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On Tuesday, Ontario Premier Doug Ford announced an investment of over $12.4 million for the Skills Development Fund to help train more than 50,000 workers and students for “in-demand” careers across Waterloo Region and the surrounding areas.

Three men facing charges after Waterloo Police bust a so-called chop shop we’ll explain. Peel Regional Police investigating a deadly shooting in Brampton all caught on camera. And, the Premier pledges tougher legislation to deal with homeless encampments.

Leaders from cities across Ontario are gathering in Ottawa this week for the annual Association of Municipalities of Ontario conference. With more on what to expect from this conference, Waterloo Regional Chair Karen Redman joins Jaden Lee-Lincoln.

Sarah Mostowich from the StaySafe initiative in Ontario’s Waterloo Region demonstrates how to take a rapid antigen test for COVID-19.

Siham Ibrahim, a personal support worker from Chartwell Elmira, received Waterloo Region’s first COVID-19 vaccine at Grand River Hospital in Kitchener on Tuesday.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford commented Monday on a church in the Waterloo Region that is accused of holding an in-person service Sunday despite a court order compelling it to comply with COVID-19 pandemic restrictions, calling it “careless and irresponsible.”

Ontario Premier Doug Ford announced on Friday the province would be adding up to 18 more pharmacies in southwestern Ontario and Niagara region that would offer COVID-19 testing. Ford said some of the locations will include St. Catharines, Niagara Falls, Kitchener-Waterloo, Cambridge and London.

Ontario Health Minister Christine Elliott announced on Friday that they were lowering the thresholds for their COVID-19 alert levels and in turn several health units would be moving to new levels, with Hamilton, Halton, Peel and York moving to red level, Niagara, Waterloo and Durham among seven regions moving to orange, and Windsor-Essex, Middlesex-London and...

Ontario’s outgoing chief medical officer of health Dr. David Williams and incoming Dr. Kieran Moore defended the decision to move into Step 2 and not skip to Step 3, despite vaccination rates surpassing the thresholds set for the latter stage. They said with the Delta variant first identified in India still a cause for concern,...

On Thursday, Waterloo Regional Police Chief Bryan Larkin said officers were expecting crowds of as many as 30,000 at this year’s event.

Inspector Michael Haffner of the Waterloo Regional Police said on Thursday that the death of a woman at the site of a house explosion on Wednesday is being treated as a homicide.

A child has died due to COVID-19 in Waterloo Region. As Caryn Lieberman reports, little is known about the child beyond the fact that the death was not school or daycare related.

Waterloo Regional police said on Friday that a man arrested in connection with the sexual assault of three children between 2013 and this past July had “personal connections” to the area.

Waterloo Regional Police Service say they are treating a house explosion in Kitchener as a criminal investigation. They confirmed the death of a 58-year-old woman is a homicide. Katherine Ward reports.

Waterloo Region medical officer of health Dr. Hsiu-Li Wang announced on Friday that a child under the age of 10 from the area has suffered a COVID-19-related death.

Ontario Health Minister Christine Elliott called the death of a child under 10 in the Waterloo Region who died of COVID-19 a “tragic situation” and sent her condolences to the family on Friday. Health officials said the child’s death was not the result of any exposure in a school or daycare, and said the child...

Waterloo Regional Police say officers from across Midwestern Ontario arrested 14 people while seizing over $760,000 in illegal drugs and more than $500,000 in cash during a series of raids across the area on Sept. 15.

Waterloo Regional Police released footage along with 911 calls from a shooting which took place in downtown Kitchener last June.

As Ontario moves towards lifting COVID-19 restrictions, the Waterloo region is reporting a surge in COVID-19 cases due to the Delta variant. Jamie Maraucher reports on how the variant may have been transmitted, and what experts say needs to be done to control the spread.

Const. Andre Johnson says Waterloo Regional Police are investigating reports there was an explosion outside of a courthouse in Kitchener.