Tag: investigation
Chequamegon Bay Superfund site: History, environmental impact and its importance to Indigenous communities
Chequamegon Bay plays a significant role in our human lives, including past residents like the Huron and Ottawa; and current residents, the Ojibwe-Anishinaabeg, who have gathered and made history there for a millennia. An oblong, shallow bay (61 feet at the deepest point), on the south shore of Lake Superior, the water also holds dark history as a federal Superfund site.
Whitmer subsidy record: Companies get $1 billion; jobs fall short of promises
Since Gretchen Whitmer became governor, Michigan has given $995 million to companies that promised to create 65,000 jobs. Theyâve produced 13,000 â a rate of $76,000 per job, a Bridge investigation finds….
81-year-old dead after wrong-way collision on Hwy. 401
Ontario Provincial Police said they were investigating after an 81-year-old from Woodstock died in a two-vehicle crash involving a passenger vehicle and a commercial vehicle along Hwy 401 in Oxford County. Emergency crews were called at about 11:50 p.m. on Saturday to the two-vehicle crash in the eastbound lanes of the 401, near the Mill […]
Probe ongoing after body pulled from Thames River near downtown
A body was pulled from the Thames River in the area of Horton Street at Ridout Street on Saturday morning, police said. The London Fire Department was called to Thames Park just after 6 a.m. following reports of an individual in the water just south of downtown, police said. The body was removed from the […]
Ohio EPA issues special advisory regarding Luckey water
Hours after The Blade published an investigation Friday detailing how testing by the newspaper found high levels of radioactivity in the groundwater of the village of Luckey, the Ohio EPA issued a special “citizen advisory,” saying that the agency and the Ohio Department of Health would start sampling in the community next week.