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A 23-year-old man drowns at Trout Lake, La Pêche

Over 1,800 methamphetamine pills seized in Gatineau

Some 400 tour operators, travel agents and suppliers are at the Hôtel-Casino du Lac-Leamy through October 21 for Bienvenue Québec 2026, the tourism trade show that Fédération des transporteurs par autobus chief executive Luc Fortin says typically yields about $50 million in contracts, and that Tourisme Outaouais is using to sell the region to buyers who mostly come from outside Quebec. Photo: Tashi Farmilo

Tourism’s matchmakers set up shop in Outaouais: industry trade show

Sales of the Advent calendars will help combat food insecurity in the region. Photo: Rochef Chocolatier

An Advent calendar to support Moisson Outaouais

Film screenings in Old Aylmer, a Day of the Dead altar, a play and a human library are among the events Gatineau has scheduled from October 30 to November 15 to mark the Semaine québécoise des rencontres interculturelles (Quebec Intercultural Encounters Week). Photo: Gatineau Bulletin Archives, 2023, UNAM Canada

Film, theatre and a human library mark intercultural week in Gatineau

Avi Lewis était de passage à Gatineau lors d’un évènement spécial d’échanges d’idées, entre autres. Photo : Ottawa NPD

Avi Lewis veut ramener le NPD à ses racines progressistes

Maison d'INGRID and supporting organizations gathered beside Gatineau's Parc Mémoire d'Elles on October 7 in response to the death of Monique Thibault Poirier, a 77-year-old Laval woman whose death is the 19th suspected femicide in Quebec this year. Photo: Tashi Farmilo

Gatineau rally marks Quebec's 19th suspected femicide

A drone drop of tobacco, narcotics and cell phones worth $47,850 was seized outside the Hull detention facility in August, part of $581,650 in major contraband seizures across Quebec’s jails that month. Photo: Correctionnellement - Public Facebook page

Drone drop worth nearly $48,000 intercepted outside Hull jail

The information evening for the Sport-Studies program at Hadley Junior High School and Philemon Wright High School took place on Wednesday and was attended by about 50 people. Photo: Drazen Seslija

Hadley and Philemon Wright relaunch their sports programs

Flu vaccination: Outaouais residents urged to prepare for the winter season

Gatineau hosts its first Journée de l’emploi et de la formation continue on November 12 at the Palais des congrès, a free one-day fair pairing employers, training institutions and employment agencies with job seekers, which Chambre de commerce de Gatineau et des Collines executive director Etienne Fredette calls a concrete way to support the economic vitality of the Outaouais. Photo: Tashi Farmilo

Des Collines and Gatineau job fair this November

After 15 years of activity, the organization is kicking off a new year by taking stock of its achievements and setting out directions for continuing its work toward more sustainable mobility. Photo: MOBI-O

MOBI-O celebrates 15 years of commitment to sustainable mobility

Lawyers led by Christian Tanguay, bâtonnier of the Barreau de l’Outaouais, will open Gatineau’s municipal court to the public on October 22 for free information on tenant rights and homelessness, after a Barreau du Québec poll found 63 per cent of Quebecers would not know where to send someone at risk of losing their home. Photo: Courtesy of the City of Gatineau

Lawyers offer free legal guidance as Outaouais homelessness climbs

West Quebec home care company Aidexpress is receiving a $500,000 federal repayable contribution to add artificial intelligence to its platform, which it says will match Outaouais seniors with home care workers more quickly and flag those most in need of help. Photo: Tashi Farmilo

West Quebec home care company receives federal funding

Liberals reclaim Gatineau; PQ wins Papineau by a thread

Gatineau police arrest 19-year-old on sexually related charges

RAWQ introduces new leadership and continues its development

Members and partners of the Outaouais roundtable on hunger and social development gathered outside Le Marché de l'Outaouais. The roundtable's new guide helps Gatineau seniors eat well on a fixed income and find food aid in Aylmer, Hull, Gatineau and Buckingham. Photo: Courtesy of TCFDSO

New guide helps Gatineau seniors eat well on a tight budget

A regional forum held September 23 at Gatineau's Maison du Citoyen issued an urgent call for faster action on the Outaouais housing crisis, highlighting that affordable units remain almost impossible to find even though overall rental vacancy has risen. Photo: Tashi Farmilo

Outaouais housing forum seeks to turn crisis talk into a regional action plan

Gatineau councillor Isabelle N. Miron, who has blocked at least 200 Facebook accounts since her re-election, is calling on the public, police and society to curb online hate before it drives elected officials off social media and deters women, young people and minorities from running for office. Photo: Tashi Farmilo

Isabelle N. Miron fears online hate could push women and youth away from politics

A free online book by curator Gerald McMaster examines how Indigenous artists have borne witness to the residential school system and its lasting legacy, through 70 works that include Allen Sapp's 1988 painting Recess at Onion Lake School. Photo: Courtesy of the Art Canada Institute

Indigenous artists bear witness to residential school legacy in new free book

Concordia University president Graham Carr has been named chair of the board overseeing the Canadian Museum of History and the Canadian War Museum. Photo: Courtesy of Concordia University's Facebook page

Graham Carr takes the helm of museum board as federal cuts reshape institutions

The Carrefour culturel Estacade, which brings live shows to more than 30,000 young people a year from its Buckingham base, says it must raise $200,000 by October 16 to avoid closing after the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec announced funding of $78,750, well short of the $278,750 it needs to break even. Photo: Courtesy of Carrefour culturel Estacade

Buckingham arts venue Estacade has until October 16 to raise $200,000 or close to it

Outaouais tenants pay among the highest rents in Quebec and report more trouble covering them than most of the province, a new Léger study finds, as Vivre en Ville argues that a mandatory public rent registry is needed to protect the region's remaining affordable housing. Photo: Tashi Farmilo

Outaouais rents among highest in Quebec as many tenants struggle with cost