Sault Ste. Marie news

• Significant snowfall on tap for Saturday

  29-03-2018 23:37
  Special weather statement in effect for: Agawa – Lake Superior Park Sault Ste. Marie – St. Joseph Island Searchmont – Montreal River Harbour – Batchawana Bay A low pressure system will develop over the United States on Friday and will track across northeastern Ontario on Saturday. The system is expected to bring significant snowfall amounts […]
  
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• Sault woman accused of driving impaired on Highway 17

  15-06-2026 20:46 via saultstar.com
  
  A Sault Ste. Marie woman was charged after a traffic complaint on Highway 17 in Sudbury.She was stopped late Saturday, Ontario Provincial Police say.Suzanne Robinson, 47, was charged with operation while impaired, alcohol and failure or refusal to comply with demand. Her vehicle was impounded for one week and licence suspended for 90 days.Court date for the accused is July 22 in Sudbury.
  
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• Theft suspect found in Sault with drugs, improvised weapon

  15-06-2026 20:30 via saultstar.com
  
  A man was allegedly found with narcotics and an improvised weapon after a theft complaint from a business.Two suspects were sought after merchandise was taken from a store in the 200 block of Northern Avenue East on Saturday afternoon, police say.One of the men is accused of having suspected cocaine, methamphetamine, fentanyl and drug paraphernalia in his possession.Gerald Anglehart, 33, was charged with obstruct peace officer, possession of a credit card, possession of an identity document, po
  
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• Prince Township keeps moored to Gros Cap Marina

  15-06-2026 20:23 via saultstar.com
  
  Prince Township Council renewed the agreement with the Ministry of Fisheries and Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard to lease the Gros Cap Marina for another five years.The agreement requires the township to obtain $5 million in liability insurance on the premises, prevent contamination of the grounds and water, and to perform light maintenance tasks. In recent years, the marina has been a revenue source for the township. Budget figures revealed that the township brought in $10,700 last year fr
  
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• Sault College, Algoma U consider port-related programs

  15-06-2026 19:52 via saultstar.com
  
  Sault College and Algoma University are exploring starting possible programs to train workers who could be employed at the proposed Port of Sault Ste. Marie. Supply chain and logistics training could be offered, said Algoma interim president Sheila Embleton. The potential port will need workers with “certain skill sets,” she told The Sault Star following a signing of memorandum of understanding between the two institutions on June 10. The school that would offer the training is to b
  
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• Teen took 'lead' after Sault slaying last fall

  15-06-2026 15:23 via saultstar.com
  
  A teen killer was helped after the slaying near YMCA of Sault Ste. Marie last fall by another youth who was acting “freely and deliberately,” the Crown argued last Friday.Adam Fadel, 23, died after he was stabbed four times in the chest, abdomen and frontal lobe on Poplar Avenue on Sept. 13. His killer, who was 15, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in April. He’ll be sentenced on June 30. His accomplice, who was 16 when Fadel died, pleaded to accessory after the fact to m
  
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• Impaired driver went wrong way on downtown Sault streets

  14-06-2026 15:30 via saultstar.com
  
  A motorist who drove the wrong way on three downtown streets nearly two years ago had more than two times the legal amount of booze in his blood. Curvel Mitchel drove eastbound on Queen Street East shortly before 2 a.m. on Oct. 26, 2024, said assistant Crown attorney Blair Hagan last Wednesday. He also went the wrong way on Pim and Bay streets. Mitchel was stopped by Sault Ste. Marie Police Service. Mitchel pleaded guilty to impaired driving. There was an “overwhelming odour” of alc
  
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• Troy's Trail 'making a difference' for Sault residents

  14-06-2026 05:37 via saultstar.com
  
  New faces help put an extra bounce in Troy Chandler’s step.Chandler welcomed at least two new participants – both youngsters with hydrocephalus – to the 15th annual Troy’s Trail Spirit Wheel Walk Run held Saturday at Art Gallery of Algoma to benefit Hydrocephalus Canada. They joined about 80 others – the most since before the COVID-19 pandemic – for the waterfront jaunt to Ronald A. Irwin Civic Centre.Chandler told participants “it’s always a win&
  
