Ontario News

CHATHAM, Ont. — Police in southwestern Ontario have charged a 41-year-old man with failing to self-isolate after returning from travel in the United States.

Hamilton police say the slaying of a 20-year-old man over the weekend was likely motivated by road rage.

MONTREAL — Authorities say a 12-year-old girl has died after a house fire in the city's LaSalle borough. Montreal police were called by the Montreal fire department at about 9:30 a.m. to a home on Marroni Street.

HAMILTON — An early-morning fire that tore through a Hamilton townhouse complex destroyed or severely damaged 11 units and potentially left dozens of people without a home, officials said Monday.

OTTAWA — Officials with Fisheries and Oceans Canada say extremely high water levels in the Fraser River mean salmon are travelling slowly on their journey to spawning grounds upstream, adding another obstacle to their already precarious return.

MONTREAL — Quebec authorities said Monday the COVID-19 pandemic in the province remains largely under control, but described what they said was a worrying increase of infections among teens and young adults.

Inconsistent funding for licensed child-care centres means facilities in some Ontario municipalities may not be able to reopen or expand capacity even as the province allows them to accept more children, an industry association said Monday.

WINDSOR, Ont. — The mysterious, low-frequency noise that plagued the city of Windsor, Ont., for nearly a decade has finally quieted down after a steel factory just outside neighbouring Detroit halted its operations indefinitely.

TORONTO — Ontario Premier Doug Ford says the hosts of a Brampton, Ont., house party that had upwards of 200 people in attendance over the weekend need to face the "full extent of the law.

TORONTO — Ontario municipalities will receive up to $4 billion in funding to help cover the costs incurred due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with up to half earmarked for public transit, the province said Monday.