Ontario’s police watchdog has closed its investigation into a collision involving a cruiser and a snowplow that injured two snowmobilers north of Wingham three months ago. Ontario Provincial Police in Huron County shut down the southbound lanes of London Road during a winter storm on Feb. 17. An officer had pulled over and activated the […]
A person riding an e-bike who was injured in a crash near Stratford has died, provincial police say. The rider lost control and crashed on Perth Line 42 in Perth East about 10 p.m. May 15, Perth OPP said. Perth East is a township of about 13,000 north of Stratford. A 30-year-old Perth East resident […]
Police are investigating after a rainbow Pride flag was lit on fire at an elementary school in Norwich, an Oxford County community where there have been several prior incidents involving LGBTQ symbols
Provincial police seized more than $11 million worth of illegal cannabis from a Southwestern Ontario property.
A tranquilized black bear high in a tree fell to the ground – apparently unharmed – after experts were unable to persuade it to come down on its own in Owen Sound
The Thames Valley District school board’s former education director has been reported to the provincial teaching regulator for alleged “professional breaches,” an audit report showed.
It was refreshing to read council has voted against renaming Plantation Road Larch Road, and has agreed to use part of the surplus to reduce the projected tax increase for Londoners.
A London teen is charged after one man was stabbed and another was struck in the head after two groups clashed downtown, police say.
Editor’s note: The following story deals with a description of child pornography. A Southwestern Ontario senior who pleaded guilty last September to both having and sharing child pornography was sent to jail despite his lawyer’s argument that he should get an at-home sentence. James A. King, 67, of Simcoe was caught after using Kik, an […]
SARNIA — A young Windsor man who led various police units throughout Southwestern Ontario on a wild high-speed chase from Grand Bend to his hometown last summer called it an extremely foolish mistake. “I’ve learned a very valuable lesson through all this,” Jakob Monforton said to a Sarnia judge as he was being fined $4,000 […]
It was the $5-million mystery that gripped people across Southwestern Ontario: Who bought the winning lottery ticket that nearly hit its one-year expiry date before being cashed in? The question appears to have a happy answer. But high-profile lottery mega-wins don’t always have such positive endings. LFP’s Brian Williams looks back on other fascinating Southwestern […]