Several homes in Newmarket were evacuated this afternoon after there was an explosion in the sewer that shot a manhole cover into the air along a residential street.

Enjoy our golden November, with its shorts-clad joggers and kids digging in soft sandboxes, while it lasts. Environment Canada says the warm and sun is going to be pushed out by clouds, showers and flurries later this week.

Loud yelling, five or six gunshots and then screams shattered the early-morning quiet as a man collapsed, dying, on the pavement in front of a Bay St. condo tower early Sunday

Loud yelling, gunshots and screams shattered the early-morning quiet as a man collapsed, dying on Bay St. early Sunday.

It was a plan calling for a major revamp of how city-run recreational programs are delivered and paid for, and it also sought to give the poor greater access to those services.

A Tamil Canadian protester chokes back tears as she recalls a cellphone conversation she had several days ago with a cousin detained in a Sri Lankan camp holding Tamils displaced during the country's civil war.

Two-year-old Emily Chong grinned and snuggled up to her father's knees as she clutched what has been billed the year's hottest new toy.

When they learned their husbands were infertile, the future mothers of Kevin Martin and Rob Hunter both got help with conception at the same London, Ont., clinic. Now, Martin and Hunter want to know about the other half of their genetic heritage, and whether they actually share the same biological father. But they're fed up with having to play detective

Art Cunneyworth was a man with a long memory and a keen sense of charitable payback. Every year around Christmas, for as long as his family can remember, he quietly and anonymously gave to the Toronto Star Santa Claus Fund.

A new list of the world's ugliest buildings proves the ROM's Michael Lee-Chin Crystal is just as controversial today as when it first opened.

The people who drive the buses already have a union. Now there's a movement afoot to create one for TTC riders. In a week punctuated by token hoarding, a fare hike and a six-hour subway disruption comes the suggestion that a transit users' union is the better way to represent riders' frustrations and interests.

Daniel Sullivan doesn't remember how he got backstage.

If you've been grumbling about the rain these past few days, blame Jutta Mason. She's been praying for it. Her latest triumph: Weather permitting, Dufferin Grove's rinks open this morning, a week earlier than last year.

On those occasions when my friend Christie Blatchford says something particularly ditzy or trips on a sidewalk crack or gets us totally lost whilst driving, I always dryly observe: "You're having a very blonde day."

York University has brought in tough new controls in the wake of a Toronto Star investigation that showed a former student fabricated dozens of its degrees, and another got into Osgoode Hall Law School with a degree purchased from a diploma mill.

An Italian researcher says he has successfully treated scores of patients with multiple sclerosis, which has long been thought to be an autoimmune disease.

It will be a full house tonight at Wegz Stadium Bar in Vaughan, and it won't be because of the Leafs.

A Pickering man admitted he was drunk when he tackled British rock star Noel Gallagher as the guitarist's band Oasis performed at the Toronto Island last year.

Yesterday I swam the length of a swimming pool – and it was a wonderfully ugly sight to behold.

TTC collectors let many riders put tokens in turnstiles only to find they couldn't get on the train or wouldn't go as far as they needed.