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• Victim of fatal crash near Exeter, Ont. identified

  Huron County OPP have identified the victim of a fatal crash north west of Exeter, Ont. on Monday evening.

  

• Guelph police follow blood trail to suspect

  Guelph police were able to locate a suspect after following a trail of blood down five floors and out of a building on Silvercreek Parkway North.

  

• Up in smoke: Recent cannabis store closures in Uptown Waterloo could be signs of oversaturated market

  Cannabis shops cropped up quickly across Waterloo region, but it seems some are now closing shop shortly after they arrived. At least one expert says the shift could point to signs of saturation as the heavily competitive fight for cannabis sales takes its toll.

  

• These Ontario cities and towns are now paying people to visit

  A few Ontario cities and towns are now offering to pay tourists to encourage them to stay overnight this summer.

  

• 'I was legitimately terrified': Encampment resident recounts armed police response

  What ended up being a false alarm saw Waterloo regional police respond to a weapons call at a Kitchener encampment with guns drawn on Saturday.

• Rally in Guelph pushes for increased local abortion access

  Reproductive rights were in focus in Guelph Monday night as a crowd gathered at city hall to demand more local access to abortion services and denounce developments in the United States.

• Drayton park vandalized before official opening

  The Drayton Rotary Park in the Township of Mapletown was vandalized over the weekend.

• 'A nurse can't be everywhere': Health care staff shortages prompt Ontario ER closures

  The recent temporary closures of two Ontario emergency rooms and consolidation of staff at another have renewed concerns over the province's health-care worker shortage, with doctors and nurses calling on the government to tackle the problem.

• Driveway paved without permission needs to be ripped up, says Puslinch, Ont. homeowner

  A Puslinch, Ont. woman says her driveway will need to be repaved less than month after she came home to find strangers working on it without her prior consent.

• People warned to stop stomping on canola crops to take selfies

  Two 'serious instances' involving people endangering crops to take selfies at an Ontario canola farm have prompted police to warn the public about the potential consequences of trespassing into crop fields.

• One deceased, four taken to hospital following head on collision in Oxford County

  One person has died and four others — including three children — have been taken to hospital following a head on collision in the Township of Blandford-Blenheim, Ont. Monday afternoon.

• Monkeypox vaccine for pre-exposure use expected in Guelph next week

  Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph Public Health (WDGPH) says it expects the monkeypox vaccine to be available for pre-exposure use in Guelph beginning next week.