Measles cases have surged again for the Southwestern Ontario public health office at the centre of a provincewide outbreak, after a dip in reported cases.
The sexual assault trial of five former Team Canada junior hockey players won’t be back before the jury until Friday.
One person is dead and one is in hospital after a two-vehicle collision involving a passenger vehicle and a transport truck northeast of Strathroy. Ontario Provincial Police said emergency crews were called shortly after 10:30 a.m. Thursday to the scene of the collision and had closed Egremont Drive between Hedley Drive and Ilderton Road. That’s […]
An investigation was underway Thursday after fire damage a London church. London Fire Department officials said in a statement on social media shortly before 6 a.m. that firefighters were at the scene of a blaze at Our Saviour Lutheran Church, located at 1449 Brydges St. in the city’s east end. Officials called it “an exterior […]
London’s mayor is pledging to provide relief to taxpayers in the final year of his term as a new city hall report details a budget surplus of nearly $60 million. The staff report on the city’s 2024 year-end operating budget outlines a $58.8 million surplus on the property tax budget, and a $700,000 surplus on […]
Charges have been laid after London police responded to a report of a man with a gun in the city’s north end early Tuesday, police say. At around 1 a.m., a group of men was in a parking garage in the 700 block of Kipps Lane, near the intersection of Adelaide Street North, when they […]
The Liberal candidate in a Southwestern Ontario riding is accusing his Conservative rival of “divisive and fear-mongering politics” over a letter suggesting the government intends to end the tax-exempt status of churches. David Hilderley, running for the Liberals in Oxford, released a statement accusing Conservative incumbent Arpan Khanna of engaging in a “disinformation and smear […]
Ashley Bourget says she went for a bike ride and bought clothing at a thrift store after being ordered to leave her east London apartment where a bloodied, motionless Grant Norton was tied up on her couch. Bourget returned to her Adelaide Street home hours later to find Norton dead on the couch and the […]
City council has rejected staff’s recommendation to quash a proposed northwest London apartment building, approving the project with fewer floors than first proposed and arguing the need for housing outweighs concerns over height and parking. Politicians voted 13-2 to approve an eight-storey apartment building, down from the proposed 10 storeys, at 801 Sarnia Rd., immediately to […]
Evidence was to begin Wednesday morning at the high-profile trial of five members of Canada’s 2018 gold-winning world junior hockey team, who are charged with sexual assault in connection with an alleged 2018 incident at a downtown London hotel. LFP reporter Jonathan Juha has live coverage below:
Officials with the London region’s largest school board say they have no plans to send any more students on class trips to the United States amid uncertainty at the border since President Donald Trump’s re-election. While student treks to America have been common for decades, the Thames Valley District school board “isn’t planning any future […]
A craft brewery in St. Thomas is distancing itself from a former executive after a photo of him making an obscene gesture outside a Liberal rally in Brantford went viral on social media. Matt Janes, who is a volunteer for David Goodwin, a Liberal candidate in Elgin-St. Thomas-London South, was photographed as he held up […]