Sault Ste. Marie news

• Algoma U and Sault Ste. Marie Police Service Announce Expanded Partnership

  29-10-2019 17:37
  This morning, Algoma University (AU) and the Sault Ste. Marie Police Service (SSMPS) announced the establishment of a new in-service training office within the Convergence Centre located on the University’s Sault Ste. Marie campus.   The announcement expands on partnership efforts established last year with the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) that formally […]
  
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• Triple play: City surpasses new housing starts for three consecutive years

  15-07-2026 21:03 via saultstar.com
  
  For the third year in a row, Sault Ste. Marie has surpassed its annual new housing start target set by the provincial government.It’s only one of two communities across Ontario that have achieved that goal. The other is Kitchener, said MPP Matthew Rae, Parliamentary assistant to the Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing. As a result, the city has been awarded $600,000 in additional funding under the Building Better Fund, bringing its total three-year reward to $1.8 million. The munici
  
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• Lewis sentenced for manslaughter in September

  15-07-2026 19:55 via saultstar.com
  
  A man who fatally stabbed his twin girlfriend’s boyfriend will be sentenced Sept. 23, said Ontario Court Justice Karen Pritchard on Wednesday.Montana Lewis was found guilty of manslaughter in January.Sam Graham, Jr. was stabbed by Lewis in November 2020. He was 19. Defence counsel David Bayliss is seeking time served for Lewis, who has four-and-a-half years of pre-sentence custody. Assistant Crown attorney Heidi Mitchell wants Lewis jailed 13 to 15 years. Bayliss and Lewis appeared in cou
  
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• Sault MPP's case adjourned two weeks

  15-07-2026 19:30 via saultstar.com
  
  A pre-trial for Sault Ste. Marie MPP Chris Scott was held Monday.Marcela Ahumada, speaking on behalf of defence cousnel Michael Lacy, asked for Scott’s matter to be adjourned for two weeks. Scott returns to court for an update on July 29.He faces domestic-related charges of assault and assault with a weapon. Scott is sitting as an independent after being removed from the Progressive Conservative caucus after he was charged in September 2025.
  
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• Limit visits to keep air ‘stable’: Sault Area Hospital

  15-07-2026 19:17 via saultstar.com
  
  Sault Area Hospital has declared a Code Grey Button Down as wildfire smoke causes poor air quality throughout the region Wednesday. “We are taking steps to protect patients, staff, and visitors while maintaining essential services,” the hospital said in a social media post. Air Quality MeasuresAir handlers are being adjusted throughout the building to improve indoor air quality.Odours may continue to be present while air quality remains poor.Clinical ServicesSurgeries and procedures
  
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• Limit outpatient visits to keep air ‘stable’: Sault Area Hospital

  15-07-2026 19:17 via saultstar.com
  
  Sault Area Hospital has declared a Code Grey Button Down as wildfire smoke causes poor air quality throughout the region Wednesday. “We are taking steps to protect patients, staff, and visitors while maintaining essential services,” the hospital said in a social media post. Air Quality MeasuresAir handlers are being adjusted throughout the building to improve indoor air quality.Odours may continue to be present while air quality remains poor.Clinical ServicesSurgeries and procedures
  
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• There's smoke on the water in the Sault

  15-07-2026 18:50 via saultstar.com
  
  A small pleasurecraft on the St. Mary’s River is obscured by smoke from forest fires on July 15, 2026.
  
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• Poor air quality prompts outdoor recreational closures in Sault Ste. Marie

  15-07-2026 16:31 via saultstar.com
  
  The City of Sault Ste. Marie is closing all city-operated outdoor pools and splash pads due to poor air quality conditions caused by wildfire smoke. The Downtown Plaza will also be closed to the public.Outdoor sporting events scheduled at city-operated facilities have been cancelled, including games at Elliott Sports Complex and Strathclair Park.“These precautionary measures have been taken to protect the health and safety of residents, participants, volunteers, and staff. Poor air qualit
  
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• Led Zeppelin tribute 'good enough' to get airborne

