Small plane with 3 aboard crashes west of Ottawa airport | Recent collisions have councillor mulling ban on right turns at red lights | Here's what's opened and closed on Colonel By Day
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Small plane with 3 aboard crashes west of Ottawa airport; A small aircraft crashed down in Ottawa just west of the city's airport, on Riverside Drive, on Thursday evening\. A nearby resident shared this photo\.

Small plane with 3 aboard crashes west of Ottawa airport

July 31 , 2025 at 06:46:14 p.m. EDT • :

A small aircraft crashed down in Ottawa just west of the city's airport on Thursday evening.

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Recent collisions have councillor mulling ban on right turns at red lights; Councillor wants no right turns at red lights

Recent collisions have councillor mulling ban on right turns at red lights

July 31 , 2025 at 05:29:24 p.m. EDT • :

A recent string of vehicle collisions with pedestrians and cyclists, including a fatal incident in mid-July, has one Ottawa city councillor planning to ask the city to consider a ban on drivers turning right while facing a red light. 

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Here's what's opened and closed on Colonel By Day; A closed sign hangs in a store window in Ottawa,  Wednesday, May 6, 2020\. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld

Here's what's opened and closed on Colonel By Day

July 31 , 2025 at 11:08:22 a.m. EDT • :

Planning to get some errands done on Monday? Check out this list of what you can do — and what you can't.

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Akwesasne artist wins juried art show with salute to ironworkers; A man stands behind a broze statue with several men sitting on a steel beam\. There are nine iron workers sitting on a beam their heads are the nineHaudenosaunee clans\.

Akwesasne artist wins juried art show with salute to ironworkers

July 31 , 2025 at 04:10:33 p.m. EDT • :

An Akwesasne artist's sculpture celebrating Kanien'kehá:ka (Mohawk) ironworkers won the top prize at his community's juried art show and market last weekend. 

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Two drivers killed in head-on crash near Denbigh, Ont.; The Ontario Provincial Police are investigating a head-on collision in Denbigh, Ont\., which killed two men\.

Two drivers killed in head-on crash near Denbigh, Ont.

July 31 , 2025 at 10:52:47 a.m. EDT • :

Ontario Provincial Police said the crash happened on Highway 28 near Trout Lake Road just before 8 p.m. on Wednesday.

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Air quality warning for wildfire smoke lifted for Ottawa; Ottawa is seen as wildfire smoke descends on the city on July 14, 2025\.  

July 30 , 2025 at 05:30:13 p.m. EDT • :

Air quality warning for wildfire smoke lifted for Ottawa

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Tenants push back against 5-week eviction notice; Karelle Sikapi has been given five weeks' notice to vacate her apartment in a building in Little Italy that is being put up for sale\.  

July 30 , 2025 at 12:59:59 p.m. EDT • :

Tenants push back against 5-week eviction notice

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Ottawa's National Arts Centre cuts ties with controversial Chinese dance group; Members of the Shen Yun dance troupe perform at the Radio City Music Hall in New York on Feb\. 13, 2010\. The group has performed at Ottawa's National Arts Centre for years, but the centre confirmed that Shen Yun is not part of its 2026 programming\.  

July 29 , 2025 at 04:00:00 a.m. EDT • :

Ottawa's National Arts Centre cuts ties with controversial Chinese dance group

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Kingston Police warn of alleged driveway paving scam; On Tuesday, Kingston Police officer were called to a home where someone in a white pickup truck greeted officers from afar with an Irish accent before summoning a colleague to the truck and fleeing\.  

July 30 , 2025 at 06:00:02 p.m. EDT • :

Kingston Police warn of alleged driveway paving scam

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Police recover body of Pontiac man who drowned after attempting a rescue; On Tuesday, MRC des Collines-de-l'Outaouais police said divers found the body of a man who jumped into the Ottawa River to rescue a woman in distress\.  

July 30 , 2025 at 10:27:33 a.m. EDT • :

Police recover body of Pontiac man who drowned after attempting a rescue

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