Andrew Duffy

The Donald Street apartment building fire that sent three people to hospital in critical condition Thursday was the third significant fire at the high-rise in the past 15 years.

Ottawa police are appealing for the public's help as they investigate a suspicious fire that forced the evacuation of a highrise last week.

Devcore had spearheaded the establishment of a tent city beside the Robert Guertin Arena, but will shut that down as scheduled on May 15.

An Ottawa woman has raised more than $500,000 for cancer research at The Ottawa Hospital during the decade she has lived with pancreatic cancer.

A 42-year-old Ottawa man has been charged with arson and attempted murder in connection with last week's high-rise fire in Overbrook.

Askari Metals' latest auger drilling campaign has revealed encouraging total rare earth oxides (TREO) hits as high as 4505 parts per million at its 100 per cent-owned Red Peak project in Western Australia's Gascoyne region.

Gold Mountain has run the rule over its Wabag project in Papua New Guinea, with a data overhaul uncovering the core of at least three porphyry systems that may host substantial copper-gold deposits.

Aurum Resources has revealed a glimmering suite of shallow, wide gold hits from a recent diamond drilling campaign at its Boundiali project in West Africa's Côte d'Ivoire – peaking at 90m going 1.16 grams per tonne. The new assay collection also includes 59m at 1.42g/t gold from 68m with 13m at 3.92g/t and 23m at 1.36g/t from 293m featuring a 5m chunk going a solid 3.32g/t.

88 Energy has earmarked the middle of this year to begin shooting a 200-line-kilometre 2D seismic survey over 10 prospective oil and gas closures picked up by airborne gravity data in Namibia's Owambo Basin. Management says the closures are also supported in part by existing 2D seismic data, in addition to soil gas sampling that validates the existence of a hydrocarbon-producing source rock.

Resource definition drilling is underway at Everest Metals Corporation's Mt Edon critical mineral project in WA's Mid West region in a bid to firm up the existing rubidium exploration target to mineral resource status. The target is between 3.2 and 4.5 million tonnes with a grade of 0.23 to 0.35 per cent rubidium – numbers the company hopes to swell in its looming maiden mineral resource estimate.