Bruce Pit News Today

In this instalment of My Ottawa Life, Erin Benjamin shares her favourite lunch and retail spots, some of the best music venues and local artists on the scene, and the itinerary for an ideal day in Ottawa.

An Ottawa man’s volunteer project is sending pet food and medicine into a country where the Russian invasion forced many people to leave animals behind

The patient was located in an extremely icy area about one km in from the parking lot.

Ottawa firefighters rescued an injured hiker who fell at Bruce Pit over the weekend.

Mayoral candidate Mark Sutcliffe is pledging to build at least three new dog parks in underserved neighbourhoods in Ottawa if he’s elected mayor on Oct. 24.

After a tornado ripped through Bruce Pit off-leash dog park in 2018 the woodland is lush with new growth. But some things done by the National Capital Commission are not ecological best practices, according to an urban forestry expert.

May's devastating windstorm destroyed about 70 per cent of the tallest trees in the especially hard-hit Pine Grove and Pinhey Forest, the National Capital Commission announced on Monday.

After extensive damage to trees and forests wrought by the May derecho and 2018 tornadoes, it's unclear just how soon the City of Ottawa can reach its goal to boost tree canopy to 40 per cent.

After extensive damage to trees and forests wrought by the May derecho and 2018 tornadoes, it's unclear just how soon the City of Ottawa can reach its goal to boost tree coverage to 40 per cent.

The clean-up continues three weeks after a devastating storm tore through Ottawa. The extent of that destruction is still being discovered in the citys south end at Conroy Pit, near Hunt Club Road.