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Chief Keith Blake with the Tsuut’ina Nation Police Service and Supt. Shaena Morris with the Waterloo Regional Police Service join Global News Calgary with details on a mentorship program aimed at enhancing knowledge and skills in members who want to lead police services in the future.

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.

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’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,...

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...

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

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 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.

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 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 have released a video of two people connected to a string of fires in Waterloo over the past few months.

NEWS UPDATE with Keri Ferguson A COVID-19 variant discovered in the Port Hope area; two more deaths at Caressant Care McLaughlin; Ontario Government will announce March Break plans Thursday; 22 year old Waterloo driver clocked at 118 kilometers in a 50 klm zone on Clonsilla Ave.; 7 day regional weather outlook. Issued: 4:25 pm.

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