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To the small-town hospital in Ingersoll, home to the auto assembly plant that had employed most of its members, the union local donated $10,000. Another $5,000, it gave to an inter-faith charity that helps the needy in the Southwestern Ontario community, including with Christmas hampers. The same amount it shared with Stronger Together Ingersoll Community […]

FedDev Ontario, the federal economic development agency, is providing $5 million in loans to three area manufacturers.

GM bet on an electric future for its now-idled Ingersoll plant. How to plug their lives back in is the question for 1,100 laid-off workers.

From EV investment booms to painful plant closures, history offers cautions.

While walking through the halls of Ingersoll’s high school, it doesn't take long to find a display honouring the alumnus about to head to the moon.

Students at Ingersoll District Collegiate Institute are marking the Artemis II launch with space-themed activities.

Before Wednesday’s historic launch of the Artemis II, the Canadian Space Agency broadcast a recorded message from Jeremy Hansen, the Southwestern Ontario astronaut who is a member of the crew on the 10-day mission around the moon. Here’s what the 50-year-old Ingersoll native said in comments that mixed both French and English. “What an honour […]

As Ingersoll native Jeremy Hansen rocketed into space, one farmer from another Southwestern Ontario town was there to capture it all. Artemis II marks the first crewed flight around the moon in more than 50 years, with Hansen making history on the 10-day journey as the first non-American to go to deep space. And Wednesday’s […]

Ingersoll astronaut Jeremy Hansen and his colleague aboard the Artemis II are set on Monday to make human history as they reach a point farther than anyone has ever travelled from Earth, according to NASA. Hansen, a 50-year-old Ingersoll District collegiate institute alumnus, is one of four astronauts on the mission, completing a journey that […]

Donald Trump is pretty happy with Canada, at least when it comes to space exploration. Southwestern Ontario astronaut Jeremy Hansen – born in London, raised in Ailsa Craig and Ingersoll – was in contact with the U.S. president during the Artemis II mission on Monday evening after Hansen and his American crewmates circled around the […]