Toronto City Hall

Toronto is one step closer to launching a plan to tackle its growing rat population after being adopted during Wednesday’s municipal committee meeting.

Some Toronto city councillors are reviving a plan to force landlords to display colour-coded RentSafe signs on their apartment buildings — ranking them based on property standards and building violations.

Toronto almost lost $2.5 million in an attempted electricity fraud involving a retired city worker’s credentials, which were used to fraudulently sign contracts with third-party energy companies, according to the auditor general.

Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow will be leading a trade mission to the United Kingdom and Ireland, which she says will focus on supporting economic opportunities for Toronto businesses and workers.

Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow is planning to put a spotlight on the city’s film and screen industry during her upcoming trade mission to the United Kingdom and Ireland.

A new report by Toronto’s Auditor General has found that city management claimed to have fully implemented 19 recommendations around snow clearing ahead of a major February snowstorm that brought the city to a standstill, when in fact it had implemented just eight – fewer than half of what it claimed.

In the wake of a sweltering heat wave in the Greater Toronto Area, tenant advocates and some lawmakers say more needs to be done to improve temperature regulations for rental units.

City council has voted to temporarily reopen a small portion of King Street to vehicular traffic while effectively killing a proposal from an east-end councillor to allow vehicles along a longer portion of the corridor.

Five of Toronto’s Automated Speed Enforcement (ASE) cameras were vandalized in the past 24 hours, police said on Thursday, as city councillors debated how to improve the program and make it “fairer” for drivers.

Toronto City Council has approved a motion that will allow low-rise sixplexes in a nine wards.

Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow says she is bringing a motion to city council to fix some of the “gaps” that were exposed in the city’s response to a three-day heat wave this week.

The sexual assault trial of longtime Toronto councillor and former deputy mayor Michael Thompson reached closing arguments as the defence made its case in a Bradford, Ont. courtroom.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford is weighing in on a decision by the city to close some outdoor pools amid scorching temperatures, saying they should be able to stay open given city resources.

Up to 400 city staff will be working every Saturday for the next three months, cleaning public spaces, streets, and parks as part of Toronto’s 'cleaning blitz.'

Former mayor John Tory says while he has no immediate plans to run for mayor, he has “a lot to think about” before the next municipal election is held next year.