new composting facility set to open this fall near Hawthorne and Rideau Roads.

A woman has lodged an accessibility complaint against Ottawa's public transit company after it barred her ferret - which her doctor likens to a guide dog - from the city's public buses.

The defence of Mohammad Momin Khawaja suffered a setback Thursday when the judge in his Ottawa terrorism trial decided hearsay evidence entered in the Crown's case against him will remain "in play" for now.

Ontario Provincial Police have used an emergency provision of the Criminal Code that circumvents the normal need for court approval of telephone wiretaps three times since 2002, a spokesman said.

The federal and Ontario governments have signed a deal that commits $6.2 billion for roads, bridges, broadband internet service and other infrastructure improvements in the province over the next six years.

A 46-year-old man was electrocuted by a 7,200-volt hydro line near Bancroft, Ont., after climbing a hydro pole Wednesday night.

Three children were sent to hospital with cuts Wednesday night when a rear side window of the car they were in was shattered by a rock thrown from an Ottawa overpass.

An OPP officer pretended to be a news reporter at a Mohawk protest that prompted the closure of a major rail line and Highway 401 in eastern Ontario during last year's Aboriginal Day of Action, CBC News has learned.

Ottawa bus drivers are vehemently against allowing pets on public transit, the union representing the drivers says.

A passenger train running along the Ottawa River between Pembroke and Ottawa would breathe new life into the region, an economic development group says.

The last surviving Canadian who served in the First World War was born in Sydenham, Ont., 108 years ago Wednesday.

The e-mail system at an Ottawa university was crippled this week by cyber criminals who tricked a user into providing access to a university e-mail account.