Owen Sound

Public health units are shrinking budgets and cutting jobs across the province as government funding increases are outpaced by inflation and COVID-era balance sheet boosts come to an end this year. Grey Bruce Public Health (GBPH) navigated a proposed $1.3 million budget cut in 2024 without laying off any permanent

Jobs in the region’s culture and recreation sector nearly doubled in March as the summer tourist season nears. The Four County Labour Market and Planning Board released monthly job stats for March within the Stratford-Bruce Peninsula Economic Region late last week. As is often the case, the region’s unemployment rate

The libraries of Bruce and Grey counties are looking for work from young and aspiring filmmakers for the Grey Bruce Youth Film Festival. The submission deadline for this year’s festival is May 10 with a screening of the selected films to take place at the Owen Sound Galaxy Cinemas in

Grey Bruce Public Health is asking the province whether merging with another health unit is merely a suggestion or a requirement. At the same time, it’s going to send out three letters to neighbouring health units to see if there would be a willing partner, local health board chair Sue

Owen Sound’s mayor said the city will look into installing more cameras and lighting downtown in the wake of a fatal assault on restaurant owner Sharif Rahman outside his business. Read More

An area mayor under fire since the release of an audio recording of inflammatory comments he made about a First Nation has resigned. Read More

Hundreds of people walked through downtown Owen Sound Sunday night to remember a business owner who died in hospital following a serious assault outside of his restaurant. Read More

Grey-Bruce OPP are now assisting Owen Sound police in a homicide investigation into the death of a restaurant owner who was assaulted outside his business. Read More

The owner of an Owen Sound restaurant, who had been on life support in a London hospital following a serious assault outside of his business last Thursday, has died, his family and friends say. Read More

Owen Sound police have released photos of two suspects in an assault that left the owner of a downtown restaurant with critical injuries. Read More

The family of an Owen Sound restaurant owner is asking everyone to pray for him after a serious assault last week left him fighting for his life in hospital in London. Read More

In honour of Tom Thomson’s birthday, the art gallery bearing his name in Owen Sound has announced plans to digitize its entire collection. To mark the birth 146 years ago Saturday of this local artist of national importance, 70 Thomson artworks and related items in the collection are presented on