“They saved a life today, no question," an OPP officer said of two people who pulled a trapped Bracebridge pilot from the flaming wreckage.
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A Southwestern Ontario municipality has rejected a proposed wind turbine project after politicians received a loud negative response from many residents.
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An Oxford County couple is raising concerns about road safety after a dump truck tipped over at the edge of their rural home’s driveway.
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A pedestrian is dead in Ingersoll after being struck by a train, Ontario Provincial Police in Oxford County said on Monday morning. Police closed Mutual Street North (between Carnegie Street and Wilson Street) and Thames Street South (between Carnegie Street and Oxford Lane) amid the investigation and the OPP was warning drivers to avoid the […]
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A Cambridge resident faces charges, including of operating a vehicle while impaired, following a weekend car-train collision in Oxford County, police say. The Saturday morning collision occurred about 5:30 a.m. in Blandford-Blenheim, a largely rural township northeast of Woodstock, Ontario Provincial Police said. Police said a 38-year-old had minor injuries from the collision and was […]
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Charges have been laid after London police responded to a report of a man with a gun in the city’s north end early Tuesday, police say. At around 1 a.m., a group of men was in a parking garage in the 700 block of Kipps Lane, near the intersection of Adelaide Street North, when they […]
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One man is dead and another was taken to hospital following a crash Thursday night west of Woodstock. Two vehicles collided in Zorra Township shortly before 11 p.m. on Road 68 between the 45th Line and Zorra-East Zorra Tavistock Line, Oxford OPP said. One of the drivers, a 27-year-old Ingersoll man, died at the scene […]
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Just when it didn’t seem possible for Woodstock’s embattled former mayor to be in more hot water, Trevor Birtch was back in a London courtroom Thursday on trial for charges related to his complicated love life.
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Woodstock's former mayor was sentenced to a 90-day conditional sentence, 12 months of probation and a 12-month driving ban.
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With approved plans for a massive new subdivision in Thamesford, Queen’s Park is shelling out $23.5 million for a new elementary school in a village primed for exponential growth.
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Oxford County is getting nearly $7 million from Queen’s Park to help build and maintain infrastructure to support potential construction of nearly 4,800 homes.
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A massive development that would add more than 1,000 homes, a school and two commercial blocks in a rural community northeast of London has been pushed ahead by local politicians.