Owen Sound Sun Times

Unmet housing need stands out most in the 2025 Grey-Bruce figures, United Way's Francesca Dobbyn said.

The Erie Otters earned their first regulation win in 2026 with an 8-3 trouncing of the Owen Sound Attack Wednesday night.

Whether the members of the audience are fans of Shakespeare or not, the director of Owen Sound Little Theatre's next production expects everyone who comes out to see the show will enjoy it. Michael Johnston doesn't consider himself to be a fan of the Bard's works, but after the experience he has had directing the [...]

Nancy Akins said her opinion that Sauble Falls Parkway is unsafe in the area of Six Street North was reinforced after a fatal collision in the area.

'With a 2.4-km stretch of sand beach now renamed Saugeen Beach, the broader identity of the area is entering a period of transition and redefinition.' Danielle Edwards, South Bruce Peninsula economic development director

Georgian Bay Folk Society being directed to other funding opportunities like the MAT tax

The Just Say Yes event enables couples to get married quickly and cheaply, without sacrificing the magic of matrimony.

Some users are reporting higher water bills, which may be due to more accurate meters

Project to be added to city's Canada Helps page for those wishing to donate

The region's unemployment rate nearly reached five per cent in January. The Four County Labour Market Planning Board reported this past Friday that unemployment in the Stratford-Bruce Peninsula economic area increased by 0.9 percentage points to 4.9 per cent last month. The regional unemployment rate still remains significantly lower than the rest of Ontario, which [...]

Owen Sound council gave final approval to the following business licences at its meeting on Monday: - The Vintage Magpie, a home decor business at 777 2nd Ave. E. - Cheo Tamingang Jude Ngwa is the new owner of Jude's African Caribbean Groceries/Beauty, a retail fashion and Caribbean grocery store at 154 10th St. E. [...]

Transit run between Owen Sound and Guelph will continue until at least the end of August

The Owen Sound Oldtimers Crunch men's hockey team won gold at the Ontario 55+ Winter Games in Huntsville earlier this month. The Owen Sound team won in the men's 65+ division with a 6-0 shutout victory over Barrie Lumber in the gold-medal game. The Huntsville Wolves took the bronze medal in the competition. Owen Sound [...]

Owen Sound only managed to secure one out of a possible six points while out east, but didn't lose any ground in the Western Conference standings.

There are seminars to help people recognize frauds and scams, there are meditation classes, and fall prevention events.

Jim Van Veen went missing Jan. 26

"(I)n a sense it's a way of honouring our forebearers in this area. Bringing the people back to life.' -- photo exhibit co-curator Richard Thomas

Occupants were evacuating the rooming house when firefighters arrived.

Police said an 'organized theft ring of professional shoplifters based in the Greater Toronto Area are responsible for almost half a million dollars of stolen merchandise from these franchised pharmacies across Ontario since January of 2025.'

The county signed on with Smart Commute after a transit study identified commuting to work as one of the Bruce County's most significant transportation gaps.

As part of a pilot project in Grey County, Bruce County and Toronto, public health officials are asking residents to complete a community well-being survey.

Funding applications for projects that help boost tourism in the city just opened and will be accepted until March 23. Two information sessions about applying to the Owen Sound Tourism Development Fund are taking place Monday, Feb. 9, at 9:30 a.m. and 3 p.m. in the Owen Sound & District Chamber of Commerce boardroom, 1051 [...]

Police have charged a suspect and are seeking witnesses and dashcam footage related to an investigation of a hit-and-run in Craigleith Jan. 31. Police charged Christian Giesbrecht, 31, of Kitchener with fail to stop at accident resulting in bodily harm, Collingwood/Blue Mountains OPP said in a news release Friday. A collision involving a vehicle and [...]

A 56-year-old Arran-Elderslie man who was driving a snowmobile died in hospital after a collision with a passenger vehicle in Arran-Elderslie Thursday night. South Bruce OPP said in a news release that about 10:20 p.m., police were informed about a collision involving a passenger vehicle and a snowmobile on Bruce Road 11. Bruce Road 11, [...]

Pierce Mbuyi's third period power-play goal helped the Owen Sound Attack earn a point Thursday, but Kieron Walton was a one-man show in overtime.

With school bus cancellations piling up as quickly as the snowbanks in the area, school boards in Grey-Bruce have taken steps to help families navigate the challenges that come with learning at home. The Bruce-Grey Catholic District School Board on Thursday announced that it has launched its Always Learning website, serving as a central hub [...]

Brockton Mayor Chris Peabody said Ontario Attorney General Doug Downey is promising to spend $5 million on Walkerton courthouse renovations. Peabody said the news was shared with him and other Bruce County officials at a joint meeting arranged with both Downey and Solicitor General Michael Kerzner at the Rural Ontario Municipal Association conference in January. [...]

Supportive Outreach Services has added a highly modified Sprinter van that will allow the program to expand its services in the community. The new van has been converted into a mobile clinic designed to provide a safe, comfortable and welcoming space where trust can be built and care can be delivered with dignity, according to [...]

