Provincial police urged drivers in the London region to stay off the roads as blowing snow created white-out conditions while the largest local hospital prepared for a crush of injured patients Saturday afternoon. OPP in Middlesex, Huron and Perth counties asked drivers to avoid unnecessary travel with flurries and gusting winds sending snow flying across […]

Support for Ukraine in its war with Russia again has thrust London into the global military arena, with the Canadian federal government pledging to send more locally made light armoured vehicles. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made a sweeping pledge of ongoing support for Ukraine, which this week marked the third anniversary of its invasion by […]

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 […]

Measles cases have quadrupled in one area east of London and more than doubled in a second area since outbreaks were declared two weeks ago, health officials said Tuesday. There are nearly 50 cases in several counties, doctors for two area health units said at a virtual news conference. Ninh Tran, medical officer of health […]