Winning a gold medal at the OFSAA track and field championship is a remarkable feat. Winning three individual gold medals is nearly unheard of, but Jackson MacKay, 18, of London did just that at the provincial meet held June 5 to 7 in Toronto. MacKay, a student at Sir Frederick Banting secondary school, won the […]
John Davidson on Tuesday walked 30 kilometre from St. Thomas to London to mark the 30th anniversary of Jesse's Journey.
After far-off wildfires drove air quality in the region into high-risk territory last week, a Southwestern Ontario health unit has extended a special air quality statement.
John Davidson, 79, will walk from St. Thomas to London on Tuesday to mark the 30th anniversary of Jesse’s Journey, the 1995 effort when he pushed his 15-year-old son, Jesse, in a wheelchair across Ontario to raise money for Duchenne muscular dystrophy research. Jesse died in 2009 at age 29 but the campaign he inspired, […]
Two gunmen killed a nurse outside her northwest London home in a botched hit targeting her boyfriend, a court heard.
Hockey jerseys out, grad gowns in. London’s downtown arena, home to the national champion London Knights junior hockey team, will become convocation central for not just one, but both of London’s post-secondary schools for the first time starting Monday. Thousands of graduates from Western University and Fanshawe College, and their guests, will converge on the […]
Elgin County is examining how its growing population will get around in the coming decades.
Londoners planning a summer staycation can skip the Toronto transfer and head straight to Niagara Falls for a hassle-free weekend getaway.
A Free Press reader says the $125M plan to redevelop London city hall is "not an investment, it's a growing debt burden."
A scheduled homicide trial starting Monday of a man charged in the shooting death of Lynda Marques has taken an unexpected turn.
London’s unemployment rate went up by half a percentage point for a second straight month in May, Statistics Canada reported Friday, as the ongoing trade war between Canada and the U.S. continues to take a toll on the local economy. The London region, which also takes in St. Thomas, Strathroy and portions of Elgin and […]