Owen Sound Sun Times

One person is dead following a two-vehicle collision near Elmwood Thursday morning. South Bruce OPP were called to the scene at approximately 11:30 a.m. along with the Elmwood Fire Department and Grey Bruce EMS. Two passenger vehicles crashed on Bruce Road 10 near Dankert Lake Road. A 69-year-old female from Arran-Elderslie, a passenger in one [...]

The Owen Sound Baysox and Ivy Rangers will play Game 5 on Monday night at Tom Williams Park in Owen Sound.

In 2023, an Ontario Superior Court justice ruled an additional 2.4-kilometre strip of the popular beach "is and always has been part of Saugeen First Nation's reserve."

Owen Sound is one of half a dozen communities taking part in an initiative known as the Great Lakes Coastal Cleanup. The city will be joined by Thunder Bay, Chatham-Kent, Collingwood, Cobourg and Kingston for the Sept. 28 cleanup, which is a project of the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Cities Initiative. An $85,000 grant [...]

Grey Bruce Public Health lifted the swimming advisory for Kelso Beach on Thursday. The advisory has been in place since Aug. 6 after GBPH received lab confirmation that water samples from the beach had bacterial levels exceeding Ontario's recreational water quality guideline of a maximum of 200 E. Coli per 100 millilitres of water. A [...]

The local Salvation Army is putting a call out to the community for donations after seeing a noticeable drop in the number of items being received at its thrift store in Port Elgin. The organization, which supports people in need in Grey and Bruce counties, is hoping the community can help fill the gap by [...]

High school games, a university women's game, player and referee clinics and road hockey among highlights

A Mildmay resident has been charged after police say he attended a business wearing items that had been stolen from the same business just hours before. On Thursday, South Bruce OPP received a report of overnight break and enters at two adjacent business properties along Highway 9 in Mildmay. Police attended the locations, where they [...]

Event continues to see less fish entered, but quality remains high

A quartet of local ball players won gold with Team Ontario at the 2025 Canada Summer Games in St. John's. Joseph Weiler (Hepworth), Alex McGillivray (Durham), Dakota McComb (Williamsford) and Connor Paige (Hanover) helped the men from The Heartland Province beat Quebec, 4-2, in the gold-medal game Sunday. It's been a successful summer for the [...]

Grey-Bruce Board of Health chair Nick Saunders says provincial officials have admitted that the decision to terminate municipal representatives of the board was co-ordinated with ministry officials, and is asking that statements to the contrary be retracted. In a letter addressed to Ontario Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. Kieran Moore and also sent to [...]

An afternoon dance party at the Owen Sound legion will be held on Sept. 7 as part of an initiative to raise funds for veterans and their families who are in need, including those experiening homelessness. The event is being held to support the campaign by Branch 6 legion members Julie Benson and Bernadette Mervyn, [...]

The first set of cuts has been made. After two competitive days of rookie camp at the Owen Sound Attack's 2025 training camp at the Shallow Lake and District Community Centre, Attack brass finalized its main camp rosters that will include 23 forwards, 14 Defensemen and five goaltenders. Of these 42 players, 19 moved forward [...]

The Owen Sound Baysox are one win away from returning to the North Dufferin Baseball League championship series. The do-it-all Baysox employed a suicide squeeze, a superman dive, and a massive seven-run bottom of the fifth inning to beat the Ivy Rangers 9-5 Tuesday night in Owen Sound. The win gives the Baysox a 2-0 [...]

Former deputy-mayor spoke out against large industrial wind turbines

A company seeking to build solar farms near Allenford was back at South Bruce Peninsula council this month seeking support for its local projects. On Aug. 19, council received a delegation from Roberto Caputo on behalf of Compass Greenfield Development, where Caputo is the senior director of development. The delegation came just over a month [...]

If Landon Jackman becomes a premier power forward for the Owen Sound Attack, he'll have Matthew Tkachuk to thank. Born in Missouri near St. Louis, Jackman said the Tkachuk brothers often visited the city in the summers, where their father, Keith, once played for the Blues. He said Matthew's grit" is one thing he wants [...]

The Owen Sound Transportation Company has issued a warning about a fake website that is claiming to sell reservations for its ferry routes, including for the MS-Chi Cheemaun. On Monday the OSTC issued the warning about www.ontarioferries.org, which it says is currently impersonating the organization. This website is not affiliated with the Owen Sound Transportation [...]

Owen Sound police are reporting a busy weekend in the city, in which they responded to 100 calls for service and processed 32 Criminal Code offences and executed seven arrest warrants. Among the occurrences police responded to was an early-morning incident on Saturday where they received a complaint of a man brandishing a knife and [...]

United Way's Backpack Program handed out its 40,000th backpack this summer

They're chasing salmon in Owen Sound, and in nearby Shallow Lake, hockey players are chasing dreams. With the Harry Lumley Bayshore Community Centre still undergoing a massive renovation, the Owen Sound Attack opened rookie camp inside the Shallow Lake and District Community Centre on Monday. Thirty-eight players got the invite to the two-day camp at [...]

So far, fewer fish have been entered but they've been bigger, derby co-chair John Ford said.