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• Tall order at Sault Ste. Marie Festival of Beer

  13-06-2026 22:04 via saultstar.com
  
  Josh Mathieu runs glasses during Sault Ste. Marie Festival of Beer at Downtown Plaza and Queen Street East’s Block Two on Saturday. Participating craft breweries included Forty Six North Brewery, Kingsville Brewery and Crafty Elk Hard Juice. BRIAN KELLY
  
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• Stocking up at Sault Ste. Marie Festival of Beer

  13-06-2026 22:04 via saultstar.com
  
  Sault Ste. Marie Festival of Beer on Saturday, June 13, 2026 in Sault Ste. Marie, Ont. (BRIAN KELLY/THE SAULT STAR/POSTMEDIA NETWORK)
  
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• Talking theatre in Sault's Bayview

  13-06-2026 21:18 via saultstar.com
  
  Megan Wigmore, fundraising chair of Sault Theatre Wo9rkshiop and Algoma Repertory Theatre member, speaks with Mike Delfre, president of Sault Ste. Marie Museum, speak at Studio Theatre on Saturday, June 13, 2026 in Sault Ste. Marie, Ont. (BRIAN KELLY/THE SAULT STAR/POSTMEDIA NETWORK)
  
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• Tuomela Sault's sportsperson of the year in 2001: IN OTHER YEARS

  13-06-2026 06:01 via saultstar.com
  
  June 13, 2001Jessica Tuomela is the first physically-challenged athlete to win the HP Broughton Award, given each year to Sault Ste. Marie’s sportsperson of the year. Tuomela lost her sight at age three and began swimming when she was 12. Sault Ste. Maire is one of seven cities to receive a new Victim/Witness Assistance Program. June 13, 1951The king’s prolonged convalescence from influenza and inflammation of the lung will not prevent him from carrying out state duties, a Buckingha
  
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• Third poisoning in Sault Ste. Marie area, Algoma Public Health reports

  13-06-2026 00:08 via saultstar.com
  
  Following Anishinabek Police Service‘s drug alert for Garden River First Nation after reports of two suspected overdoses in the past week – one of which was fatal – Algoma Public Health has been notified by the Ontario Poison Centre of a third recent poisoning in the Sault Ste. Marie area. This occurred, APH said late Friday afternoon, after the person used what they believed was cannabis. Neither the person’s condition nor exactly where this occurred was reported. In Ga
  
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• Third poisoning in Sault Ste. Marie, Algoma Public Health reports

  13-06-2026 00:08 via saultstar.com
  
  Following Anishinabek Police Service‘s drug alert for Garden River First Nation after reports of two suspected overdoses in the past week – one of which was fatal – Algoma Public Health has been notified by the Ontario Poison Centre of a third recent poisoning in the Sault Ste. Marie area. This occurred, APH said late Friday afternoon, after the person used what they believed was cannabis. The person’s condition is not reported.In Garden River, several people at a reside
  
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• City unveils revised Clergue Park vision ahead of joint council meeting

  12-06-2026 20:36 via saultstar.com
  
  An updated Clergue Park Master Plan will be presented at a joint Sault Ste. Marie Canada-US council meeting on Monday.The updated plan is a result of continued design work with the city’s consultant, said City CAO Tom Vair.It includes the removal of the waterfront pool, changes in the design on the urban beach area and improvements to the step down to the waterfront.The specialized playground, which documents the city’s Baawating Story, has also been fine-tuned, he said.Sault Ste. M
  
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• Shirley Horn reflects on Order of Ontario: ‘It wasn't about me’

  12-06-2026 17:59 via saultstar.com
  
  Elder Shirley Horn says the Order of Ontario she received earlier this month belongs not to her alone, but to generations of residential school survivors who spent decades ensuring their stories would be heard.Horn, a residential school survivor and the first chancellor of Algoma University, was among 30 people appointed to the Order of Ontario during a June 1 ceremony at Queen’s Park in Toronto.The province’s highest civilian honour recognized Horn for having “advanced reconc
  
