Category Archives: Local News

Bruce Power has taken the first steps in re-jigging how they respond to emergencies. In the weeks following the two natural disasters that caused extensive damage to the Fukushima complex in Japan, ou...

Cruise Nights are back in Hanover. Every first and third Wednesday from now until the end of September — a portion of the parking lot at Grant’s Your Independent Grocer will transform into...

Kincardine Firefighters responded to several calls in the past week including a huge barn fire. The blaze hit a large barn on Bruce county road 20 east of Highway 21 about 6 AM on Saturday. Seven truc...

Fresh off a weekend of open house meetings on water meters for Wiarton and Amabel-Sauble, the program has come to a resounding halt. Expected grant money now isn’t coming. South Bruce Peninsula ...

Owen Sound Fire responded to a call at Miller’s Recycling in the Industrial park. The Fire Department was called Tuesday to extinguish a fire that was burning on a trailer of compacted garbage. ...

Walkerton is in need of a new Fire Chief. Michael Rozario has resigned to take on a deputy fire chief position in Bradford West Gwillimbury. In the meantime, Deputy Fire Chief Glen Wilhelm has been pr...

Picket lines are up today outside the Owen Sound office of Canada Post. The Crown Corporation made the decision to lockout the workers in urban areas, affecting 48 thousand employees. The lockout come...

The Annual General Meeting for the Friends of the Library is set to go Thursday at the Port Elgin Library . The executive has served their term, and the nominating committee is looking to fill various...

It’s a summer of discontent, for opponents of those giant wind turbines in Ontario. Over the next few weeks, Wind Concerns Ontario President John Laforet is busy with meetings in several centres...

Regional Tourism Organization 7 (RTO7) is holding a series of meetings to update stakeholders on its plans for its first fiscal year of operations. The RTO7 is a non profit organization that mandates ...