Coun. Jeff Leiper chaired Wednesday's meeting of Ottawa's planning and housing committee. (Giacomo Panico/CBC) He said the vote isn't a rebuke of city staff, but a "political decision" to ...

Emma Weller is a reporter for CBC Ottawa and she's also worked with CBC's Your World Tonight. She can be reached at [email protected].

Clara Freire is the City of Ottawa's general manager of community and social services. (Elyse Skura/CBC) "We can't do the procurement, the initial design and all of the construction work in an ...

No charges have been laid following an altercation in Ottawa involving the grand chief of an organization that represents First Nations in southern Manitoba, a police spokesperson says. Southern ...

Kaite Burkholder Harris is the director of The Alliance to End Homelessness Ottawa. (Kate Porter/CBC) Kaite Burkholder Harris of the Alliance to End Homelessness Ottawa said she understands the ...

Atlético Ottawa has turned to a former player and coach in Mexico's top soccer league to be their new head coach. The Canadian Premier League club announced Thursday 41-year-old Diego Mejía ...

Ottawa police are investigating what happened ... "Whoever did this left a two-year-old baby without a father," Nally Catala told CBC on Monday. Catala was Sabarros's partner for seven years.

In December, Ottawa announced a plan to redistribute 27 per cent of the total Maritime catch of about 10,000 kilograms of baby eels — known as elvers — from nine commercial licence holders to ...

In an expansion of local and regional news to better serve more Canadians, CBC News today announced that it will hire up to 30 new permanent journalists in 22 communities across the country ...

Embattled Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass is once again at the center of controversy after social media photos showed that she was at a cocktail party in Ghana as the Palisades Fire exploded.

Isabel Harder is an associate producer and reporter for CBC Ottawa. You can reach her by email at [email protected].

Kate Porter covers municipal affairs for CBC Ottawa. Over the past two decades, she has also produced in-depth reports for radio, web and TV, regularly presented the radio news, and covered the ...