Новости за 31.12.2016

WASHINGTON — The Senators won’t have to wait long for their first big test of 2017. They’ll have their hands full on New Year’s Day. Before they get a mandated five-day break in the schedule, the Senators will close out their schedule against the Washington Capitals at the Verizon Center as they try to halt […]

It’s been a horrible year in many respects and, on the face of it, an “Alberta Clipper” driven snowstorm could be seen as indicative of the worst. But we are winter, darn it. We are made for snow. No really. Well, there were also puppies.

Dion Phaneuf didn’t participate in the club’s final skate of 2016 at the Canadian Tire Centre Saturday morning. But he’ll be ready to go in 2017. Senators’ coach Guy Boucher indicated the club’s veteran defenceman was just given a day off to get some rest for a minor bump or bruise and he’ll be ready […]

Ottawa firefighters mounted a rescue operation in Manotick Saturday morning after a resident reported seeing snowmobile tracks leading to a hole in the partially-frozen Rideau River.  Firefighters rushed to the scene north of Hurst Marina on River Road, and found that a snowmobile had gone through the thin ice.  Several witnesses, however, reported that the […]

Firefighters were working to quell a fire that broke out in a Centretown row house early Saturday.

The Citizen's restaurant critic dishes on his favourite meals of the year.

While the music world lost some iconic stars in 2016, it gained some fantastic jazz recordings.

Ottawa paramedics took a man in his 50s and a woman in her 40s to hospital with life-threatening injuries after a two-vehicle collision at a busy Orléans intersection on Friday evening.

From a civil servant who spent decades launching Canadian astronauts and technology into the mystery of space to a storyteller who creates her own worlds for audiences, a string of local people were among Friday's appointees to the Order of Canada.

If you think it has been 150 years since Canada became an independent nation, you’re wrong, but not alone.

East-end detectives are investigating after a shot was fired into the front door of an Orléans home early Friday morning.

Claesson impressed the 10,192 fans who came out to the Senators annual skills competition at Canadian Tire Centre – including his mother, father, uncle and a pair of cousins from Sweden – taking away hardest shot honours with a 106.9 miles per hour blast.

Stung by new punishments, Russia is looking straight past President Barack Obama to Donald Trump in hopes the president-elect will reverse the tough U.S. stance toward Moscow of the last eight years, the Associated Press reports. More from the Associated Press article: In a stunning embrace of a longtime U.S. adversary, Trump is siding with […]

The Ottawa 67's Austen Keating scored a hat trick as Ottawa skated to a 3-1 win over the Oshawa Generals in OHL action Friday afternoon at The Arena at TD Place.

Don Butler looks back at his big story the competition to redevelop Lebreton Flats and the drama that surrounded it. Read some of his stories Going all in on LeBreton: Anatomy of a successful bid Runner-up team attacks NCC’s choice of RendezVous LeBreton NCC won’t release Lebreton Flats evaluation scores until cabinet sign-off

Citizen report Blair Crawford was inspired by the story of Monica Higgins. Higgins overcame an addiction to crack cocaine and went back to adult high school. Just shy of her 4oth birthday she graduated at the top of her class. A thousand students attend St. Nick’s at its two Ottawa campuses, but few have a story […]

On February 16th Ottawa received 50 centimetres of snow.  Citizen Reporter Tom Spears was impressed by how everyone in Ottawa managed to cope with the record amount of snow and still get on with their lives. Read other stories about the snowstorm. Digging out: Commute slow, school buses cancelled again after record snowfall Surprise early […]

Kelly Egan reflects on perhaps his most viral story ever when he wrote on the Royal Canadian Mint gold thief that stole over $140,000 in gold from the mint by hiding it in his rectum. Read all of the stories about this crafty thief. Canadian Mint employee accused of smuggling $180K of gold in his […]

The Carleton Place hospital has closed part of its inpatient unit and is warning visitors away amid an outbreak of norovirus. People needing emergency care should still come to the hospital’s emergency department. The hospital said in a statement on its website it’s working with the public health unit to “contain and resolve” the outbreak […]

It’s going to be one of the biggest New Year’s bashes in Ottawa history. The Canada/Ottawa 2017 kickoff, combined with the usual festive events, have prompted a raft of unprecedented road closures in the downtown area Saturday night. In fact, officials are urging everyone to find their way downtown early, and to use free public […]

“This is something very personal to me and a cause that I have been passionate about for a long time,” Alfredsson said in a statement released by the Senators Friday.

Two-and-a-half months after being hit by a car in the parking lot at the Richcraft Sensplex and breaking his tibia, nine-year-old Jacob Rheaume was on the ice Friday — his first game back with the Gloucester Rangers White AAA minor atoms.

Earlier this month, the UN Security Council adopted Resolution 2334, which declared Israeli settlements on occupied lands illegal. The United States, which had the power to stop the resolution, abstained. Avi Benlolo shares his view of what Secretary of State John Kerry should have said afterward: On behalf of my administration and president, I apologize for not vetoing […]

Brace yourself. As the clock ticks toward the new year, it’s worth noting the unprecedented 2017 sports calendar on the horizon for Ottawa. Call it a perfect storm, a collision of milestone birthdays of the country and the sporting world, especially the hockey world, to make the National Capital Region a place to be (or […]

Visual journalist Darren Brown looks back at the time he spent with MMA fighter, Fred Stonehouse, and his philosophy on life: You win or you learn. The world’s biggest mixed martial arts promotion, the Ultimate Fighting Championship, descended on Ottawa in June, bringing with it several days of spectacle that culminated in a slate of […]