A six-year-old boy was rescued from Lake Huron after drifting away from shore on what Ontario Provincial Police described as an “inflatable ring.” The child, who police said was wearing a “personal floatation device,” drifted from shore near Black’s Point Beach, south of Goderich, on Monday just after noon, police said. The boy was located […]

Provincial police closed a Southwestern Ontario beach after a swimmer went missing in Lake Erie over the weekend. Emergency crews were called Sunday shortly after 3 p.m. to Port Burwell beach for a report of two swimmers in distress, Elgin OPP said. One swimmer was pulled to safety and taken to hospital with non-life threatening […]

A passenger on a London Transit bus suffered serious injuries when it collided with a London police cruiser in downtown London on Wednesday. The collision involving the bus and the marked police cruiser occurred at about 1:50 p.m. in the area of Queens Avenue and Talbot Street, London police said. One passenger on the bus […]

Police believe they caught the person responsible for the theft of electrical equipment and wiring from Graceland Festival Grounds, home of Lucknow’s Music in the Fields (LMITF). On March 16, a concerned citizen alerted LMITF organizers to the break-in of multiple storage units located at the Walter Street property, which is owned by the Lucknow […]

Police are investigating after a rainbow Pride flag was damaged at a Norwich elementary school – the second such act of vandalism in just over a week in the Oxford County town, which has a fraught history with LGBTQ symbols. Two people damaged the flag at Emily Stowe elementary school on Jerdon Street shortly after midnight […]

The Township of Huron-Kinloss is joining the Walkerton community in mourning the loss of a Walkerton teacher and four students who died as a result of a crash near London on Friday. “The Township of Huron-Kinloss has lowered its flags to half-mast in heartfelt solidarity with our neighbours in Brockton following the tragic motor vehicle […]

Messages of condolences have poured onto social media in honour of the four teenage girls killed along with their teacher/coach in a Friday afternoon crash northeast of London as details of the victims became known. Two of the four teenage girls killed in the crash were identified by their softball team as Rowan McLeod and […]