London Free Press
The Lucas Vikings and St. Thomas Aquinas Flames kicked off their TVRA girls fast pitch season with a game at North London fields on Friday.  Photos by Mike Hensen mhensen@postmedia.com
London Free Press
Roop Chanderdat is sticking with history and tradition. Though the London Majors will play two Intercounty Baseball League home games this summer as the Forest City Cobra Chickens, there is no name change forthcoming. “We’re the Majors,” the club’s longtime co-owner and manager said. “It’s exciting that an April fool’s joke took off like that. […]
London Free Press
London’s unemployment rate jumped by half a percentage point in April as the local economy shed nearly 2,000 jobs and the toll of the U.S.-Canada trade war came into sharper focus.   Statistics Canada reported Friday the jobless rate for the region, which includes St. Thomas, Strathroy and portions of Elgin and Middlesex counties, hit […]
London Free Press
A 31-year-old man charged recently with sexual assault faces additional charges after a boy was sexually assaulted in a washroom in west London. The school-age boy went to a public washroom in a building on Hyde Park Road near Sarnia Road on Friday, May 2 around 9:30 p.m. A man not known to the boy […]
London Free Press
Volkswagen has dodged the tariff and trade dispute between Canada and the U.S. and its manufacturing plant being built in St. Thomas will proceed full speed ahead, the city’s economic development boss says. Electric-vehicle batteries made in St. Thomas will be tariff-free under recent changes to the trade policy announced by the U.S., auto industry […]