Category Archives: Local News

Members of OPSEU will use their lunch hours today to stage information pickets in 25 communities across the province — including Owen Sound. The pickets will be held outside ServiceOntario offic...

A Meaford man faces assault and threatening charges after an altercation at the Georgian Apartments near Stone Tree just south of Owen Sound. Several Grey County OPP officers went to the home around 9...

Historical artifacts from the Walkerton jail have been returned to Bruce County. We told you first last month about the two dozen artifacts that were removed by the province after it closed the jail. ...

Owen Sound Council has decided to try something different in the hope of selling off surplus properties. Right now, Owen Sound has over 160 surplus properties including 15 commercial sites and 34 resi...

Fire departments across Bruce, Grey and Huron Counties are now scrambling to find a new dispatch service. The Hanover Police Board has finalized its decision to end its dispatch service at the end of ...

The only NDP leadership hopeful to visit southwestern Ontario sees the Goderich Recovery as a model for what will need to be done in Canada when he sits as Prime Minister. Ottawa-area MP Paul Dewar...

Bruce Grey Owen Sound MPP Bill Walker says the Drummond report has exposed Ontarios economic crisis — as being much more severe than previously disclosed. Walker says the report aims to reverse ...

At least one physician in Owen Sound supports the methadone clinic in the City. Doctor John Wright says the clinic helps its clients stay out of jail and allows them to become a contributing member of...

Georgian Bluffs has agreed to extend their current recreation agreement with the City of Owen Sound. Although council originally voted against extending the deal, Mayor Al Barfoot says they’ve a...

Recreation and Tourism were the hot topics at the latest round of Kincardine budget talks. At Wednesday’s Council meeting, each department head laid out their proposed budgets for 2012. While th...