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Ontario plans to soon start offering fourth doses of COVID-19 vaccines to residents aged 60 and older, the province's health minister said Tuesday as she maintained that the province is equipped to handle rising cases and hospitalizations.

OSHAWA, Ont. — A judge highlighted the strength of an Ontario mother, the kindness of her son and the positivity of her daughter on Tuesday as he sentenced their killer to life in prison with no chance of parole for 25 years.

Health officials say thousands of Ontario students have fallen behind on routine vaccinations typically offered in schools as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

TORONTO — A Toronto cancer hospital has received a $50 million donation to support research into the disease.

A 31-year-old man faces multiple charges in connection with a fire in Mississauga, Ont. Peel Regional Police say investigators found the blaze at the constituency office of Liberal MP Peter Fonseca in the early hours of Feb. 22, to be suspicious.

TORONTO — When he established his lab at the University of British Columbia in the 1980s, Pieter Cullis says he never could have fathomed that his "curiosity-based" research would eventually play a critical role in the development of vaccines that ha

TORONTO — Ontario plans to temporarily reduce taxes on gas and diesel, but it will only take effect after the June provincial election.

A 17-year-old boy has been sentenced to a year in an open-custody facility and six months of community supervision in a crash that killed two children in Vaughan, Ont., north of Toronto.

OSHAWA, Ont. — Ontario is able to manage the "little spike" in COVID-19 that the province is seeing right now, Premier Doug Ford said Monday as hospitalizations jumped 30 per cent week over week.

TORONTO — Michael Ford, the nephew of Premier Doug Ford, will run for the Ontario Progressive Conservatives in the provincial election in June.