The best musicians across the Thames Valley District school board performed at Canada Life Place in downtown London during the annual Variety Is . . . showcase concert. Photos by LFP’s Mike Hensen mhensen@postmedia.com
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:
A heated discussion about the future of a homeless encampment near downtown London caused politicians to evacuate chambers and a woman to be barred from city hall.
During construction of its signature downtown Cornerstone building in 2011, Youth Opportunities Unlimited (YOU) faced sudden criticism of the ambitious and taxpayer-funded project. Some council members and city officials complained about a $2.2-million overrun and delay, because of what they called “luxury features” in the renovation of a historic building at York and Richmond streets. […]
By month's end, downtown London drivers will confront a major change: buses coming the other way in one lane of King Street, a longtime one-way street.
A Free Press reader enjoyed an article on Hudson Bay Co. but wondered why no photos from London were included in the feature.
Businesses in London's downtown could soon get a decent cash infusion if they open up in one of many vacant commercial spaces.
Firefighters battled fires in multiple vehicles overnight near the intersection of York and Maitland streets just east of downtown, officials said Tuesday morning. It was about 3 a.m. on Tuesday when officials with the London Fire Department announced on social media that crews were called to the blazes and there were requests for additional support. […]
A push by a downtown landlord and the London Community Foundation to bring more affordable housing to the core has fallen flat after no partners responded to their offer
The emptying of office space in London’s downtown may be levelling off, one commercial realtor says, as the latest commercial vacancy rate hit a new high in the first quarter of this year. London’s downtown now has 32 per cent of its office space vacant, up from 31.7 per cent at the end of 2024, […]
Many Londoners have opinions about the state of the core. One reader would like to add her voice, as someone who still lives downtown, and loves it.
One was an old factory, the other an overlooked area downtown. Both are now go-tos. This is Part Five of Postmedia's How Canada Wins series.