The wild — wider — west
It wasn’t the only headache for London drivers this year, but it was a biggie. Relief’s now only a day away — Oxford St. W., snarled by a massive, seven-month, $8.9-million widening, reopens Friday to...
View ArticleGrandma charged with drunk driving at St. Thomas school
A 51-year-old St. Thomas woman faces impaired driving charges after failing a roadside test while picking up her grandsons from school.
View ArticleSarnia man arrested after threatening his mom with kitchen knives, police say
A man who allegedly threatened to kill his mother after she refused to give him money is facing several charges, police say.
View ArticleCanada's dead last in access to docs
Canadians rank last among top Western nations in getting to first base in the health-care system -- accessing a family doctor in a timely way.
View ArticleThe Political Beat: Nov 21
Reporters Patrick Maloney and Chip Martin looks at this week in politics. This week: the hydro lands development, the Broughdale bridge to nowhere, and more on Joe Fontana's upcoming trial.
View ArticleOpposition attacks Ontario Liberals on job losses
Imperial Oil's decision to close a lubricant blending and packaging operation in Sarnia had opposition members at Queen's Park calling Thursday for government action.
View ArticleA London cop who remembers that first fatal call to long-standing advocates...
A London police officer being honoured for helping abused women said he will never forget the call that changed the course of his career.
View ArticleHealth Canada mistakenly outs 40,000 medical marijuana users across country
It was a secret Joanne didn’t want carelessly shared with neighbours, or anyone else in her small Southwestern Ontario community.
View ArticleLondon hacking suspect argues police analysis
Sometime during a heavy barrage of computer lingo, even the judge at Christopher Biltcliffe’s trial needed the technology dialed back.
View ArticleLondon police investigation helped pluck 10-year-old from pornographer's...
A Florida boy repeatedly sexually assaulted by a tormentor who traded the images online is now out of harm’s way, after London police helped track him down in a rare rescue.
View ArticleFormer city engineer John Jardine says London Hydro development plans don’t...
The city official once responsible for the contaminated London Hydro site city leaders want to redevelop to transform the core says it didn’t make sense to do so years ago and it still doesn’t today.
View ArticleBylaw change allows London fire department to recoup costs of 'extraordinary'...
Where there’s smoke, there isn’t necessarily fire. Amid confusion and concern over a just-approved bylaw change that allows London’s fire department to recoup the costs of “extraordinary”...
View ArticleCourt brief
Two London men on trial for a vicious pharmacy robbery have been convicted by a jury.
View ArticleBrad Duncan said he needs every dollar in the proposed budget to support...
They’re shaving $1 million from their original budget request, dipping into reserves never used before and say they’ll even accept an outside audit — next year. But London police still want more from...
View ArticleOrser floats ‘healing farm’ instead of safe injection site
Coun. Stephen Orser brought up the idea Thursday of a “healing farm” as an alternative to any possible future safe-injection site that may be set up in London.
View ArticleWoodstock city council votes to reduce number of firefighters from 48 to 44
Woodstock city council has supported the recommended cuts to the Woodstock Fire Department but the change won’t be happening overnight.
View ArticleLarge marijuana grow operation raided near St. Thomas high school
St. Thomas police have busted a Talbot St. marijuana grow op they say was producing pot just steps away from Arthur Voaden Secondary School.
View ArticleIf granted provincial approval, the elementary schools could open as soon as...
Faced with fewer pupils but pockets of explosive growth, the Thames Valley District school board has asked the province for money to build two new elementary schools in opposite corners of north London.
View ArticleSarnia woman infected with flesh-eating disease
Leah Mootrey watched as part of her body was eaten away earlier this year, and she has the scars to prove it.
View ArticleSouthwestern Ontario edible bean harvest hindered by weather
A rainy harvest season is the latest in a frustrating series of events that have battered the edible bean crop in southwestern Ontario this year and left about 15% of the crop still in fields as the...
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