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Ontario education minister Paul Calandra has put the Thames Valley District school board – home to 84,000 students – under Queen’s Park supervision following a controversial three-day Toronto retreat by top officials last summer that cost $38,000. Investigators, auditing the board’s books, found a lack of financial oversight in the budgeting process led to a […]

Wands casting fire. A spell that lights it up like a flashlight. A staircase that dances on its own.

As police search for the parents of an abandoned baby boy, a behind-the-scenes process involving child welfare officials is underway.

Anthony Mitchell, a retired school principal running for the Rhinoceros Party in Sarnia, says he has no campaign budget, just a red nose and a slogan.

Anthony Mitchell, a retired school principal running for the Rhinoceros Party in Sarnia, says he has no campaign budget, just a red nose and a slogan.

Reader to Reader runs every second week in The London Free Press. Reader to Reader helps readers connect with one another.

A Free Press reader suggests removing the homeless and panhandlers loitering downtown and accommodate them along Hamilton Road.

Inside rustic cabins and yurts at the Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park there are log books. For more than 70 years, visitors have written in them. We went into this time capsule to see if people’s experiences here had changed much over the changing decades.

"(It) would be a step backwards."

London manufacturers fear a “fight” with customers and possible job losses will be the fallout from steel and aluminum tariffs imposed Wednesday on Canadian exports to the U.S. as industry weathered the first day of the latest trade scrap. Businesses buying and selling steel and steel products will be forced to charge customers more as […]

A Free Press reader said it was "sickening to watch the Oval Office viciously attack Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy."

IPR’s first-ever State Bird CAWcus in Traverse City turned out a clear favorite to be Michigan’s state bird.