Dresden

• Dresden locals, First Nations take landfill fight to Queen’s Park

  The chair of a local advocacy group says the community feels betrayed by the decision to cancel an environmental assessment for the landfill just north of Dresden, Ont.

  Canada

  May 13, 2025
  
• Suspected Dresden hostage taker was likely ‘confused’ lone wolf, German authorities say

  German authorities said they had ended a suspected hostage-taking in the eastern city of Dresden on Saturday by what appeared to be a psychologically confused man acting alone.

  World

  Dec 10, 2022
  
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• Chatham-Kent police seizes $93,000 worth of drugs, guns

  Police say officials seized two semi-automatic shotguns, a rifle, 114 grams of cocaine, 128.8 grams of fentanyl and over 512 grams of meth. 

  Canada

  Oct 1, 2022
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• Uncle Tom’s Cabin Historic Site in Dresden, Ont. reopens for 2022 season

  A historic site southwest of London, Ont., dedicated to preserving a significant part of Canada's Black history has reopened for the summer 2022 season.

  Canada

  May 23, 2022
• Dresden woman identified as victim in fatal Lambton County crash

  On Sept. 10, Lambton OPP and Lambton County Emergency Medical Services (EMS) responded to a two-vehicle collision at the intersection of Marthaville Road and Aberfeldy Line.

  Crime

  Sep 22, 2021
• Dresden museum thieves smash display case with axe in dramatic CCTV footage

  The camera footage showed two men breaking into Dresden's Green Vault museum through a baroque grilled window.

  World

  Nov 26, 2019
• Thieves nab ‘priceless’ jewels from one of world’s oldest museums

  German officials said it would be impossible to sell the three "priceless'' sets of jewelry.

  World

  Nov 25, 2019
• German city declares ‘Nazi emergency’ via symbolic resolution

  Dresden is located in the state of Saxony, where the far-right Alternative for Deutschland (AfD) made strong gains in this year’s regional election. 

  World

  Nov 3, 2019
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• Drunk U.S. tourist punched after giving ‘Heil Hitler’ salutes in Germany

  Police say a drunken American man was punched by a passer-by as he gave the stiff-armed Nazi salute multiple times in downtown Dresden.

  Aug 13, 2017
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• Ex-German cop convicted of killing, dismembering man he met on cannibal website

  A former German police officer was sentenced to almost nine years in prison Tuesday for killing a man he met on an internet site devoted to cannibalism

  Crime

  Dec 13, 2016