Four people have been arrested after allegedly trying to cash a fraudulent cheque of $1.9 million, Durham police say.

It’s alleged on March 16, a woman went to a Uxbridge bank and cashed a fraudulent cheque.

Between March 16 and March 20, the female suspect and three other male suspects allegedly conducted bank transfers, withdrawals, e-transfers, wire payments and completed bank drafts in order to launder and take possession of the funds.

They were able to get more than $8

A Mississauga man has been arrested after nearly $1 million in stolen property was recovered in connection to a shopping mall break-in from his home.

Peel police say just before midnight on April 30, a masked man allegedly broke into a store at Square One Shopping Centre and stole “high-value jewelry and clothing” from multiple displays.

The suspect then fled on foot before stealing an unoccupied vehicle that had been left running nearby, police allege.

The vehicle was later recovered the following day.

After an investigation

MONTREAL — Roughly 55,000 clients are without power in Ontario and Quebec after severe thunderstorms on Thursday swept across Central Canada, which was already dealing with sweltering temperatures.

Environment Canada says that at the peak of the outages more than 214,000 customers were knocked off the grid in Ontario and nearly 140,000 customers were without power in Quebec.

Hydro One, Ontario’s power utility, says crews are working “as safely and quickly as possible” to

Tommy Hunter, a fixture in Canadian living rooms for decades with his long-running CBC TV show, has died at age 89.

The London, Ont., native is best known for hosting his music show “The Tommy Hunter Show,” which started in black-and-white in 1965 and remained on the air until 1992.

His business manager, Brian Edwards, said the late country star died of natural causes on Thursday in a London retirement home, where he had

A sentencing hearing is underway for two Burlington women who abused two Indigenous brothers in their care, killing the oldest.

Becky Hamber and Brandy Cooney were found guilty in early May of first-degree murder in the death of a 12-year-old boy, and of unlawful confinement, assault with a weapon and failure to provide the necessaries of life regarding his younger sibling.

First-degree murder carries an automatic sentence of life in prison with no chance of parole for 25 years.

The couple took in the

A woman is facing assault charges after allegedly stabbing another woman during a road rage incident in Oshawa on Canada Day.

Durham Regional Police were called to the area of Lakeview Park and Simcoe Street around 7:20 p.m. on July 1.

Investigators say a 53-year-old woman was involved in a road rage altercation with a 20-year-old man and a 19-year-old woman. The 53-year-old woman allegedly brandished a knife and the other

Toronto police are searching for a suspect wanted in connection with an assault in Scarborough early Friday morning.

Officers and paramedics responded to the area of Morningside Avenue and Ellesmere Road just after 5:30 a.m. after receiving a call that someone was assaulted in a park.

Police say they also received information that the suspect was armed with a knife.

The alleged victim, a man, was transported to hospital with serious but non-life-threatening injuries.

Investigators say his injuries were from an assault and not

The intense heat isn’t done with Toronto and the GTA yet as the first weekend of July approaches.

The region is still under an orange heat warning on Friday. A high of 31 C is in the forecast but will feel like a sweltering 41 with the humidex.

680 NewsRadio meteorologist Carl Lam says the GTA is also in for some unsettled weather.

“Some heavy downpours, thunder, lightning, also some hail, and some strong damaging wind gusts not out of the question,” he