Local volunteer Carol Rencheck has been inducted into the June Callwood Circle of Outstanding Volunteers for her work with Huron Shores Hospice in Tiverton. “It is very humbling to receive an award of this kind. June Callwood was such an inspiring woman and did so much for volunteerism and to bring focus on the need […]
In Michigan this week, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will begin applying lampricides to the Cass River in Tuscola and Saginaw counties to kill sea lamprey larvae burrowed in […]
A man is charged in connection with what London police allege was a hate-motivated assault after they say a person was subjected to racist comments and attacked in the city's northwest end.
The deficit-ridden Thames Valley District school board is cutting 42 full-time jobs including positions in senior administration, according to an internal memo released this week.
A man charged in a Southwestern Ontario child luring investigation from last year faces an additional 21 charges
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 […]
A building in London’s SoHo neighbourhood that was built in 1921 and once housed Western University medical students is getting a new lease on life as highly supportive housing units, with the help of an anonymous donor who pledged $4.8 million in capital funding and up to $1.1 million in matching funding in support of […]
HURON – Environment and Climate Change Canada has issued a special air quality statement as smoke from wildfires in the west begins clouding the Huron County area. The June 5 statement encompasses southern Huron County, Bluewater, Goderich, northern Huron County, Wingham and Blyth. According to a press release from Huron Perth public health, wildfire smoke […]
A side-by-side and power tools were allegedly stolen from a Kairshea Avenue property.
The Dungannon Super Pull and Demo Derby is back for another year with organizers promising the biggest and best event yet. “Pullers from the Southwestern Ontario Tractor Pullers Association and the Ontario Truck and Tractor Pullers Association will be putting on an amazing show,” commented Nicole Hardy, Dungannon Super Pull committee member, on June 4. […]
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The public health office at the epicentre of Ontario’s measles outbreak has reported the lowest number of new infections in a week since April.