Ontario Provincial Police say they're investigating a reported romance scam that cost someone in Elgin County – they don't say whom – more than $2 million. A staggering loss, it's far from the first in the region involving such a scam. LFP reporter Noah Brennan breaks down what you need to know about romance rip-offs. Read More
He’s a Queen’s Park rookie, but Southwestern Ontario’s newest legislator is no stranger to politics. Ellwood Shreve breaks down five things to know about MPP-elect Steve Pinsonneault, who won Thursday’s Lambton-Kent-Middlesex byelection. Read More
In what is being described by some as a surprise weekend announcement, Education Minister Stephen Lecce said the province is restricting cellphone use in Ontario’s classrooms and banning vaping on school property. Read More
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