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 […]
Crafting new laws benefits from consultation, careful debate, expert testimony, and even compromise
Many of us, especially in those rural towns, got the chance to learn in buildings that were trailblazers in school design
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 […]
City staff are recommending the city pursue housing development on a parking lot in Old East Village and two lots at Ridout and Horton
A passenger on a London Transit bus suffered serious injuries when it collided with a London police cruiser in downtown London on Wednesday. The collision involving the bus and the marked police cruiser occurred at about 1:50 p.m. in the area of Queens Avenue and Talbot Street, London police said. One passenger on the bus […]
Police believe they caught the person responsible for the theft of electrical equipment and wiring from Graceland Festival Grounds, home of Lucknow’s Music in the Fields (LMITF). On March 16, a concerned citizen alerted LMITF organizers to the break-in of multiple storage units located at the Walter Street property, which is owned by the Lucknow […]
Elgin County is examining how its growing population will get around in the coming decades.
A London high school student is nearly finished building from wood a custom electric Mercedes-Benz G-Class SUV, informally known as the G-Wagon, after the project hit an unexpected roadblock.
A local childcare provider says she’s getting the runaround when it comes to subsidized rates through the Canada-Wide Early Learning and Child Care (CWELCC) system. “There are no spaces left to expand (under the CWELCC system) according to what the government divvies up to every county,” Joan Finlay, owner of Unique Minds Childcare Inc. in […]
A London man faces charges after a string of copper thefts from downtown over a five-month period.
London's downtown mall is proposing a new way to get more people to come inside – hosting city hall while its campus is under construction.