Category Archives: Local News

Earth Day coincided this year with an award for the Grey Bruce Health Unit. The Canada Green Building Council has awarded the Health Unit the Gold Standard in Leadership in Energy and Environmental De...

She Rolled Up the Rim, and she won. Tara Lee of Port Elgin is now the proud owner of a brand new Toyota Venza, the biggest prize in the annual Roll Up The Rim to Win contest at Tim Horton’s. Lee...

The difficult task of narrowing a list of 600 to 21 in Saugeen Shores is complete. The Chamber of Commerce is out with its Top Three Nominees for Business Excellence Awards list in each of the seven c...

Five Owen Sound teens — including two who were in the trunk of a car — are recovering from injuries after a two vehicle crash. A red four door Honda collided with another vehicle at 8th St...

Kincardine Council has decided which infrastructure projects it will apply for federal funding. From the four billion dollar Infrastructure Stimulus Fund, Council is hoping to get 2.75 million dollars...

Wind farms continue to be a controversial topic in the region. Now, a former dean of medicine at University of Western Ontario wants the province to conduct more studies into the health effects of win...

After 8 months in the political wilderness, Bruce Grey Owen Sound MPP Bill Murdoch is returning to the Progressive Conservative fold. Murdoch was turfed from the caucus last September after suggesting...

Kincardine Council is trying to calm the controversy surrounding what kind of beer ends up being served at this summer’s Tiverton Old Boys and Girls Reunion. Management at locally-based Steelbac...

There has been some outside interest in locating a hotel in Hanover. Councilor Bob White says Hanover is ready for one, noting there is a real need. Hanover is actively pursuing this possibility throu...

West Hill Collegiate in Owen Sound will be sending its team of to the Ontario Envirothon Championships near Cambridge next month. That school emerged as the winner at the Grey Bruce Envirothon competi...