To bring the tax increase down the needed 23 per cent, or 1.5 percentage points, would mean finding $13 million in savings.
Several charges have been laid after a Southwestern Ontario couple’s two dogs were shot dead during an apparent coyote hunt gone wrong, their owner says. The German shepherds, nine-year-old Mary Jane and three-year-old Hank, were owned by Kaitlin Strong and her husband Robert Jordan. Strong says she’s been told by a Ministry of Natural Resources […]
Middlesex Centre is asking London for a favour that would allow more housing in Arva but it may not like the answer. Instead of saying yes to the request for London to take more of Arva’s sewage, the chair of city council’s planning and environment community said he thinks the community could be better off […]
A Melbourne man faces 28 charges after a driver fleeing London police in a stolen truck crashed into multiple vehicles last week.
A city council committee endorsed increased funding for a family doctor recruitment strategy that has had some success, even if some members are uneasy about it. Council’s community and protective services committee ultimately recommended an $80,000 funding extension to the primary-care recruitment and retention program, funded through the city-funded London Economic Development Corp. (LEDC) reserve […]
SARNIA – A Lambton County man convicted of mischief around the time a stretch of Highway 402 was shuttered during the 2022 so-called Freedom Convoy has been jailed for a series of new crimes including assaulting and obstructing a police officer. Steve Verberne, 48, from Watford, recently pleaded guilty to those two charges along with […]
The bankruptcy of a Volkswagen partner in electric vehicle battery production will not threaten the automaker’s St. Thomas investment, industry experts say. The development does, however, demonstrate increasing volatility in the EV sector during this high-tariff automotive environment, and the $7-billion PowerCo EV battery plant in Southwestern Ontario may face future delays, they said. Northvolt, […]
The top doctor of a health office at the epicentre of Ontario's measles outbreak continues to urge vaccination as the best defence
A 21-year-old man was charged and another was sent to hospital after a stabbing in London’s south end, city police say.