The Kathleen Wynne government has introduced legislation to clear the way for the creation of a new Ontario Retirement Pension Plan (ORPP).

A large blaze in downtown Los Angeles early on Monday consumed an apartment building that was under construction and shut down two major freeways, the Los Angeles Fire Department and California Highway Patrol said.

There will not be a coroner's inquest into the deaths of three young people in a boating accident on Lake Wanapitei in northern Ontario last year.

The Ontario Public Service Employees Union members received a strike mandate from its members Saturday.

Amid a sea of holiday shoppers, about 30 protesters, among them professional opera singers, gathered on Sunday in midtown New York to sing Christmas carols modified with lyrics lamenting recent cases of police violence against African American males.

Seven countries have restricted poultry imports from B.C. following a Fraser Valley avian influenza outbreak that has so far put five farms under quarantine and an estimated 140,000 birds facing slaughter.

For the fifth year in a row, Lou Conter made the trip to Honolulu from his Alta Sierra, California, home to remember his USS Arizona shipmates who died in the surprise air attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.

Hydro smart meters and the MaRS loan are expected to be hot topics when Ontario auditor general Bonnie Lysyk releases her annual report Tuesday.

Economic Development Minister Brad Duguid was putting a happy face on gloomy job figures Friday, saying it was all a question of, “two steps forward, one back.”