There is no shortage of ways to get your flu shot this year in Ottawa, thanks to walk-in flu clinics across the city as well as shots at local pharmacies. Here’s a list of flu clinics in Ottawa. You can also check if your neighbourhood pharmacy has flu shots – most do. ...

Heather Cloutier shares these photos of two snowmen waiting for the bus, following Ottawa’s first snowfall of the season this past weekend. (Hopefully the bus arrived before they melted.)

This display on Sunnyside Drive in Stittsville attracts hundreds per year, according to the homeowner. (Photo by Barry Gray) Where are Ottawa’s most ghoulish and gruesome haunted houses, garages, and front lawns? Here are some suggestions: Sunnyside Drive at Fernbank Road. ...

Ottawa’s city clerk has declared Monday’s election results official and you can see how neighbours at your local poll voted with a dataset released on the city’s open data portal. The dataset breaks down election results for mayor, councillors and school board trustees by individual polls in each ward and school board zone. ...

This note was appended at the end of David Reevely’s column in the Citizen on Thursday: Some personal news: Eighteen years, three owners, four editors-in-chief and five newsroom jobs later, this is my last regular column here. On Monday, I start as a news editor in the Ottawa bureau of The Canadian Press, covering Parliament Hill. ...

Photo by Manuel M.V. Used under a creative commons license. The City of Ottawa has posted an online survey for the public to provide feedback about allowing retail stores to sell recreational marijuana in Ottawa. The survey is open from Oct. ...

Re: ‘It was a real family’: Ottawa employees remember life at Sears Yesterday morning I couldn’t help but stop in the empty parking lot at Carlingwood and stare at the sight of what was Simpsons-Sears, then later Sears – now no longer. ...

Jim Watson will remain in the mayor’s office for at least another four years after garnering 71.21 per cent of the vote on Monday’s election. Watson’s closest competitor, Clive Doucet, received 22.12 per cent of the vote. “Thank you for giving me once again a strong mandate as Mayor of Ottawa,” Watson said in a statement Monday night. ...

The City of Ottawa election is on Oct. 22. Voters will elect a mayor, city councillors and school board trustees. You can find out where your polling location is on the city’s elections web page. Most polls are open from 10 a. ...

Gina Hedges, a Stittsville resident who is living with polycystic kidney disease, is searching for a living kidney donor. (via Gina Hedges) Gina Hedges was 25 when her mother, Carol, found out that she had a rare kidney disease and was in need of a donor. ...