Local News

Competition was fierce at the Canadian Night Club last night as 10 local bands vied for the opening time slot during the December 15 KISS concert at the Essar Centre.

NEWS RELEASE INTERNATIONAL BRIDGE AUTHORITY ****************************** Sault Ste. Marie Bridge Authority convenes for first time Marking the change in governance of the Sault Ste.

Kenneth Gibbs was handed a three-and-a-half-year sentence today for indecently assaulting five now-grown women when they were girls and he was an Anglican priest in Chapleau and Elliot Lake.

Citizens of Garden River First Nation have reached the end of their patience. So says band councillor Darrell Boissoneau.

NEWS RELEASE ANISHINABEK NATION **************************** HST the ‘line in the sand’; Madahbee TORONTO (December 3) - Grand Council Chief Patrick Madahbee [shown] predicts that First Nations will draw a "line in the sand" over the proposed harmoni

NEWS RELEASE SAULT AREA HOSPITAL ****************************** Longer wait times possible for non-urgent cases SAULT STE.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his wife Laureen are in Badaling, China today, visiting the Great Wall of China.

By a vote of 192 to 32, members of parliament today passed the Conservative government's proposed harmonized sales tax (HST) in British Columbia and Ontario.

Highway 17 and Highway 17B at Garden River were closed to traffic by area police forces for a little more than one hour today to accomodate a one-hour protest against the harmonized sales tax. By 2:15 p.m.

CITY POLICE NEWS RELEASE ************************* Garden River First Nation protest The Sault Ste. Marie Police Service would like to remind the public about the planned protest organized today by the Garden River First Nation.