Londoners could be in store for the worst flooding in seven years as up to 75 millimetres of rain is expected to fall by early Thursday, the Upper Thames River Conservation Authority warns. Forecasts are predicting between 30 and 75 millimetres of rain across the Upper Thames watershed, the authority said in a flood warning […]

Lanes in both directions of Highway 402 were closed Wednesday morning as Ontario Provincial Police officers carried out a “sudden death investigation,” officials said. The highway was closed between Nauvoo and Forest roads, according to Lambton OPP. It’s part of a morning of havoc on 400-series highways across the storm-hit London region. “It has caused […]

St. Patrick’s Day isn’t until Monday, but that didn’t stop thousands of people from getting an early start on Irish-themed celebration Saturday. The German Club on Cove Road hosted Tis All Irish, an all-day event organized by the London Irish cultural Society and London Irish Folk Club, that drew around 600 people to the Cove […]

It’s been five years since COVID-19 arrived in the London area in March 2020. We look back at LFP images from those first few months, when everything closed down due to the coronavirus: mhensen@postmedia.com druttan@postmedia.com

Ajay Ray carved out a sterling reputation both as a professor and chairperson of Western University’s chemical and biochemical engineering department. But last November, after two decades at the university, he was suddenly off the university’s payroll, retired from his teaching post at age 64. At the same time he was found guilty of sexually […]