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A 20 year-old London man has been charged with the murder of David Oliver in 2020.  Oliver was reported missing on July 31, 2020 and just two days later, his body was found a short distance away from his red Dodge Ram pick-up truck. His body was found Aug. 2, 2020 near the former army camp. The OPP and the

Heather Wright/The Independent Chatham-Kent Mayor Darrin Canniff is downplaying the meetings he had with consultants and executives from York 1 Environmental Waste Services as far back as 2019. That’s the company which purchased the former Dresden dump in 2022 and now hopes to build a construction waste recycling center and rebuild the landfill to use. As many as 700 trucks

One person was seriously injured in an accident in Warwick Township. Lambton and Middlesex OPP were called to Egremont Road on the edge of Lambton County around 1 pm Tuesday along with paramedics and Warwick Township firefighters after a two vehicle crash. Police say one person was taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries. Egremont between Wisbeach and Sexton Road was

Heather Wright/The Independent Debb Pitel still thinks about what might have been had she trusted her gut. Pitel’s son, Tyler, died by suicide at the age of 15 in 2001. It devastated her family and drove her to write about suicide and to develop a booklet featuring local mental health services called No One Stands Alone. On World Suicide Awareness

A London woman is facing four charges after a number of people called Lambton OPP about an erratic driver on Egremont Road in Warwick Township. Lambton OPP received a number of calls Sept. 8, just before 10:30 am, about an driver on Egremont Road. Police stopped the car and arrested a 59 year-old London woman and issued a 90 day

Lambton OPP have laid a charge in a hit and run death on Walpole Island. On Aug. 25, around 3 am, Lambton OPP were called to an accident between a vehicle and pedestrian. Police said the vehicle left the scene. A 47 year-old Walpole Island First Nation was pronounced dead at the scene. On Aug. 30, police arrested a 27

Three people are facing drug trafficking charges after a traffic stop in Lambton Shores early Friday morning. Lambton OPP say members of the Street Crimes Unit and the Strategic Operations Intelligence Unit as well as the Anishinabek Police stopped a car on Arkona Road just after 1 am Friday. Three people were taken into custody and police seized fentanyl and

Sarnia Police have charged three people in the disappearance and murder of a Sarnia man. Ten months ago, Bradley Ogilvie’s family called police to say the man was missing. The family and police actively searched for Ogilvie . Friday, on what would have been Ogilvie’s 42nd birthday, police arrested three people and charged them with first degree murder. Robin Alexander

A 25 year-old has been charged after a stabbing in Wyoming. Lambton OPP were called to a home on Niagara Street in Wyoming Sept. 2 around 3 in the morning after getting reports of an assault. When they arrived officers found a person had been assaulted with an edged weapon but had sustained minor injuries. Cain Ryan, 25, of Plympton-Wyoming

A Toronto area lawyer is calling on the province to send homelessness funding directly to urban municipalities instead of county governments. And he’s citing some of the issues Sarnia is having with Lambton County Council as evidence county councils are ” standing in the way of efforts by Ontario’s urban municipalities to provide the ‘truly accessible’ accommodation which the courts

INEOS Styrolutions, the Aamjiwaang First Nation and the federal and provincial environment ministries have come to an agreement of how to meet the new federal benzene storage rules. May 1 – more than two weeks after high levels of benzene in the air sickened members of the the Aamjiwnaang First Nation – the Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks,

Warwick hosts business event The head of the Sarnia-Lambton Chamber of Commerce wants to make sure rural businesses don’t feel forgotten. The Chamber rolled into Watford Thursday evening for a mixer, hoping to bring Sarnia business people to the Warwick Township community to see what they have on offer. And Carrie McEachran hoped to attract new chamber members from Watford.