Tag: Local News
Bruce Power says refurbished Unit 6 back online
Bruce Power’s Unit 6 nuclear reactor was re-connected to Ontario’s electricity grid following more than three years of refurbishment, the company announced Friday. The Major Component Replacement outage began in January 2020 and was completed ahead of schedule, a company news release said. By replacing and upgrading key equipment, the reactor’s life will be extended […]
Disappearance of their fathers 28 years ago still haunts their kids
Victoria Weidemann continues to wonder what happened to her dad and his buddy when they went fishing one evening in 1995 and never returned. Their disappearance 28 years ago, the discovery of their partly submerged canoe off Saugeen Shores, two paddles and two life-jackets in Lake Huron, suggested the worst. But their bodies were never […]
London region’s unemployment rate nudged up in August, but so did its population and workforce, Statistics Canada reported Friday.
The London region’s unemployment rate has nudged up, but so did its population and the number of people working or looking for jobs, just-released figures show. The Statistics Canada numbers for August, made public Friday, show the local unemployment rate jumped by rough a half of a percentage point to 5.6 per cent – up […]
Police charge Saugeen First Nation man after reports of gunshots
Grey Bruce OPP charged a Saugeen First Nation resident after investigating two incidents of gunshots heard in the area. The 37-year-old man was charged with possession of a firearm contrary to a probation order and was held in custody for a bail hearing in Walkerton. A police news release said Grey Bruce OPP officers executed […]
Two dead in London apartment; police downplay ‘risk to public safety’
London police are downplaying any ongoing threat to public safety after two people were found dead in a west-end apartment. It was about 4 p.m. Thursday when police were called to an apartment building in the 500-block of Proudfoot Lane, in the city’s Westmount neighbourhood. A dead man and woman were found inside. The pair […]