London Free Press
The woman on trial for the first-degree murder of a drug dealer whose body was found in a barrel near the Thames River was used as a “dupe” for the actual perpetrators of the crime, defence counsel said Wednesday. Defence counsel for Ashley Bourget, who pleaded not guilty in the death of Grant Norton, a […]
London Free Press
The percentage of London-area voters who cast a ballot in this week’s federal election beat the national average – and of the local ridings, Huron-Bruce was tops at 75.2 per cent. It was an election that produced little change locally: One riding changed hands, with London-Fanshawe won by the Conservatives from the NDP, and there […]
London Free Press
London police have charged a man with arson following a fire that disrupted exams at Western University. Emergency crews were called to campus around 2:30 p.m. on April 24 to reports of a fire at the Social Sciences Centre, where firefighters doused a blaze, police said. Nobody was injured. Investigators ruled the fire suspicious and […]
London Free Press
Former radio host Andrew Lawton, 35, retained the riding of Elgin-St. Thomas-London South for the Conservatives in Monday night’s federal election following a campaign marked by some inter-party tension and loud protests. He spoke with LFP reporter Brian Williams about his first political victory.  Q. You campaigned unsuccessfully for Ontario’s Progressive Conservatives in the London […]
London Free Press
While Taylor Elgersma mulls over some impressive National Football League opportunities, he also now has an option north of the border. The 23-year-old Londoner and Oakridge grad was selected by the Winnipeg Blue Bombers in the second round with the 18th pick in the 2025 CFL draft late Tuesday. The reigning Hec Crighton award winner […]
London Free Press
In an election-night shocker, Conservative candidate Kurt Holman turned his low-profile first run for public office into a huge win by taking London-Fanshawe in Monday night’s federal election, ousting NDPer Lindsay Mathyssen. LFP reporter Jonathan Juha spoke with him in the afterglow of his victory. Let’s start from the beginning. Tell us a bit about […]
London Free Press
Rachael Gauthier said she was inside her Adelaide Street home Monday morning when she saw London police vehicles and officers outside what she described as an unsanctioned scrap metal operation across the street. Tactical officers backed up by an armoured vehicle surrounded the property at 726 Adelaide St. N., south of Oxford Street, where she […]
Interlochen Public Radio
Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s appointment of Michigan Supreme Court Justice-designate Noah Hood might have been more consequential if it flipped the high court’s majority. But that’s not the case. Rather, it takes the court from a majority of Democratic Party-affiliated justices to a 6-1 super majority. Why it matters. Plus, President Trump will visit Macomb County next week for a rally highlighting the first 100 days of his second administration.
London Free Press
A major academic building at Western University is closed while London police investigate a suspicious fire that has forced the university to move some exams. London firefighters responded at 2:30 p.m. Thursday to the Social Sciences Centre. Firefighters quickly extinguished the blaze but damage was significant and fire investigators were called in, the department said […]
Interlochen Public Radio
Minnesota and Wisconsin are bitter rivals at just about everything. So in 2019, when Wisconsin’s secretary of tourism claimed Wisconsin had more lakes than Minnesota, the embers of an age-old debate were stoked. Minnesota is known as the “Land of 10,000 Lakes”, but does Wisconsin really have more?