Sault Ste. Marie news

• Victim beat with bat on Cathcart Street

  14-07-2026 20:55 via saultstar.com
  
  A person was badly beaten with a baseball bat at a residence near the International Bridge on Friday. The victim was then dragged from a unit at 385 Cathcart St. by a second person. First responders were told the injured person arrived at the address injured, police say.Sheena Matchett, 38, was charged with assault, assault causing bodily harm, assault a weapon and obstruct justice. Robert Parent, 38, was charged with assault causing bodily harm, assault with a weapon, obstruct justice, possess
  
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• Sault faces major waste infrastructure decisions as landfill nears capacity

  14-07-2026 20:11 via saultstar.com
  
  Sault Ste. Marie residents will soon hear more about the city’s need to expand the landfill and waste mining, complete with projected costs.An educational plan will also be unveiled to explain the biosolids management and organic processing regulatory requirements and their costs the city will face in the coming years. The public consultation process, as well as detailed reports highlighting financial requirements for the landfill expansion, and possible alternatives that balance environm
  
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• Healthy history: Time capsule discovery at former General Hospital ‘excited’ Sault Museum curator

  14-07-2026 17:18 via saultstar.com
  
  William Hollingshead smiles as he peruses a phenomenally well-preserved April 29, 1963 edition of The Sault Daily Star. Its paper is neither torn nor tarnished. The type telling a story titled, Castro, Khrushchev talk of more aid, is as legible today as it would have been decades ago during the height of the Cold War. “I can’t believe it’s not yellowed,” Hollingshead says as he turns pages.As Sault Ste. Marie Museum’s executive director and chief curator, Hollingsh
  
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• Healthy history: Sault Museum curator ‘excited’ by time capsule discovery at former General Hospital

  14-07-2026 17:18 via saultstar.com
  
  William Hollingshead smiles as he peruses a phenomenally well-preserved April 29, 1963 edition of The Sault Daily Star. Its paper is neither torn nor tarnished. The type telling a story titled, Castro, Khrushchev Talk of More Aid, is as legible today as it would have been decades ago during the height of the Cold War. “I can’t believe it’s not more yellowed,” Hollingshead says as he turns pages.As Sault Ste. Marie Museum’s executive director and chief curator, Holl
  
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• Search doesn't find missing Sault angler

  14-07-2026 16:29 via saultstar.com
  
  Extensive searches on land and water did not find a Sault Ste. Marie angler who went missing north of the city this spring. Terry Garson, 68, was last seen April 27 in the Harmony Beach parking lot. He was fishing for trout and smelt. Various Ontario Provincial Police units, including emergency response team, canine unit and underwater search and recovery unit, were joined by Sault Search and Rescue and Royal Canadian Mounted Police, said Const. Bev Gauthier. The search for Garson ran several d
  
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• Security guards roughed up on Great Northern Road

  14-07-2026 15:59 via saultstar.com
  
  Security guards were allegedly threatened, kicked, punched and scratched.Their injuries in the Monday assault in the 700 block of Great Northern Road were minor, police say.A youth, 16, was charged with uttering threats to cause death or bodily harm and two counts assault. The accused’s name can’t be released under the Youth Criminal Justice Act.
  
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• Sault woman dies in motorcycle crash near Thunder Bay

  14-07-2026 15:45 via saultstar.com
  
  A Sault Ste. Marie woman died when three motorcycles collided east of Thunder Bay last Saturday.The crash happened on Highway 11-17, near Highway 527, in Shuniah, Ontario Provincial Police say.The motorcyclists were westbound heading towards the Terry Fox Monument in Thunder Bay, said regional media and communications coordinator Eric McCrea. The Sault biker, 58, was pronounced dead at the scene. Her name was not released by police. The other two riders went to hospital with non-life-threatenin
  
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• Second drill starts work at Wawa Gold Project

  14-07-2026 14:45 via saultstar.com
  
  A second diamond drill is now part of a drilling program at RPX Gold’s Wawa Gold Project. The drill’s addition “will provide greater flexibility to test exploration projects identified through the 2025-26 program, further highlighting the upside potential of the land package,” said president and CEO Michael Michaud in a release. The program covers 20,000 metres. The Toronto-based company completed about 5,000 metres of that target as of Sunday.RPX Gold plans to finish a
  
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• Kates contends at provincial golf tourney in 1976: IN OTHER YEARS

  14-07-2026 06:01 via saultstar.com
  
  Jul 14, 2001Blake Sullivan, 9, Jessica Kelso, 6, Matea David-Steel, 5 and Destinee Peltonen, 4, are among the youngsters attending the gym and swim program at John Rhodes Centre. July 14, 1976Sault Ste. Marie’s Paul Kates is sitting just five strokes back of the leader after the opening 18 holes of the play at the Ontario Amateur Golf Championship. Jamie Melville and Tom Soltys, also of the Sault, also remain in contention. July 14, 1951Onni’s Meat Market, 288 Korah Rd., welcomes th
  
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• Sault city council commits up to $15M to port project

  14-07-2026 04:58 via saultstar.com
  
  City council is putting their money where their mouth is.They’re committing up to $15 million towards the Port of Sault Ste. Marie.The port is one of the most critical economic development projects the city is working on, said Mayor Matthew Shoemaker. Despite repeated and varied attempts at creating a port for decades, the project has never been as close to reality as it currently is, he told city council.A city funding commitment will show the federal government that the municipality is
  
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• Sault YMCA stabilizes finances, eyes new future through partnerships

  14-07-2026 04:00 via saultstar.com
  
  The Sault Ste. Marie YMCA has stabilized its finances, strengthened its governance and will be drafting its future vision in short order.That’s the message city council received Monday from Sault YMCA CEO James Chan and YMCA Canada’s President and CEO Peter Dinsdale.With 700 members using the facility daily and 500 childcare spaces filled across Sault Ste. Marie, the picture is brighter than what it was in April 2024 when it was announced that the YMCA was putting its McNabb Street
  
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• Wildland fire now 'under control' in Sault Ste. Marie

  14-07-2026 00:33 via saultstar.com
  
  Human intervention is ‘suspected’ to be the most likely cause of a wildland fire near the city’s airport, said Sault Ste. Marie’s fire chief.An official cause of the fire has not yet been determined. Fire Chief Naomi Thibault said the fire was under control by late Monday. Under control is defined as “the fire’s spread has been halted, according to MNR fire definition.The city’s fire department first received notice of “a bush fire” at about
  
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• Wildfire now 'under control' in Sault Ste. Marie

  14-07-2026 00:33 via saultstar.com
  Human intervention is ‘suspected’ to be the most likely cause of a wildland fire near the city’s airport, said Sault Ste. Marie’s fire chief.An official cause of the fire has not yet been determined. Fire Chief Naomi Thibault said the fire was under control by late Monday. Under control is defined as “the fire’s spread has been halted, according to MNR fire definition.The city’s fire department first received notice of “a bush fire” at about
  
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