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The City of Ottawa is going to develop a municipal food strategy to look at improving access to food and tackling food insecurity, but the council approved motion did not direct staff to explore city-owned grocery stores in the capital.

A new ‘bubble zone” bylaw will take effect in Ottawa in August that will prohibit protests within 50 metres of places of worship, schools, childcare centres, hospitals and residential care facilities.

As part of Ottawa 200 celebrations to mark the bicentennial of the founding of Bytown, a city committee has approved a plan to plant one tree in each of the city’s 24 wards.

An Ottawa councillor wants the city to explore the development of a municipal food strategy, including city-owned grocery stores to improve food access and tackle food insecurity.

Parkgoers will be able to enjoy beer, wine or spirits in select City of Ottawa parks again this summer, as the city extends a pilot project allowing alcohol consumption in municipal parks.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford says the City of Ottawa should be putting speed bumps in school zones to slow drivers down, after new data shows speeding has increased in the months since photo radar cameras were turned off.

Ottawa is looking at an $80-million project to widen the Carling Avenue Bridge in order to better connect Dow’s Lake Station to the future Civic Campus of the Ottawa Hospital.

The City of Ottawa’s emergency preparedness and protective services committee has approved a motion that would loosen some of the requirements of a new bylaw that requires people doing hardscaping work to have a city-issued licence.

Get ready for traffic headaches as Phase One of the Bank Street Renewal project grinds on.

Ottawa drivers are speeding up in school zones since photo radar cameras were turned off by the Ontario government five months ago, with more than half of drivers exceeding the speed limit, according to the City of Ottawa.

Stop-arm cameras have caught dozens of drivers failing to stop for school buses on Ottawa roads, but staff warn expanding the school bus camera pilot project to more buses will be costly.

The City of Ottawa has announced a step forward in its 10-point plan to recruit and keep family doctors in the capital.

Two ‘landmark’ towers could soon dot the skyline in Ottawa’s’ Centretown neighbourhood, as part of a plan to build 513 new residential units.

The sales of yellow garbage bags for Ottawa households with more than three items of garbage every two weeks generated more than $500,000 in sales for the city last year.

City of Ottawa crews will begin refreshing the white and yellow paint that marks lanes and intersections on municipal roads later this spring.