Quantcast
Channel: Local Stories
Browsing all 18901 articles
Browse latest View live

Startup Weekend makes its first appearance in London in February

If you’ve got a great idea for a business but don’t know where to start, Startup Weekend London could be just what you’re looking for.

View Article



20 of 23 non-management staff at Oasis retirement home replaced by contract...

Most of the staff at a new seniors’ home in Lucan were fired this week in what the Canadian Auto Workers (CAW) say was an attempt to squelch a union drive.

View Article

A glimmer of hope for Lee family

A long-distance phone call has offered some hope to a Woodstock woman who was brutally stabbed by her ex-boyfriend in 2008.

View Article

WARWICK: Mayor upset with lack of communication and common sense in planning

Plans for up to a dozen wind turbines in Warwick Township have Mayor Todd Case feeling frustrated.

View Article

Officials fear rollover damaged highway

A tractor-trailer which spilled its load of compost on Hwy. 401 near Iona Rd. Thursday morning may have also damaged the highway.

View Article


Several people in Sarnia face drug-related charges

More than $9,600 in crystal meth was seized and several people were arrested after a drug raid at a south Sarnia home.

View Article

Phone number crunch forces third area code

Move over 519 and 226. Londoners will have to add another area code to their dialing repertoire soon as the region’s supply of telephone numbers dwindles.

View Article

The dig before the solar panels go in

Before the solar panels go in, and long before those panels start collecting green energy for Ontario’s hungry electrical grid, the sites of future solar farms are scoured for hidden treasures that...

View Article


Developer Shmuel Farhi joins fray along with Music London and the Grand Theatre

Developer Shmuel Farhi is jumping into the competition to build a new performing arts centre, offering a three-acre “gift” of land to the city to create a new cultural enclave near the forks of the...

View Article


COURT: Sarnia Jail overcrowded, violent and suffers from lack of...

A Sarnia judge set a precedent by reducing a man’s sentence over a lack of rehabilitative programs at the Sarnia Jail.

View Article

EXCLUSIVE: Parents warned to have childcare backup

Ontario public elementary teachers have marching orders from their union for strike action to begin Monday.

View Article

The Big Shave

Another successful Movember campaign in London ended as a downtown merchant tried to set a Guinness world record for most Movember mustache shaves in one day. It was all to raise money for Prostate...

View Article

Couple jailed for oxycodone misuse

A Sarnia couple who ground oxycodone pills into powder so it could be injected have been jailed.

View Article


Record harvest in Ontario comes along just as a global wine shortage is looming

These are good times in Ontario's vineyards.

View Article

London's Victoria Park brightens with tree lighting Friday

The trees were lit at Victoria Park on Friday, Nov. 30.

View Article


Expanding all-night parking will cost $260K

It’ll cost city hall about $250,000 in lost ticket revenue if overnight street parking is allowed for an extra 10 weeks a year, a report says.

View Article

London: 'Exciting, exceptional, connected.' Huh?

Think London, and you might think: economically flat, culturally sleepy and politically divided.

View Article


Movember campaign raises big bucks but it’s important for prostate cancer...

Wives and girlfriends all across London can breathe a sigh of relief today.

View Article

Businesses urged to dig deep for Business Cares Food Drive

Demand at the London Food Bank has jumped nearly 20 per cent in one year, and London businesses and workers are being asked to help fill that need.

View Article

The goods on grads

With one in five Ontario teens still dropping out, many kids are struggling in some London-area high schools — both to graduate at all, and to wrap up in the four years now expected. Kate Dubinski...

View Article
Browsing all 18901 articles
Browse latest View live




Latest Images