Aamjiwnaang First Nation declared a local state of emergency Thursday due to “ongoing and excessive” discharges of benzene from a nearby chemical plant in Sarnia. 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
A deal was reached Thursday between graduate teaching assistants and Western University, ending a strike that began nearly two weeks ago as students began writing final exams. Read More
The Boy With Two Names, a London Free Press story about an Indigenous family's journey through the Sixties Scoop, is nominated for a national Digital Publishing Award. Read More
More than 100 municipal and First Nations firefighters recently trained together at Sauble Speedway as part of the 31st Bruce County Fire School. Read More
Police say that 1,150 emergency calls were made to 911 dispatchers between 12:15 a.m. and 9:05 a.m. on Monday. Read More
Bruce Power has taken all four Bruce B reactors offline to perform scheduled work on the vacuum building CANDU safety system — a roughly once-a-decade requirement. Read More
The Bruce County Archives is quickly running out of space. The need for space to expand led to a previous misstep by the county in the acquisition of the former Anglican manse building. Now, a few years later, and
despite the careful deaccessioning of some 1,300 artifacts from the collections, the need for space is
greater than ever. (By Pauline Kerr)
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