The Ottawa Citizen’s daily 5 p.m. roundup

It’s Tuesday, April 8. Here are the top stories the Ottawa Citizen newsroom is following today.

There are 250,000 potholes that the city knows about. But our streets could last longer if we tested what’s going into them.

Canada’s first MQ-9 Reaper drones will “not be carrying weapons” initially, according to internal documents.

Surprise was my first reaction to the announcement that former Toronto transit boss Rick Leary would be the new head of OC Transpo.

There has been a marked increase so far this year in the number of collisions involving impaired driving, according to the Ottawa Police Service.

Xzander Wright appeared briefly in court on Tuesday morning for a bail hearing, but the case was adjourned until April 28.

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