Ontario News

MILTON, Ont. — Ontario Premier Doug Ford pledged Friday to build more jails as data shows the inmate population surged over the last year to the point where the vast majority of correctional institutions are well over capacity.

VAUGHAN, Ont. — Police north of Toronto say hate was a motivating factor in a man's alleged nail-gun-wielding assault directed at pro-Palestinian demonstrators. York Regional Police say officers were called on Sunday to an area in Vaughan, Ont.

Three young men have been arrested and charged with first-degree murder after a pregnant woman and her partner were found dead in Bowmanville, Ont., last year. Durham Region police Det. Sgt.

Ontario's police watchdog says one man is dead and another has been arrested after exchanging gunfire with Ontario Provincial Police northeast of Greater Sudbury.

TORONTO — Marineland has been found guilty under Ontario's animal cruelty laws of three charges related to its care of three black bears, which lived in cramped quarters with little access to water for months. The Niagara Falls, Ont.

TORONTO — Ontario's finance minister says he will present the province's next budget on March 26 with no tax increases.

TORONTO — Ontario's jails have seen a dramatic increase in the number of inmates over the past year with the majority of the facilities well over capacity, new data obtained by The Canadian Press shows.

OXFORD COUNTY, ONTARIO — A charge has been laid in a school bus rollover in rural southern Ontario that left five children injured.

TORONTO — A packed Toronto airport commuter train struck and killed a 14-year-old girl and 16-year-old boy Monday night, officials said, as investigators worked to piece together how the teens ended up on the tracks.

CAT LAKE FIRST NATION, ONTARIO — A remote northwestern Ontario First Nation has evacuated people with specific medical needs after a fire destroyed its nursing station, the community's chief said on Tuesday.