Concerned about rising student absenteeism post-pandemic, the Thames Valley District school board has created an internal working group to target the problem. One way the board plans to respond is with a district-wide campaign, including a communication strategy, designed to create awareness about the issue and improve attendance rates. Read More
An investigation is underway into a Sunday evening freight train fire in the city's core that caused about $35,000 damage to five rail cars and a downtown building and lit up social media. But it remains to be seen what sparked the blaze, an occurrence that happens about once a week on average in Canada. Our Jennifer Bieman reports Read More
Classes cancelled, a state of emergency declared, power grid preparations and hand-wringing about crowds. It’s all eyes on April 8, with the countdown on to a rare total solar eclipse whose path of totality will skirt Southwestern Ontario. Momentous, but lasting mere minutes at its height, it promises a collision of science and hype. Our Jennifer Bieman reports. Read More
A total solar eclipse of the sun will make the sky go dark over Southwestern Ontario, and far beyond, for a few minutes on April 8. Preparations are underway for the mid-afternoon phenomenon, including the Thames Valley and London Catholic school boards rescheduling a professional activity day to that Monday, so kids will be home when the suns disappears. Our Beatriz Baleeiro looks up – way up – to find everything you need to know about the looming eclipse Read More
London police have joined a chorus of police forces in Ontario urging vehicle owners to keep their key fobs in Faraday bags to combat auto thefts. So, what exactly are these bags and how do they work? Read More
One of Canada's richest farm belts, whose land and climate make it able to produce almost anything that grows in Canada, Southwestern Ontario is also fertile ground for rising farmland prices. Brian Williams reports on how the region stacks up in the latest farmland value report by lender Farm Credit Canada. Read More
Four people were killed in separate collisions on back-to-back days this week in Huron County, a vast farm belt north of London that's no stranger to deadly crashes, especially during the winter when driving can be treacherous. A chronology of recent serious collisions in Huron: Read More
After home sales jumped by nearly 30 per cent in January compared to the same month in 2023, the trend continued into February, along with an rebound in average home sales prices, newly released figures show. Read More
As Londoners face the likely prospect of an 8.7 per cent property tax increase in 2024, a roundup of tax rates in other Southwestern Ontario communities suggests residents in the region's largest city are getting hit far harder in the pocketbook by their local government, which one expert suggests makes
On a day when many deliberately refused to speak his name, from the sentencing judge on down, mass murderer Nathaniel Veltman's crimes – the murder of four members of a London Muslim family, and the attempted murder of a fifth – were denounced Thursday as community and wider reaction poured in to the judge's finding that Veltman committed terrorism. He was sentenced to 25 years in prison with no chance of parole, both for the murders and the attempted murder. Jack Moulton reports. Read More
Nathaniel Veltman was already on his knees on the ground beside the heavily damaged pickup truck, with his hands on top of his head, when London police caught up to him in the Cherryhill Village Mall parking lot. Read More