The Zellers department store on Sparks Street, long a shopping destination for government workers near Parliament Hill, is closing down after nearly 27 years. The owner of the building, Morguard Investments, has confirmed the Sparks Street mainstay will shut by March of next year to make way for a new business — possibly a bank, [...]

The New York Rangers expect the Senators to make adjustments after taking a 1-0 lead over Ottawa in their first-round playoff series. The Rangers, the top seed in the Eastern Conference, know they need to be prepared with Ottawa looking to refocus after a 4-2 loss in Game 1 on Thursday night. The Rangers and [...]

Hélène Campbell, the 20-year-old Ottawa internet sensation who underwent a double-lung transplant after engaging major celebrities in her organ donation campaign, has taken to Twitter to announce she is breathing on her own after surgery. “Oh my gosh, what a great day! No more tubes, I can breathe!” she wrote in a Twitter post around [...]

Police say seven people were arrested Friday after the Montreal office of Quebec’s education minister was trashed. The vandalism ups the ante in the series of long-running protests against planned tuition hikes. Three people were arrested for participating in an illegal gathering, while another three were detained for mischief and participating in an illegal gathering, [...]

Members of the Saint-Nicholas Russian Orthodox Cathedral plan to go ahead with their traditional Easter procession, but will stay on the sidewalk. (CBC) Members of the Russian Orthodox community in Outremont say they will defy a borough moratorium on parades, and hold their traditional Easter procession as planned. The Montreal borough imposed a moratorium on [...]