'It's like an old-time fair. I feel it's like an old-time fair.' -- Markdale Agricultural Society president Wayne Shier

'I'm quite impressed. I didn't think kites can get this big, and be up in the air like this." -- Josie Felts, Dundalk resident

About 60 per cent of those who've confirmed they're coming are from Grey-Bruce.

Arran-Elderslie Mayor Steve Hammell said he'll ask to meet with Ontario's Minister of Health at the annual Association of Municipalities of Ontario (AMO) conference every year until the emergency department in Chesley returns to a 24/7 operation. Hammell and Arran-Elderslie CAO Emily Dance met with Ontario's Deputy Premier and Minister of Health, Sylvia Jones, in [...]

Attack GM Dale DeGray said Owen Sound will start the season with three goaltenders, and take it from there.

The lines are down and the fish are biting as the McDonald's Owen Sound Salmon Spectacular kicked off its 37th year on Friday morning. Anglers lined up at the weight station on Friday morning for when the scales opened at 10 a.m., and it didn't take long for some big fish to start coming in. [...]

A senior who was reported missing in the area of Little Pike Bay on the Bruce Peninsula has been found deceased. The death is not being treated as suspicious and no foul play is suspected, police said. Earlier this week, police appealed to the public for information that could help locate an 87-year-old woman who [...]

Those eligible for this support must be drawn from the 'by-name' list of chronically homeless.

'We invest in municipalities where policy, taxes and the people work closely with us to make rents attainable.' -- Greg Jones, SkyDev president

Police charged a 42-year-old Arran-Elderslie resident with uttering threats to cause death or bodily harm after a phone call was made to a financial institution in Walkerton. According to South Bruce OPP, a threatening phone call was made to a Walkerton financial institution at around 1:28 p.m. on Wednesday afternoon. Members of the OPP attended [...]

Board difficulties became pronounced during controversy over medical officer of health's pay, former board member Chris Peabody says.

'It's a nice, relaxing, fun family activity,' organizer Karen Cox said.

The soaking rain that much of Grey-Bruce experienced on Tuesday has led some local municipalities to begin lifting burn bans. Among those lifting bans on Wednesday were Brockton, West Grey, Meaford, Grey Highlands, The Blue Mountains, Southgate, Georgian Bluffs and Huron-Kinloss. Hot and dry conditions had led many municipalities across Grey-Bruce to implement full or [...]

Everyone loves a good fishing story, and there have been some gems throughout the 37 year history of Owen Sound's popular salmon derby.

Rents should be $750 to $800 per month, county community services director Anne Marie Shaw said.

Canada's minister of energy and natural resources visited Bruce Power on Tuesday to announce a new isotope production system. Tim Hodgson visited the nuclear power plant as Bruce Power detailed the installation of an isotope production system (IPS) in Unit 6, the first reactor to be renewed under the company's Life-Extension Program and Major Component [...]

For most, power was out for only two minutes but some waited two hours.

The Owen Sound Baysox are two wins away from competing for another North Dufferin Baseball League championship. The Baysox opened their semifinal series against the Ivy Rangers Sunday at Tom Williams Park in Owen Sound with an 8-5 win. Slugger Bryan Post led the way for the Scenic City squad with a double and a [...]

So far, it's 'unclear and undetermined' whether the remains were ancestral or more recent. -- Nawash band councillor Nick Saunders

The Ontario Hockey League's board of governors approved several changes at their annual general meeting in Muskoka this past week. Included in the changes are enhanced video review technology, which will be rolled out to all 20 team venues this season, a change to overage player registration eligibility, and stricter regulations for cut-resistant gear. The [...]

The Beer Store locations in Sauble Beach and Markdale will close effective Oct. 19. The Beer Store announced the closure of 12 stores on Monday, including the locations on Main Street in Sauble Beach and Argyle Street in Markdale. Other store forthcoming closures include locations in Grand Bend, Bridgenorth, Eganville, Forest, Harrow, Little Current, Noelville, [...]

Festival founder Tim Harrison performs with Larry Jensen, who opened the first festival

South Bruce OPP have charged a 26-year-old Arran-Elderslie woman with arson and two counts of assault with a weapon following a fire in Burgoyne. On Aug. 14, at approximately 5:16 a.m., South Bruce OPP and Arran-Elderslie Fire and Emergency Services attended a residence in Burgoyne for an active structure fire. Officers determined that the fire [...]

Several drivers were charged with impaired driving over the weekend, including a man who nearly hit an officer while fleeing from a RIDE program. According to the Grey Bruce OPP, police conducted a Reduce Impaired Driving Everywhere (RIDE) program at the intersection of Second Avenue North and Third Avenue North in Sauble Beach on Saturday. [...]

What started as a vision by a small group at Neyaashiinigmiing four decades ago has grown into a cherished event held each year to celebrate the traditions and culture of the First Nations community. The Chippewas of Nawash Unceded First Nation held their 40th annual traditional powwow at the Arthur Butch" Elliot (Azhdayoniquot) Memorial Cultural [...]

Hundreds of cyclists headed out onto the roads of Saugeen Shores on Saturday for the 2025 Gran Fondo Lake Huron. Riders of all ages took part in half a dozen rides ranging in distance from 10 to 110 kilometres that started in Southampton and took them through the rolling countryside. A 1-kilometre kids ride was [...]