London Ski Club: Boler braces for uplifting season
The natural snow expected overnight Wednesday will grab Londoners’ interest.
View ArticleWinter storm hits London region
A much anticipated winter storm hit the London region Wednesday afternoon, making for blinding driving conditions on top of slick roads.
View ArticleFamed heritage activist passes into local history
Australian-born, but London-rooted, Julia Beck was one of this city’s most tireless heritage activists.
View ArticleIllegal to obstruct lawful hunters
Hunting in Ontario is not illegal, but interfering with a hunt is.
View Article'Please Lord, don't let me die like this'
Being home for the holidays has a special meaning for Shaukei Oliveira after a workplace accident resulted in a near-death experience for the Chatham man.
View ArticleFirst significant snowfall in London area creates chaos on roads
Oh, baby, it was a wild world.
View ArticleHived off or helped out?
Ontario’s cash-strapped government is getting out of a housing program Jan. 1, rolling it into a new support system — separate from welfare — to help the homeless. Queen’s Park says the change will...
View ArticleMan in mask wanted by police
London police are looking for a heavyset man wearing a goalie mask after a stabbing Wednesday night at Citi Plaza on Wellington St.
View ArticleFunny side of policing
The Chatham-Kent Police Service has released its top 12 silly calls for 2012.
View ArticleNew rules mean media can live tweet trials
Play-by-play of trials on Twitter and live blogs by journalists now have the blessing of the Ontario courts starting in February.
View ArticleTwo patients got influenza while at London’s University Hospital, officials say
Two patients have contracted the flu while at London’s University Hospital, triggering an outbreak that’s led officials there to close a ward and step up efforts to get staff vaccinated.
View ArticleUnattended boiling grease cited as cause
Grease left boiling on a stove was blamed for a $300,000 fire Thursday on Lorne Ave. in Chatham that destroyed a duplex and an adjacent single-family home.
View ArticleSarnia may soon be the province’s lone border point without a lockup
To Sarnia’s border-city distinctions could soon come a new one: Ontario’s only border point without its own jail.
View ArticleLondoner Heykel Kader is living proof of how difficult it is to live — and...
Heykel Kader picked the right time — dovetailing the London-area’s first winter snowstorm — to show his support for the homeless by spending a week in their shoes.
View ArticleReaders divided on top story of 2012
A see-saw battle is raging between Free Press readers in the newspaper’s survey to choose the top local news story of 2012.
View ArticleCN says industry shutdowns possible
Some CN customers in Sarnia are beginning to feel the impact of an ongoing spur line blockade at Aamjiwnaang First Nation, says a railway spokesperson.
View ArticleChristmas crash: ‘You’re not supposed to bury your children’
Five days after his daughter died in a car crash, the father’s voice still breaks.
View ArticlePersonal information for thousands gone missing
An electronic storage device containing personal information on about 5,000 Canadians has gone missing at the federal department responsible for pensions and employment programs.
View ArticleAfter-school programming cancelled indefinitely
Harmony for Youth, a local charitable organization offering free after-school programming to kids in Sarnia, has closed its doors, effective immediately.
View ArticleLondon club has best opening in years
The Columbia Lift will be servicing Easy Street, Rub-A-Dub & JS.
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