Baseball

By Clara Lincolnhol

Michigan is pouring $77 million into clean-up of contaminated abandoned real estate such as former factories. The director of the Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy says the goal is to make the cleaned-up sites safe for housing, commercial developments and other uses.

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The stakes have been raised.

Barry Wells did many things in his eclectic life in London: Journalist, historian, cab driver, city hall critic.

A collection of news and notes from across the London-area sports scene

Exclusive articles from Ryan Pyette,

With nationwide love for the Toronto Blue Jays at a fever pitch as the team sits one win from a World Series championship, it’s worth remember the roots of the club run deep into London. This column by Jim Kernaghan on Don McDougall, the London executive who helped found the Jays, ran in the Feb. […]

“We want to give fans the opportunity to rally behind Canada's team," said Dave Sheedy, 100 Kellogg Lane’s VP of marketing and sales.

The Fanshawe Falcons and the Humber Hawks played each other in college baseball action at Labatt Park in London on Sunday. Photos taken by LFP’s Derek Ruttan druttan@postmedia.com

Mike Lumley has been the manager of the Western University men’s baseball team since its inception in 2001.

The Beal Raiders and South Lions faced off in a Thames Valley Regional Athletics senior girls basketball game.

On a beautiful sunny August Saturday, the For Our Youth (FOY) horticulture club met at the Bruce Botanical Food Gardens (BBFG) to tour the gardens, sample different food grown there, and harvest the vegetables we had planted in the spring. Introductions were made with our host Olivia, the BBFG garden manager, who welcomed us warmly. […]

In 2014, a group of botanists discovered that a very rare plant native to the Kankakee River in Illinois, had vanished from its only known native habitat in the world. That set off a quest to bring back the missing Midwestern flower.