Ontario News

WHEATLEY, Ont. — Ontario's minister of natural resources and forestry says the province is putting an additional $11 million toward ongoing costs of a 2021 explosion in Wheatley, Ont., that levelled a building and injured 20 people.

MISSISSAUGA, Ont. — Police in Mississauga, Ont., say a cyclist was killed in an early morning hit-and-run with a driver who they say was "involved" with officers before the crash.

TORONTO — The senior Ontario political staffer at the centre of a scathing report into the provincial government's decision to open up protected Greenbelt lands for housing development resigned Tuesday.

An elementary school in the booming southwestern Ontario city of London moved to cap enrolment this week, as the local school board grapples with how best to keep up with rapid population growth.

Ontario's municipal affairs and housing minister says he is looking at potential tax changes to spur the creation of rental units.

Police in a city east of Toronto say a man is in critical condition after he was stabbed multiple times while he was pushing his granddaughter in a stroller Tuesday morning.

Ontario will be offering funding to public-health units that want to merge as the province works on a "longer-term" approach to public health that clarifies roles and responsibilities, Health Minister Sylvia Jones said Tuesday.

TORONTO — The European company planning a spa and waterpark at Ontario Place has completed a redesign to create more public space and give the building a smaller footprint in response to feedback, but its staunchest critics remain opposed.

TORONTO — Three former Toronto mayors have asked the city to reconsider its decision to rename Dundas Street, questioning the "practicality" of the move and the research supporting it.

TORONTO — Teachers in Ontario's English Catholic system will be holding strike votes Oct. 18 and 19.