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Body reportedly pulled from river near Blue Water Bridge
Local firefighters were searching the St. Clair River around the Blue Water Bridge near Sarnia on Thursday amid the reported discovery of a body in the water.
Another local hospital president says recent new funding leaves ‘gap’
South Bruce Grey Health Centre’s president said she appreciates the Ontario government’s recently announced 4.5 per cent base funding increase to her budget. But like other local hospital administrators, she said it still leaves a budget gap created by inflation over the past few years. This year’s base funding for SBGHC increased by $1,808,100, […]
‘Quick-thinking civilian’ saves boater who had fallen overboard: Police
Ontario Provincial Police have publicly thanked a âquick-thinking civilianâ for the rescue of a boater who had fallen overboard in Lake Huron.
London man charged after alert tipster spots gun in waistband, calls police
A London man is facing 10 charges, weapons offences among them, after a downtown arrest turned up guns including a sawed-off shotgun and more than $13,000 in illegal drugs.
Walk for Wenjack on August 15 in Cape Croker Park
On Thursday, Aug. 15, at Cape Croker Park in Neyaashiinigmiing, people will gather to Walk for Wenjack. Bruce County and its community partners are hosting the fundraising and awareness-raising event named in memory of Chanie Wenjack who, in 1966, ran away from Cecilia Jeffrey Residential School in Kenora, Ontario. He walked for 36 hours along […]
Stark uptick in deadly motorcycle crashes continues here, across Ontario
Seven motorcyclists have died on roads in the wider London region in the last two months alone, a troubling trend Ontario Provincial Police say reflects a deadly toll provincewide. The most recent death on local Ontario Provincial Police-patrolled roads happened Aug. 1 around 8:15 a.m. when a motorcycle collided with a pickup truck at the […]
Missed calls, forgotten instructions: Inside an oil spill cleanup on Toronto waterways | Great Lakes Now
By Emma McIntosh, The Narwhal
The Great Lakes News Collaborative includes Bridge Michigan; Circle of Blue; Great Lakes Now at Detroit Public Television; Michigan Public, Michigan’s NPR News Leader; and The Narwhal who work together to bring audiences news and information about the impact of climate change, pollution, and aging infrastructure on the Great Lakes and drinking water.
‘Sweet and thoughtful’: Mom mourns girl, 7, swept away in Thames River
A “sweet and thoughtful” little girl, Anna Bielli loved to sing and share â often even saving half her sandwich for her mother. Taken from her by the Thames River in London, Karen Fermill says she now longs to give her seven-year-old daughter a final hug. The bereaved London woman found out from police that […]
Two separate crashes, eight hurt within 24 hours in Elgin County
Two long weekend collisions in Elgin County sent eight people to hospital in less than a day, police say. in a series of social media posts Sunday evening and early Monday, Ontario Provincial Police in Elgin County warned first of an investigation into a collision Sunday between a vehicle and a motorcycle on Quaker Road […]
London searchers find remains believed to that of girl lost in river
Police said the investigation has now been reassigned to the department’s major crimes division, which will be helping the coroner’s office