Category Archives: Local News

Visitor restrictions are in effect at some long term care facilities in the region. The Villa in Ripley tells Bayshore Broadcasting News a gastrointestinal outbreak means the facility is completely cl...

Kincardine Council has given the green light for the tendering process to go ahead for the expansion of the medical clinic, and with a slightly increased budget. There is still strong support for the ...

The South Bruce Grey Health Centre Board of Directors is now accepting applications for Community Advisory Members. Board Chair John Haggarty says it’s the best way a resident of the community c...

Union Gas has recognized that more Grey Bruce families might be having a hard time paying their bills this winter. The utility has doubled its local contribution to the Winter Warmth program and exten...

Owen Sound and The Bruce Grey Catholic School Board are moving into a full-blown Conservation review hearing over the issue of saving the old portion of St. Mary’s High School. A pre-hearing was...

Charges have now been laid in connection with a crash involving a pickup truck and a horse, that resulted in the horse being euthanized. 46 year old Martin Wickens of The Blue Mountains has been charg...

Kincardine’s 2009 budget has received its first round of approval from council. It contains 32 million dollars in combined capital and operating spending, and will mean an extra 40 dollars on th...

The slowdown in the economy doesn’t seem to have any impact on College grads finding work. The Key Performance Indicators survey (KPI) shows 92.4 percent of Georgian College grads found work wit...

The national economy shed more than 61-thousand jobs. That bumped the jobless rate from 7.7 per cent to eight per cent — the highest rate in seven years. Ontario appeared to hold its own despite...

A major upgrade is now underway on the Owen Sound Wastewater Primary treatment plant. It’s a 6.5 million dollar project that includes construction of a new screen complex, and modifications to t...