After more than 58 years behind the wheel, 80-year-old London Transit driver Doug Gardiner has retired. In the process, he set a record for both London Transit and the Ontario Safety League for driving 52 years without a preventable crash. Reporter Jack Moulton spoke with Gardiner about his career and his first few months of […]
As city hall seeks savings to meet Mayor Josh Morgan’s order to cut next year’s proposed tax hike, two politicians have their own idea: Delaying or cancelling bike lane projects. Ahead of Thursday’s meeting of the budget committee, councillors Susan Stevenson and Paul Van Meerbergen are proposing a motion to have city hall staff come […]
One plot of land, two different possible outcomes for northwest London: a new high school or more than 600 units of housing in multiple buildings. LFP reporter Jack Moulton takes a look at a pitch to help round out a subdivision near the city’s northern border. A SECONDARY SCHOOL? Developer Landea Developments Inc. has put […]
A London builder is ready to embrace an extensive, and costly, nod to heritage in order to build residential towers in the Oxford Street and Richmond Row area.
A Free Press reader says "too often now, change is initiated by those who pull at the heart strings of people, and not common sense."
London police responded faster to calls last year after five years of steady increases the chief called “totally unacceptable,” new figures show.
London politicians have killed a six-year effort to rename a west London street with slave-era connotations after soundly rejecting a double-pronged attempt to restart the process. During Tuesday’s city council meeting, politicians voted 9-6 both against renaming Plantation Road to Larch Road, and conducting more public engagement to consider a renaming. “The history of the […]
Ward 12 Coun. Elizabeth Peloza, who first brought the issue to city hall, pledges to put it back up for discussion Tuesday.
Flush with cash, London city council is set to debate whether to offer homeowners a break on sky-high property tax increases approved throughout this term or spend it supporting social and cultural programs. City hall has posted a nearly $60-million budget surplus this year and some politicians want to use roughly $17 million of the […]
City council's decision to end the scheduled service depots runs the risk of alienating homeless campers and increasing their desperation
London Transit politicians may shy away from service cuts, amid construction-related delays and further declines in Fanshawe enrolment.