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 [...]

The Ontario government's plans to make sweeping changes to the province's conservation authority system has some concerned about the impacts in Grey-Bruce. On Friday, the province announced it would soon introduce legislation to create an Ontario Provincial Conservation Agency (OPCA) that will oversee a revamped system in which the province's current makeup of 36 conservation [...]