Tag: Local News
Holiday donations ease 2025 uncertainty for Ark Aid homeless shelter, for now
2024 has ended and, with that, the funding for homeless shelter beds being run at Ark Aid Street Mission is up in the air
Southwestern Ontario resident defrauded out of $320K in gold, cash
A Southwestern Ontario resident lost $320,000 in cash and gold in an online scam, provincial police say.
Q+A: Mayor Josh Morgan looks ahead to London’s 2025 challenges
There has been no shortage of issues for Mayor Josh Morgan to tackle, from housing and homelessness, to an exploding population, and property tax hikes
Number of digital items borrowed at London libraries hit 1M in 2024
Borrowers set a new record for the number of digital items (ebooks, audiobooks and magazines) they checked out from the London Public Library, surpassing the one-million mark in 2024.
For London renters, 2025 arrives with reasons for optimism
Planning to move to a new place in 2025? Here are bits of information to help you with your search.
‘I got in a tussle’: Man recounts stabbing that led to London honour
Mike Bessegato was on his lunch break grabbing a few items at a downtown London grocery store when he witnessed a clerk tussling with a much younger man.
Driver dies, cattle injured in crash near Clinton: OPP
A 29-year-old from West Elgin faces seven charges after an incident resulted in a shelter-in-place advisory overnight in the town southeast of St. Thomas.
A look back at those we lost in the London region in 2024
We’re reflecting on 2024 and some of the notable residents of the London region who passed away over the past 12 months.
London police notch another perfect year for clearing homicides
London police laid charges in all of the cityâs homicides in 2024, the sixth straight year the force has achieved a perfect clearance rate for killings. There were six homicides last year in London, down from eight the previous year, and just below the 10-year average of 6.2 deaths per year. Five men, one woman […]
GALLERY: LFP’s top photos of 2024, Part 2
Take a look back at 2024 in and around London through the lens of LFP photojournalist Derek Ruttan