Category Archives: Local News

A couple of buses will leave Owen Sound and Walkerton on Tuesday morning. They are headed to Queens Park so residents can voice their opposition to the province’s plan to close two local jails. ...

The Saugeen Shores Fire services has a young, dedicated force that stays on the job longer. That has resulted in the local department winning an award from the Volunteer Firefighter Insurance Service ...

The town of Saugeen Shores has some surplus land for sale and it could result in an expansion of the Saugeen Memorial Hospital. Mayor Mike Smith says the land in question is at 21 Grey Street North in...

MP’s including Conservatives Ben Lobb of Huron-Bruce and Larry Miller of Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound get back to work on Parliament Hill later this week — exactly one month after Canadians voted...

The Bluewater District School library system is not going the same route as what happened in the Windsor area. The Windsor-Essex Catholic District School Board has laid off most of its library technic...

Brockton is partnering with the Bluewater Wood Alliance, and has contributed 35 hundred dollars to the cause. The Alliance is a new initiative designed to improve the competitive position of the local...

Hanover Councillors are going high tech. The town is moving towards a paperless council system and Councillors are trading in their paper agendas for iPads. Clerk Treasure Christine Walker says counci...

The Grey Bruce Health Unit is asking for your help, in finding the owner of two dogs involved in a biting incident that occurred north of Nodwell Park on the Woodland Trail in Port Elgin. Thursday at ...

As diversity month comes to a conclusion, there will be another celebration today in Owen Sound. Owen Sound’s Pride Picnic will take place at Harrison Park — and a special book will be lau...

A Retirement Dinner and Tribute was held in honour of Bill Murdoch, MPP for Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound on Friday night. The event was a complete sell-out with over 250 in attendance PC Leader Tom Hudak, un...