OC Transpo runs 5,800 km worth of routes across the city. (Photo/Devyn Barrie) OC Transpo’s spring service changes take effect Sunday, April 21. Holiday service will be in effect on Good Friday and Easter Monday. Construction season is back and customers on some routes can expect impacts to service. ...

At the awards ceremony for Ottawa Public Library’s Awesome Authors contest. (Photo/Ottawa Public Library) The Ottawa Public Library unveiled the winners for their annual youth writing contest, Awesome Authors, over the weekend. The contest was open earlier this year to all youth writers between the ages of 9 and 18, who are residents of Ottawa and have not yet completed high school. ...

An OC Transpo bus on Wellington Street. Photo/Devyn Barrie If you’re a regular transit rider, you’re probably familiar with the Twitter handle @OCTranspoLive. It’s the main way the transit service communicates trip cancellations and disruptions. What you probably didn’t know, because OC Transpo doesn’t really mention it anywhere, is that the Twitter account is also highly incomplete and somewhat misleading to passengers who rely on it. ...

House of Targ marks their 5th on Wednesday. Where: House of Targ, 1077 Bank St. When: Wednesday April 17 @ 8 p.m. Cost: No cover charge House of Targ marks five years of being Ottawa’s pinball and perogie pinnacle with a “super over-the-top” party this Wednesday. ...

The fire is believed to have started in the roof of this historic building housing Vittoria Trattoria. Photo taken April 6. (Photo and illustration/Devyn Barrie) Business unaffected by Friday’s devastating fire in the ByWard Market reopened Saturday morning, while full account of the damage is taken. ...

Photo: OttWatch’s Kevin O’Donnell enters political donation data. (Via Twitter) After about two weeks of effort, OttWatch and volunteers have digitized almost all campaign donation records for the 2018 municipal election. The website for city hall nerds, run by Kevin O’Donnell, now has more than 2,700 (over 78 per cent) of 3,490 donations for the 2018 vote entered into their database. ...

News from the City of Ottawa. Photo/Devyn Barrie Are you thinking about starting your family tree, or researching the history of your house? Wondering what those DNA matches really mean? Learn all those answers and more at Ottawa Public Library’s second annual Discover Your Roots: Genealogy and Local History Fair, taking place Saturday, April 27, 10 am to 3 pm, at Ben Franklin Place, 101 Centrepointe Drive. ...

Downed trees after last September’s tornadoes in Ottawa. (Photo/Tree Canada) Via Tree Canada Tree Canada, Canada’s leading national tree charity, is supporting Ottawa-Gatineau residents replace trees lost from last September’s devasting tornadoes through its Operation ReLeaf Ottawa-Gatineau Tornadoes program, an ambitious greening initiative which provides funding to affected residents to re-plant trees on their property. ...

R4 infill housing, via a City of Ottawa planning report. The city last year outlawed bunkhouses that pack stupid numbers of bedrooms into urban buildings. Now it’s looking to address the rental housing shortage that made them. City of Ottawa planners are readying for consultations this fall on the second phase of its residential fourth density (R4) zoning review, which ties in with larger consultations over the new official plan. ...

Ottawa City Hall. Photo/Devyn Barrie Via Ottawa Public Library Celebrate National Poetry Month with creative and fun programs and events at Ottawa Public Library this April! Share poems by your favourite poets and discover poetry of all genres by joining us for POEtry KAraoke on Monday, April 8 at Bar Robo. ...