Local News

CITY POLICE NEWS RELEASE ********************** At approximately 12:40 a.m. the Sault Ste. Marie Fire Deptment and the City Police attended at 833 Bonney Street regarding a vacant house on fire.

The Sault Ste. Marie Regional Conservation Authority last night awarded the right to manage its Hiawatha Highlands ski trails to the Soo Finnish Nordic Ski Club.

CITY POLICE NEWS RELEASE ********************* City Police were kept busy with reports of thefts from vehicles. Thieves struck at the following locations: 1. - the 100 block of Upton Rd. - the 600 block of Albert St.E.

The turnaround continues at RYTAC, Sault Ste. Marie's waterfront sports and recreation centre. After nearly capsizing in 2004, the Rotary YMCA Tennis and Aquatic Centre underwent a major reorganization last year.

OPP NEWS RELEASES ********************** 1:09 a.m. update Effective 10:30 p.m. the highway has been reopened to traffic in both directions. 7:44 p.m. update Effective 7:30 p.m. the highway now has one lane open.

NEWS RELEASE CONGRESSMAN BART STUPAK 1ST CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN ********************** Stupak statement on Homeland Security and State Department proposed rule for implementation of the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative WASHINGTON - Co

The Associated Press is reporting tonight that Gerald Ford has been admitted to Minnesota's Mayo Clinic. The former U.S. president is to undergo testing and evaluation, the wire service says.

The following is the Federal Aviation Administration's preliminary accident data from yesterday's fatal crash of a Piper Apache aircraft just outside the Chippewa Correctional Facility in Kincheloe.

The four Wisconsin residents who died in yesterday's small-plane crash near the Chippewa Correctional Facility in Kincheloe had been on a business trip to Canada, media reports indicate.

Ted Day, well known to many in Sault Ste. Marie as the affable director of northern marketing at Ontario Tourism and Marketing Partnership Corp. (OTMPC), was one of three people who died yesterday in a head-on collision on Highway 17 near Dryden.