Amid surging influenza cases provincewide, public-health officials for London and surrounding Middlesex County are reporting 20 times more cases than this time last year.
2025 marks a new record for cases of gunfire in London in a single year after police say there were six shootings in a 72-hour period.
GM's new electric cargo van was supposed to be its Ingersoll factory's salvation. Instead, it left the Cami plant idled. Why didn't it sell?
By Clara Lincolnhol
Michigan is pouring $77 million into clean-up of contaminated abandoned real estate such as former factories. The director of the Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy says the goal is to make the cleaned-up sites safe for housing, commercial developments and other uses.
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Since first being detected in 2021, a subtype of highly pathogenic avian influenza has had a dramatic impact on North America
By Clara Lincolnhol
New research says workers picking, grinding and packaging cannabis are developing workplace-related asthma, and two deaths have occurred so far.
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However, what charges the three accused will plead guilty to won’t be known until early next month.
The loss of measles elimination status in Canada is a symptom of a declining trust in public messaging about science and health
By Eric Freedman
Tiny pieces of moss can be crime-busters, says a study examining how law enforcement agencies, forensic teams and botanists have used moss to solve murders, track missing people, calculate how long ago someone died and – in a notorious Mason County case – try to locate the body of a baby murdered by her father.
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More often than not, imposing mandatory minimum sentences to hamstring judicial discretion is a political flex.
Out of his four cases, former Woodstock mayor Trevor Birtch has secured two mistrials.
By Joe Lorenz
Electrification and tariffs mean rural Midwest communities can cash in on their mineral resources. But how can these ventures balance local benefit to the ecological cost?
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