Oxford OPP were searching on Friday for a suspect after a hit-and-run crash northeast of Woodstock left a cyclist with serious injuries. Police and paramedics were called to a fail-to-remain collision on Blandford Street in Innerkip at about 11 p.m. Thursday. A vehicle struck a cyclist and fled the scene before officers arrived, Oxford OPP […]
U.S. President Donald Trump took aim at Canada’s dairy industry Friday, signaling he will implement steep tariffs on Canadian dairy. Though the dairy tariff threat is “noise” from the Oval Office, it’s a sign U.S. access to the Canadian market will be a battleground for the Trump in the future, one Canadian agri-food expert says. […]
Police in Elgin County are seeking three men after a carjacking on Highway 401 southwest of London early Friday.
Hospitals in Elgin and Oxford counties are seeing 'serious complications' in children with measles, the area medical officer of health says
A Free Press reader says "Americans appear to have become sheep falling in line with President Donald Trump's new false faith."
A grassroots group of municipal politicians is urging voters to make homelessness a provincial election issue, with the equivalent of a city larger than Sarnia living on the street across Ontario. Calling the encampments that have cropped up in municipalities big and small in recent years a “human rights crisis,” the Ontario Coalition for the […]
Voters in a Southwestern Ontario riding reliant on both the auto and farming industries, say tariffs are on their mind.
Oxford OPP are reminding the public that legitimate businesses and the government will not ask for payment with bitcoin or payment cards after two residents were defrauded of $240,000 in separate scams. Police said they were notified Monday that a resident of Zorra Township is out more than $200,000 after falling for a bitcoin scam, […]
A rural Oxford County township won't back any new wind turbine projects on its turf until the province revises its policy and gives municipalities more information about their impacts. Read More
Just south of Woodstock, known as Canada's dairy capital, an artisan cheesemaker is churning the milk produced at the family’s farm into award-winning cheese. Read More
WOODSTOCK – An auto parts plant here on Monday took the wraps off a $40-million expansion that makes it the second largest employer in Oxford County, behind only Toyota. Read More