Ontario News

Ontario is eliminating licence plate renewal fees in the name of saving drivers money, though Premier Doug Ford sounded less certain Tuesday about fulfilling a promise to cut gas prices.

Ontario is reporting 1,038 people in hospital with COVID-19, including 319 in intensive care. That's down from 1,403 hospitalizations and 364 in intensive care a week ago. The province is also reporting nine more deaths due to the virus.

Ontario says it is providing more stand-alone HEPA filter units for schools and child-care centres to offer more children greater protection against COVID-19.

PICKERING, Ont. — Police say a 72-year-old woman has been charged with second-degree murder after a woman's body was found in a wooded area near a creek in Pickering, Ont.

TORONTO — Pandemic recovery, housing and affordability will be top of mind for Ontario's party leaders as the legislature resumes sitting Tuesday for the last few weeks of the session ahead of a June election.

TORONTO — City police have identified a man who was shot and killed in Toronto over the weekend. The shooting happened early Saturday morning in the Keele St. and Flamborough Dr. area. Police say officers responding to the call around 1:17 a.m.

Ontario Provincial Police say a person has died after a two vehicle crash in the Township of Springwater. They say a pickup truck collided with a passenger vehicle at the intersection of County Rd. 90 and George Johnston Rd. late Sunday afternoon.

RENFREW, Ont. — Provincial police have charged a 27-year-old Petawawa, Ont., man with manslaughter and dangerous operation of a vehicle causing death.

A township in southern Ontario says it has declared a state of emergency due to significant winter weather conditions.

Police say a 23-year-old man has died from an overnight snowmobile crash on Six Mile Lake in southern Ontario. They say officers responded to the crash at the west shoreline of Walpole Island just before 2 a.m. Sunday.