Tag: Chatham-Kent
Big rig crash closes rural road, sends driver to hospital: Police
A driver was taken to hospital after a crash on a Huron County road, Ontario Provincial Police say. Just before 5 a.m. Wednesday, OPP say that a vehicle collision resulted in the closure of Donnybrook Line between Bruce Road 86 and Zion Road, which is about 10 kilometres northwest of Wingham. A photo published online […]
New automated plate scanner helps recover stolen SUV in Owen Sound
The Owen Sound Police Service’s automated licence plate recognition technology (A.L.P.R) helped locate and recover a stolen 2023 Nissan Murano from the Chatham-Kent area this past week. According to a media release, officers utilized the A.L.P.R. to locate the vehicle that had been reported stolen to the Chatham-Kent Police Service in August. The Owen Sound […]
Brews News: Local offerings in convenience stores disappointing
Convenience comes with a cost. Donât we know it in Ontario.
London city council poised to stop issuing proclamations, again
Four years after restarting the long-dormant process, London politicians already have lost their appetite for proclamations, with past controversies top of mind.
Accused killer pleads to lesser charge in Southwestern Ontario man’s death
A man originally charged with murder in the death of a Tilbury resident has pleaded guilty to a lesser charge.
Man seriously injured in east-end shooting, suspect at large: London police
Several bullet holes were visible in the front door of a unit in an public housing complex where a man was shot Wednesday afternoon. Emergency crews responded around 4:20 p.m. to a report of possible gunfire at a home on Boullee Street, north of Cheapside Street, where a man with a gunshot wound was taken […]
Cucumber harvest looks promising with an early start
Most are shipped to the US for processing
Police lay charges in hit-and-run that killed pedestrian
A 27-year-old Wallaceburg resident is charged after a Walpole Island First Nation resident was struck by a vehicle and killed, Ontario Provincial Police say. OPP officials in Lambton County say it was about 3 a.m. on Aug. 25 when a pedestrian was struck by a vehicle that then fled the scene. The pedestrian, a 47-year-old […]
Police probe ongoing after driver, 89, killed in rural crash
An elderly person from West Lorne was killed in a crash in Southwold Township, southwest of St. Thomas, police say.
Men take bear cub on 10-hour ride to Windsor, feed it Taco Bell
The director of an animal rescue charity in Chatham-Kent is calling on people to seek local support for injured wildlife after two men picked up a black bear cub in northern Ontario and took it on a 10-hour drive south in their vehicle. The executive director of Chatham-Kent’s Pet and Wildlife Rescue Centre says her […]