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FRENCH RIVER, Ont. — Provincial police say a man from French River, Ont., is facing charges after allegedly failing to quarantine after returning from a trip.

VAUGHAN, ONT. — A school in Ontario's York Region has been ordered to close after six students and three staff tested positive for COVID-19.

Public health officials say 16 cases of COVID-19 have been linked to a wedding-related event held at a facility in Waterloo Region. The Region of Waterloo Public Health unit says most of the people who have tested positive are not local residents.

Ontario is reporting 987 new COVID-19 cases today and 16 new deaths related to the novel coronavirus. That brings the provincial total to 79,692 cases, which includes 3,182 deaths and 68,189 cases considered resolved.

Police say an Ontario taxidermist is facing fraud charges related to polar bear pelts. Durham regional police say two people asked an Uxbridge, Ont., man who ran a taxidermy business to work on a polar bear pelt in 2018.

A trailer hitch thrown at an Indigenous woman from a moving car ruptured her small intestine and led to worsening health conditions that killed her months later, a doctor told a Thunder Bay, Ont., court on Tuesday. Dr.

A failure to comply with public health measures at a southwestern Ontario farm has led to at least 40 workers testing positive for COVID-19, local health authorities said Tuesday.

MONTREAL — Quebec Premier Francois Legault says the province's infection rate would be declining instead of remaining stable if it weren't for two problematic regions outside the big cities.

The Ontario government has announced a new tiered system to evaluate when and to what extent COVID-19 restrictions are placed on regions across the province.

Ontario is reporting 1,050 new cases of COVID-19 today and 14 additional deaths related to the novel coronavirus.