Firefighters from across Norfolk County worked for more than five hours Friday night and Saturday morning to contain a large fire of about 2,000 discarded railway ties near Mabee’s Corners in Courtland. Norfolk’s deputy fire chief, James Robertson, said the “significant outdoor fire” on Orange Hall Road involved intense flames and heavy smoke, with the […]
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It wasn’t long before the homeless returned to an encampment in the backyard of an east London home after police and firefighters cleared the scene following a fatal blaze, neighbours say. A fire ripped through 1884 Avalon St., northwest of Clarke Road and Dundas Street, on April 17, killing resident Teresa Cartwright and causing $500,000 […]
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Many of us, especially in those rural towns, got the chance to learn in buildings that were trailblazers in school design
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Traffic lights are now operational at an intersection in London’s southwest, months after a fatal collision just down the road led to a petition for improved safety measures. The city announced the activation of traffic lights at the intersection of Longwoods Road and Westdel Bourne near Lambeth on Thursday. The rural intersection had been monitored […]
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A 71-year-old woman was the person seriously injured in a crash between a London police cruiser and city bus that sent her and two other passengers to hospital, Ontario’s police watchdog says.
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One person is dead after a motorcycle and a farm tractor collided in a rural area north of London, provincial police say.
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The Crown prosecuting five former junior hockey players accused of sexually assaulting a woman took aim at defence criticisms of her
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Hanover police say they are investigating after a 66-year-old woman was killed in a hit-and-run collision on Wednesday evening.
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The lawyers representing five hockey players on trial for sexual assault called their accuser’s evidence “an exercise in fact-finding frustration.”
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New details about the fatal shooting of a woman outside her London home in 2021 were revealed at a sentencing hearing for a Toronto man
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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.