WHEATLEY – The gas that set off detectors in this Chatham-area town shortly before a massive explosion rocked its main street is familiar to most Canadians for its rotten-egg smell, associated with ...

Residents in the small southwestern Ontario community of Wheatley are being asked to stay away from the scene of Thursday’s large explosion as a result of an ongoing hydrogen sulphide gas leak which ...

An explosion at Elkem Silicones Seveso site south of Lyon sparked a fire in a 600 sqm building. Over 100,000 residents ...

CHATHAM — After more than three years since a gas explosion ravaged the small community’s downtown, Chatham-Kent has officially ended Wheatley’s emergency order. “We can’t ignore the fact that the ...

Ontario’s minister of natural resources and forestry says the province is putting an additional $11 million toward ongoing costs of a 2021 explosion in Wheatley, Ont., that levelled a building and ...

Years after an abandoned gas well caused an explosion that destroyed part of downtown Wheatley, residents can finally start to plan a new future for the area. This week and next, majority of the ...

One month after an explosion rocked downtown Wheatley, the provincial government is providing $2 million in funding to support the community. The money will "help directly impacted eligible businesses ...

In August 2021 the centre of downtown Wheatley, Ontario, exploded, injuring 20 people, and destroying its downtown core. It was during the third hydrogen sulphide leak in as many months. It never ...

WHEATLEY — The same month as Wheatley held a community event to celebrate its recovery from a massive gas explosion four years ago, a hydrogen sulphide gas leak, this one detected Thursday behind the ...

A year before an explosion wrecked several buildings and injured about 20 people in Wheatley, Ont., a retired couple was killed in a blast at their home only 10 kilometres away. The possible culprits ...