he city has been "ready to go" but needs participation from CN rail to get the job done legally and safely, mayor says
The condition of a railway crossing that’s frustrated drivers has prompted the St. Thomas mayor to try to “clear the tracks” on who’s responsible, saying a resident was given incorrect information by CN Rail. St. Thomas Mayor Joe Preston issued a public statement saying residents’ complaints about the condition of the crossing on First Avenue, […]
Mayor Joe Preston noted the importance of building homes for the city’s growing population, but said new residents will also need places to shop.
A Free Press reader thinks too many London councillors seem "all too eager to silence anyone who asks questions pertaining to transparency and accountability."
St. Thomas hospital officials are making a case to city politicians for a new medical centre to support the region’s surging population.
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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 […]
Controversial Conservative candidate Andrew Lawton has been elected in a redrawn London-area party bastion.
Here’s your primer on the five London-area races and ridings and the contests in the wider five-riding region for Monday’s federal election. LONDON CENTRE The riding: It’s sort of a new kid on the block this time with a new name — it had been London-North-Centre — and new boundaries that leave out the northernmost […]
Central Elgin is establishing a planning department to prepare for a population surge driven by Volkswagen’s massive electric vehicle battery plant scheduled to open in neighbouring St. Thomas in 2027. A largely rural municipality bordering St. Thomas, Central Elgin announced Tuesday it starting a “transformative initiative” by seeking a planning manager, senior planner and planning […]
A departing Conservative MP with deep roots in a London-area riding won’t endorse any candidate to succeed her, not even the one running under her longtime party’s banner. Karen Vecchio, who had represented Elgin-Middlesex-London since 2015, said she won’t publicly support anyone to fill her vacated seat, now renamed Elgin-St. Thomas-London South after the riding’s […]
Southwestern Ontario mayors are bracing for job losses due to U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade war, but remain optimistic