  15-07-2026 14:56 via saultstar.com
  
  Shaun Sanders has a Whole Lotta Love for Led Zeppelin. He parlayed a fascination with the British rock act as a youngster to a one-off tribute the Stairway to Heaven hitmakers to a tribute act that recently celebrated its 12th anniversary.ZED: A Tribute to the Music of Led Zeppelin is the featured act at Rotaryfest’s Stage 1 at Clergue Park on Saturday. Start time is 8:30 p.m. “ They took a hammer to the blues,” Sanders told The Sault Star during a recent phone interview from
  
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• Wildfire smoke causing poor air quality, reduced visibility in Sault Ste. Marie, Algoma

  15-07-2026 14:29 via saultstar.com
  
  Environment Canada’s special air quality statement now includes the entire Algoma District, issued an Orange Level warning. Smoke from wildfires is causing poor air quality and reduced visibility throughout Algoma District, Environment Canada said in a statement Wednesday. Conditions may improve late Thursday. “During heavy smoke conditions, everyone’s health is at risk regardless of their age or health status,” Environment Canada said in a statement.“Limit time ou
  
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• Wildfire smoke causing poor air quality, reduced visibility

  15-07-2026 14:29 via saultstar.com
  
  Environment Canada’s special air quality statement now includes the entire Algoma District, issued an Orange Level warning. Smoke from wildfires is causing poor air quality and reduced visibility throughout Algoma District, Environment Canada said in a statement Wednesday. Conditions may improve late Thursday. “During heavy smoke conditions, everyone’s health is at risk regardless of their age or health status,” Environment Canada said in a statement.“Limit time ou
  
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• 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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• Weighty waste infrastructure decisions for Sault 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 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 landfill expansion, and possible alternatives that balance environmental re
  
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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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• Accused asleep at the wheel, police say

  13-07-2026 20:06 via saultstar.com
  
  A man was charged early Sunday after police responded to a report of someone asleep in the driver’s seat of a running vehicle in the 0-100 block of Tancred Street.Police say the vehicle was in drive and had struck an unoccupied vehicle. Upon speaking with the driver — who identified as the accused — and observing drug paraphernalia inside the vehicle, officers say they developed grounds to believe the accused’s ability to operate a motor vehicle was impaired by drugs. Po
  
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• Man lays fists after being denied ride, police say

  13-07-2026 19:54 via saultstar.com
  
  A Kitchener, Ont., man was charged early Sunday after police responded to a report of an assault outside a business in the 600 block of Queen Street East.Police say the accused punched a victim multiple times after being denied a ride. The victim and accused are not known to one another. The victim sustained minor physical injuries. Matthew Broderick, 31, is charged with assault and being Intoxicated in Public Place. The accused was released on an undertaking and is scheduled to appear in court
  
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• Person punched ‘multiple’ times: Police

  13-07-2026 18:49 via saultstar.com
  
  Police laid charges Saturday after responding to a report of a disturbance in the 0-100 block of Churchill Avenue at around 4 a.m. The accused, police say, had punched a victim “multiple” times, causing minor physical injuries. The victim and accused are known to one another. The accused was located nearby and arrested. Officers say they located approximately 7.68 grams of suspected fentanyl. Robert Pozzo, 57, is charged with assault, possession of Schedule I Substance (fentanyl), a
  
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• Grace Street homes sustain ‘extensive’ fire, smoke damage - WITH PHOTO GALLERY

  13-07-2026 16:08 via saultstar.com
  
  Two Grace Street residential dwellings sustained “extensive” fire and smoke damage Saturday after fire ripped through the neighbouring structures. Shortly before 2 p.m., Sault Ste. Marie Fire Service responded to a call of a blaze in a residential dwelling in the 0-100 block.Firefighters arrived to “significant” smoke and flames visible from one structure as well as the neighbouring home. After “tirelessly” battling the blaze, crews were able to contain the f
  
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• Grace Street homes sustain ‘extensive’ fire, smoke damage

  13-07-2026 16:08 via saultstar.com
  
  Two Grace Street residential dwellings sustained “extensive” fire and smoke damage Saturday after fire ripped through the neighbouring structures. Shortly before 2 p.m., Sault Ste. Marie Fire Service responded to a call of a blaze in a residential dwelling in the 0-100 block.Firefighters arrived to “significant” smoke and flames visible from one structure as well as the neighbouring home. After “tirelessly” battling the blaze, crews were able to contain the f
  
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