Category Archives: Local News

Georgian Bluffs residents will soon have a new provider of animal control services. The Owen Sound Animal Shelter will start a contract with the township effective May 1st. The Keppel Creek Animal She...

Students and Staff at Georgian College in Owen Sound will be taking out the trash today. They will be picking up litter around the 8th Street East campus from 11 AM till Noon today to mark the 40th an...

A well known crop input co-op is branching out to help Midwestern Ontario farmers harvest a new kind of crop — the sun. Agris Co-operative is launching the Agris Solar Co-operative — a new...

The Grey Bruce Health Unit will be taking an up close and personal use of the culture and impact of alcohol use in the two counties. The special seminar takes place this afternoon and will feature pre...

Rural residents will feel the impact if the province continues with its proposed changes to the drug plan. That is the feeling of Rosanne Currie — the co-owner of Pellow Pharmacy in Walkerton. T...

The latest from the Rahim Jaffer/Helena Guergis saga is federal paperwork showing Jaffer’s consulting firm was looking for 100 million dollars in federal cash for an environmental project that w...

The Ontario Minister of Health Promotion is coming to Owen Sound. Margarett Best will be the keynote speaker at a conference next month to launch the province’s Healthy Communities initiative in...

Georgian College has been named one of Canada’s Greenest employers of 2010. Editors of Canada’s Top 100 Employers selected the College at Barrie, Owen Sound, Orillia and Midland because of...

Owen Sound is looking at future strategies for the Billy Bishop Regional Airport. Council has issued a request for proposals for ownership or a lease of the airport. The City has been looking for stra...

The trial for two Wingham-area people charged with counselling and conspiracy to commit murder moves into its third day on Thursday. An undercover police officer who posed as a hitman was cross-examin...