Owen Sound Sun Times

The Owen Sound Baysox have finished the regular season atop the North Dufferin Baseball League standings. The Baysox finished with a record of 17-5-0, narrowly beating out the defending champion New Lowell Knights (16-4-2) for the top spot. The Ivy Rangers (15-6-1), who Owen Sound beat to win the 2024 Strother Cup, finished in third [...]

Renovations are well underway at Safe N Sound's emergency homeless shelter in Owen Sound, with it on track to open on November 1. But during an update at Owen Sound city council on Monday about the facility at 612 2nd Ave. E., concerns were raised by council members about ensuring there was enough communication with [...]

Public health units across the region are sounding the alarm when it comes to rising food insecurity.

Owen Sound council granted final approval to the following business licences at its meeting on Monday, July 27: - Prince Yahya Transit Solutions Inc., a taxi company located at 127 8th St. E. - Red Swan Pizza, a takeout restaurant at 925 16th St. E., Unit 2 - Toppers Pizza, a takeout restaurant at 1057 [...]

City police arrested a 24-year-old Owen Sound man out on bail after a dangerous series of events on Sunday. According to police, the man resisted officers attempting to arrest him while operating a pickup truck and allegedly breaching multiple release conditions at approximately 4:50 p.m. The accused was out on bail and subject to several [...]

Council voted 5-2 in favour of the deal which will provide up to $4 million over three years as the Ontario Pumped Storage project goes through the regulatory review process.

The Owen Sound North Stars fell to the Brooklin Lacrosse Club, 14-4, at home on Saturday night. The action inside the Harry Lumley Bayshore Community Centre saw the North Stars fall to 1-15 in the Major Series Lacrosse league, a circuit that features seven of Ontario's top-tier summer lacrosse squads who compete for a chance [...]

The details are magnified in the playoffs. Every loose ball, every pick and roll, every change on the fly - you never know when it may be the difference between winning and losing. That was true Sunday evening in Owen Sound as the North Stars took Game 1 of their Ontario Series Lacrosse semifinal over [...]

The barrels are gone and no evidence of contamination was found but a Chatsworth Township citizen who reported them remains concerned.

Southampton's 15th annual Marine Heritage Festival is expected to draw more than 7,000 people.

While the money is important, getting more people to take a suicide prevention course, especially young people, is Tawnia Courage's hope. Her son died by suicide in 2019 and this was the fifth walk in his honour.

Coalition of community groups to attend council meeting to plead case for arena repairs and upgrades

'We are very grateful for the support that Kieran Moore and the Ministry of Health . . . have given us.' -- newly elected GBPH board chair Kenneth Craig

After two sets of grandparents lost their homes to a fire in Meaford on Tuesday night the community's outpouring of support has been overwhelming." Bryan and Helen Gelyk, along with Gary and Marg Lawrence, are the neighbours whose homes burned down on Nelson Street. Helen Gelyk, a retired NICU nurse, is in Yellowknife, where her [...]

It's a four-person race for chief of Saugeen First Nation in an election set for August 28. The ballot for the Saugeen First Nation #29 election was finalized earlier this week. Incumbent chief Conrad Ritchie is seeking re-election. He'll be challenged by former chief Lester Anoquot, Indigenous education consultant Natalka Pucan and band councillor Sonya [...]

Grey County has formally approved a rural and urban road transfer with its lower-tier municipalities to take place next year. At its meeting on Thursday, county council passed bylaws to add and remove the roads involved in the exchange from the county system. Over the coming months, the county will work towards finalizing agreements with [...]

The Grey Bruce Ontario Health Team says that more than 9,000 local residents in the two counties have been successfully attached to a primary care provider in the last year-and-a-half. Grey Bruce OHT executive director Lindsay Johnston was at Grey County council on Thursday to provide an update as it works toward a goal of [...]

Joel Stronach says barrels should be removed now, and officials can figure out who pays later

Annual 13-kilometre road race between Oliphant and Wiarton to take place on Aug. 3

Three-year agreement could provide municipality and community groups over $4 million

A large fire in Meaford destroyed a home and caused extensive damage to a neighbouring property on Tuesday night. Firefighters and cleanup crews were at the site early Wednesday morning, where a Nelson Street home was completely destroyed, and the roof of a home next door collapsed. Photos from neighbours show a home fully engulfed [...]

The Meaford International Film Festival (MIFF) returns to Meaford Hall from Sept. 25 to 27 and is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. Featuring international, award-winning films and special guest interviews, the festival is a fundraiser for the Meaford Culture Foundation, which supports arts and culture programs in the community. This year's festival will include [...]

The Grey Bruce Junior Golf Tour made its third stop of the season at Legacy Ridge on Tuesday. Eighty junior golfers took to the links on a cloud-filled day at the Owen Sound course for the round sponsored by Jason Green of TD Wealth. Bennett Brodie shot a 78 to take the under-19 boys' division [...]

