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PETERBOROUGH, Ont. — Ontario Provincial Police say four people have died in a head-on crash involving a pickup truck and an SUV on Highway 7 east of Peterborough. One person has been sent to hospital with life-threatening injuries.

TORONTO — There are less than two weeks to go in the Ontario NDP leadership race and Marit Stiles, the sole official candidate, is so far the presumptive winner.

Residents in Ontario's Niagara region are being asked to keep an eye out for pieces of a meteorite that crashed down in the area this weekend.

TORONTO — Ontario doctors pushed lawmakers this week to create specialized non-profit clinics to tackle a massive surgical backlog that worsened during the pandemic.

LONDON, Ont. — Police in London, Ont., say a teenage girl has been arrested after a stabbing at a local high school. Police say emergency crews responded Monday around 11:30 a.m. after a report of a stabbing at H.B Beal Secondary School.

LONDON, Ont. — Another pediatric hospital in Ontario says it's cutting back on surgeries to help prop up its overburdened critical care units.

TORONTO — Ontario's education minister has his eye on negotiations with teachers' unions, a day after the government reached a tentative deal with education workers to avert a strike – though developments are likely far off.

BRANT COUNTY — Ontario Provincial Police say a person has been charged with careless driving after a school bus drove a short distance with a child caught in its doors.

Climate change could intensify lake-effect storms like the one that dumped a record-setting amount of snow on some communities in southern Ontario this weekend, an Environment Canada meteorologist said Monday.

TORONTO — A union representing 55,000 Ontario education workers reached a tentative deal with the provincial government Sunday, averting a strike that had been planned for the next day.