The morning Antony Centeno-So stabbed a friend to death is, he said, “a blur.” “It is all a blur for me because I was regularly sleep deprived and under the influence of crystal meth and fentanyl. This was the lowest time of my life,” he said Thursday at the second day of his sentencing hearing […]
London homeless helpers understand city council’s desire to dismantle an encampment after a fire and propane tank explosion – they just wonder where residents will go. This week, a council committee backed Ward 1 Coun. Hadleigh McAlister’s emergency motion to close the city-run service depot at the Watson Street Park encampment, and to have city […]
A Free Press reader says London missed the opportunity for a realistic ring road decades ago.
One person was taken to hospital following a blaze in a London apartment on Tuesday. The fire broke out in a second-floor unit of a building near the intersection of Hamilton Road and Adelaide Street east of the city’s core, London Fire Department officials wrote on social media at 3 p.m. on Tuesday. Fire prevention […]
Firefighters battled fires in multiple vehicles overnight near the intersection of York and Maitland streets just east of downtown, officials said Tuesday morning. It was about 3 a.m. on Tuesday when officials with the London Fire Department announced on social media that crews were called to the blazes and there were requests for additional support. […]
London city councillors have endorsed dismantling a homeless encampment and on-site service depot after a Sunday night fire and explosion at a park. Members of city council’s community and protective services committee unanimously backed an emergency motion at a Monday meeting to order city staff to help relocate 39 people living in the encampment at […]
One person has been arrested following a homeless encampment fire that was deemed an act of arson, London police say.
A Free Press reader suggests removing the homeless and panhandlers loitering downtown and accommodate them along Hamilton Road.
Funding for homeless drop-in services at Ark Aid Street Mission will continue to flow, despite the ward councillor putting up an intense fight to halt it. In a 9-5 vote at a city council meeting Tuesday, councillors resurrected a motion quashed at a committee meeting in March to give $611,000 to the agency so it […]
The group behind a 20-unit tiny home village for homeless veterans in London is hoping to raise at least $4-million from the community.
The Southwest Ontario Aboriginal Health Access Centre is hours away from shutting down the Jordan's Principle program
Many Londoners have opinions about the state of the core. One reader would like to add her voice, as someone who still lives downtown, and loves it.