'This is a long-term investment in the health, well-being and quality of life of our residents.' -- Mayor Milt McIver

The second annual Southampton Arts Festival returns to the Lake Huron shoreline community at the end of the month. Introduced in 2025, the sprawling multi-day art festival will once again take over the town for much of the Civic holiday weekend, from July 31 to Aug. 2. There will be more than three dozen points [...]

Grey Bruce OPP officers have busted what they suspect was a regional property theft operation. Six people face charges related to a stolen property investigation which resulted in the recovery of about $137,000 worth of what police said were stolen goods. Since the spring, Grey-Bruce and surrounding areas experienced a noticeable increase in break and [...]

Bruce County is expanding a community outreach program to support residents with mental health, addiction and housing needs. The county's Community Outreach and Support Team (COAST) builds on the Bruce County Outreach program and is a mobile multidisciplinary team, Bruce County said in a media release. COAST is partnering with Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA) [...]

The Owen Sound Attack have officially added a skilled young blueliner to the fold for the 2026-27 season. On Monday, the Owen Sound Attack announced they signed Caden Bell to an Ontario Hockey League Standard Player Scholarship and Development Agreement with the club. Bell was acquired by the Attack earlier in the offseason in a [...]

A 77-year-old Kincardine resident died following a crash Sunday morning in Huron County. The single motor vehicle crash in the Ashfield-Colborne-Wawanosh township happened shortly after 9 a.m., a Huron County OPP news release said. The OPP, Bruce County Emergency Medical Services and Lucknow Fire Department responded. The 77-year-old driver suffered life-threatening injuries and was pronounced [...]

Between 1940 and 1945, the foundry that was on the BCK site supplied the propellers for all the ships built in Canada for the wartime shipbuilding program.

Picketers say Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound MPP Paul Vickers is shutting them out, but Vickers said the fight is with employers not Queen's Park.

Fundraising walks happening in the Owen Sound and Hanover areas.

The Owen Sound Matt Brown Nicol Insurance North Stars under-9 (A) team are provincial champions. The North Stars won gold this past weekend at the Ontario Women's Field Lacrosse provincials in Kitchener-Waterloo. The North Stars battled through two hard-fought games, first against the Oshawa Lady Blue Knights and then in the gold-medal game against the [...]

POST POWERS BAYSOX SWEEP Owen Sound Baysox slugger Bryan Post swatted three home runs and recorded 10 RBIs as the Owen Sound Baysox swept the Orillia Majors in a doubleheader at Tom Williams Park on Saturday. With the pair of wins, the Baysox (16-4-0) have retaken the lead in the North Dufferin Baseball League standings [...]

Series recap: The Owen Sound North Stars beat Highway 26 rival Collingwood in the first round of the Ontario Series Lacrosse playoffs.

Preliminary list includes 6 candidates for chief and 51 for councillor

Club recently handed out its awards at annual banquet

After previously being based at Kelso Beach at Nawash Park, the event is moving to the Harry Lumley Bayshore Community Centre

Independent environmental assessment identified issues relating to mould and air quality

The Municipality of Northern Bruce Peninsula continues to weigh its options for the closed road at Cabot Head, and is now leaning towards an option that would see the road formally closed and converted into a recreational trail. At its meeting on Monday, council received a report containing business plans for four options for the [...]

Single-family homes planned for Ridgecrest Subdivision in city's northeast

Cam Sanderson soared through the crease to score a sudden-death overtime winner on Friday night. The highlight-reel goal capped off a massive four-goal comeback by the Owen Sound North Stars, who won Game 1 of the Ontario Series Lacrosse quarterfinal over the Collingwood Cruise, 8-7. I was alone on an island there for a little [...]

The partners involved in the proposed regional network have pushed back the planned implementation with study work ongoing

The offender conducted a 'reign of terror,' the judge said.

Community members have rallied to support a well-known Oxenden family after Heidi Smith-Tones suffered a serious brain injury while cycling on Grey Road 1. Smith-Tones suffered what police called life-threatening injuries from the incident on Monday, July 6, and was taken to the hospital in Wiarton before being airlifted to Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in [...]

The air quality warning in Grey-Bruce brought on by smoke from forest fires in northwestern Ontario continued into a third day on Friday, with Canadian weather officials saying it could persist into the weekend. The orange-level warning that came into effect on Wednesday has led to the cancellation of outdoor activities and closure of some [...]

The Grey Bruce Junior Golf Tour completed its second event of the 2026 season on Tuesday at Cobble Beach Golf Links in Owen Sound. A full field of 80 junior golfers competed in challenging conditions, with hot temperatures and strong winds testing every player's game. The tournament was sponsored by Chris Frook of Scotia Wealth [...]

Mayor says it will be up to a current or future council member to decide if the project is revisited in a different form

The region's unemployment rate fell slightly to 5.6 per cent in June, in line with the provincial unemployment rate, which decreased to 7.1 per cent. According to figures distributed by the Four County Labour Market Planning Board, the Stratford-Bruce Peninsula Economic Region, which includes Grey and Bruce counties, has the second lowest unemployment rate throughout [...]

Community Foundation Grey Bruce has awarded more than $219,000 through the Free to Play