Ottawa police say the technology included in the body-worn camera pilot project is helping them respond more quickly to community needs.

In a video released by the Ottawa Police Service (OPS), for example, an officer is shown helping an elderly woman find her...

Ottawa police say they are already seeing benefits from the artificial intelligence system built into body-worn cameras, a system the force plans to expand in coming years.

“What we’ve seen is a very high-level improvement for report writing,” Ottawa Police Sgt. Devon Archer told the city’s Police Services Board on March 25. “What would normally take an officer an h...

With warmer weather approaching, health experts are reminding Canadians that protecting their skin from the sun is more important than ever.

Skin cancer remains one of the most commonly diagnosed cancers and experts say many cases are preventable with proper sun protection.

“Three to four people in Canada are dying every day from melanoma,” said

The number of reported hate-motivated crimes directed at the LGBTQ2+ community is declining in Ottawa, which would be good news if there wasn’t so much uncertainty around the numbers.

Both the Ottawa Police Service (OPS) and community groups point to under-reporting as a confounding variable in the effort to effectively capture the city’s&n...

The long, bitter winter of 2026 has taken a toll on Ottawa’s shelters where capacity has become a major challenge.

“We’ve been seeing unprecedented levels since at least the pandemic, and especially in the three years that I’ve been here,” Myles Dingwall, senior communications officer for The Ottawa Mission, says. “In the winter, we’ll see an uptick of around 10 per...