Part of the problem is there are fewer farmers to sell to, as large farm operations swallow them up, Midwest Co-op general manager Allan Williamson said.

A nice dinner and a few other perks are in the cards for a Hanover woman who recently won $100,000 playing the lottery. OLG announced on Wednesday that Wilma Hannivan had won the big prize after matching six of seven Encore numbers in exact order in the December 30 Lotto Max draw. The retired personal [...]

A recently refined skills matrix" will soon be used to assess new Grey Bruce Public Health board members. Over the next 5-6 weeks the board's appointing bodies will have this helpful tool available to assess potential appointees," an update from special advisors to Ontario's chief medical officer of health, Dr. Kieran Moore, said Wednesday. No [...]

Hanover police have obtained an arrest warrant for a Romanian national and have identified another individual believed to be part of an organized theft ring of professional shoplifters based in the Greater Toronto Area. On Wednesday, police said they worked in partnership with other policing partners across Ontario, corporate security specialists and Canada Border Services [...]

Heavy snow, unstable ice and hazardous terrain made continuing the search too dangerous for ground searchers, police said Monday, after looking for Van-Veen for days.

While other Ontario municipalities are beginning to sweat as salt supplies dwindle, it's all systems go in Grey-Bruce, for now. Reports have surfaced this week detailing a growing operational headache in places like Brockville, Pickering, and London, as supplies of winter road salt are running low due to near-constant winter storms and road clearing. In [...]

An alpine skier with local ties will look to win another Olympic medal when the 2026 Winter Games in Milano and Cortina, Italy, begin this week. James Jack" Crawford won bronze in Beijing 2022 in the men's alpine combined, becoming the first Canadian to win an Olympic medal in any alpine skiing combined event. He [...]

The Owen Sound Attack embark on a five-game road trip over the next two weeks. The Bayshore Boys will play in Peterborough, Kingston, Ottawa, Erie and Niagara before returning home on Valentine's Day to face Carter George and the Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds. As of Wednesday morning, the Attack (20-24-1-3) were sitting in sixth place [...]

At the ROMA conference last month, Right away, Minister Kerzner told us that he was committed to opening the jail." -- Brockton Mayor Chris Peabody

One person has been arrested and charged and police are seeking the public's help in identifying two others in relation to counterfeit currency circulating in the Durham and Hanover areas. On Monday evening, a 27-year-old West Grey woman was arrested after she allegedly used counterfeit currency at two local Durham businesses, West Grey police said [...]

Community Foundation Grey Bruce awarded more than $1 million in grants to regional charities and non-profits in 2025.

For over a decade, people in the Walkerton and Hanover area have advocated for hospice services closer to home. This summer, they're hoping to put shovels in the ground for the new seven-bed centre.

He had ventilated the silo for a half hour beforehand. Where did the gas come from?

Speaking for someSaugeen Shoresice users, Jordan MacKinnon, president of the Saugeen Shores Winterhawks, urged town council to move ahead now with planning for a second pad at The Plex. A consultant said its not needed until 2036.

Hanover police said there are reports of phony $100 bills in the area. Often most susceptible to receiving counterfeit money are retail stores, convenience stores, restaurants offering takeout and drive through food orders, alcohol and cannabis stores and gas stations, police said in a release Monday. Police are encouraging businesses to educate their employees who [...]

Money for more CT scans and to tackle surgical backlogs is coming to Grey-Bruce hospitals. Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound MPP Paul Vickers announced provincial funding totaling $2,227,500 in a news release Monday. Brightshores Health System will get $1,369,000 and South Bruce Grey Health Centre will receive $400,000 more to provide additional CT services. Also, Brightshores is to [...]

Police have paused a search for James Van-Veen, carried out over days at Inglis Falls, after his vehicle was found unoccupied in the Inglis Falls parking lot. The search began after a report that the 64-year-old Georgian Bluffs man failed to arrive at work, Grey Bruce OPP said in a news release Monday. A short [...]

Wiarton Willie did not see his shadow, crowd at 70th edition of Groundhog Day festival hears

Lucknow-area organic farmer Tony McQuail is remaining in the federal NDP leadership race after meeting the final requirements to run as a candidate. McQuail, 72, is one of five candidates who will be on the ballot when the party membership votes at their convention in Winnipeg March 27-29, after he was able to secure enough [...]

A Collingwood man was seriously injured after he was struck by a vehicle that failed to remain at the scene in The Blue Mountains. At about 8:30 p.m. Saturday, Collingwood OPP were called to the single-vehicle collision on Grey Road 19 in Craigleith where a vehicle had struck a pedestrian. The preliminary investigation indicates that [...]

After winning a pair of games this week, the Owen Sound Attack are starting to remember how fun it can be to come out on top.

Winter may have had its icy grip on Wiarton this weekend, but that didn't stop Mallory Beach's Marie Rutherford from taking her grandkids down to Bluewater Park for some outdoor fun at the 70th annual Wiarton Willie Festival. The temperature outside was around -13 Celsius and felt like -20 C with the windchill, but Kyler, [...]