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• Camera was turned away before London woman was found dead, trial hears

  12-06-2026 14:14 via saultstar.com
  
  ST. THOMAS – What may have been the last image of Caitlin Jennings alive was captured by a camera perched on a hutch inside David Yates’s living room.London police special constable Kimberley Seward, a digital forensics examiner, found the image while searching Yates’s iPhone 13 Pro Max after Jennings, 22, was discovered beaten to death in Yates’s home on July 5, 2023.The snapshot from a Google Nest camera was taken before midnight on July 2, 2023, and showed someone sit
  
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• Mom of Sault manslaughter victim 'shell of a woman that I used to be'

  12-06-2026 00:33 via saultstar.com
  
  The mother of a man who was fatally stabbed in the driveway of an east-end home nearly six years ago was told she couldn’t touch her son when she saw his dead body at a trauma room at Sault Area Hospital’s emergency department.A tag was on Sam Graham, Jr.’s toe. His clothes were on a pile on the floor and an intubation tube was still in his mouth, Brigette Graham said in her victim impact statement on Thursday.Montana Lewis, the twin brother of Graham’s girlfriend, Semia
  
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• Jail Montana Lewis for 13-15 years: Crown

  12-06-2026 00:33 via saultstar.com
  
  The mother of a man who was fatally stabbed in the driveway of an east-end home nearly six years ago was told she couldn’t touch her son when she saw his dead body in a trauma room at Sault Area Hospital’s emergency department.A tag was on Sam Graham, Jr.’s toe. His clothes were on a pile on the floor and an intubation tube was still in his mouth, Brigette Graham said in her victim impact statement on Thursday.Montana Lewis, the twin brother of Graham’s girlfriend, Semia
  
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• AWIC launches youth survey to help share Algoma's future workforce

  11-06-2026 20:36 via saultstar.com
  
  The Algoma Workforce Investment Corp. (AWIC) wants to hear from youth to better understand the experiences, aspirations and needs of young people across the district.Understanding the perspectives of youth as employers across the region face workforce shortages, an aging workforce and increasing competition for talent has never been more important, said Silvia Alves, executive director of AWIC.The last youth survey targeted secondary school students about three years ago, she said.“It wil
  
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• Province-wide 'Ford Must Go' protest planned for June 27

  11-06-2026 18:55 via saultstar.com
  
  A second grassroots, province-wide protest under the mantra ‘Ford Must Go’ is being planned for Sat. June 27.In Sault Ste. Marie, the protest will take place at 153 Great Northern Road, the site of MPP Chris Scott’s constituency office.This protest comes on the heels of a similar one held on May 30 at the same location.That protest focused on a number of issues, including provincial decisions that could affect the environment – and the decision to merge conservation auth
  
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• Scram if you're too cozy to the topic: Algoma Public Health

  11-06-2026 17:23 via saultstar.com
  
  Have a conflict of interest? Head for the door … pronto. Algoma Public Health’s Governance Committee recently reviewed, and amended, its conflict-of-interest policy to clarify that a board member who has declared a conflict must leave the meeting – and any subsequent meetings – while the matter is under consideration.Governance Committee chair Don McConnell said that, previously, some policy language was vague. “And the difference in that is when we stress if some
  
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• Scram if too cozy to the topic: Algoma Public Health

  11-06-2026 17:23 via saultstar.com
  
  Have a conflict of interest? Head for the door … pronto. Algoma Public Health’s Governance Committee recently reviewed, and amended, its conflict-of-interest policy to clarify that a board member who has declared a conflict must leave the meeting – and any subsequent meetings – while the matter is under consideration.Governance Committee chair Don McConnell said that, previously, some policy language was vague. “And the difference in that is when we stress if some
  
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• City council considers beer sales at Hounds games in 2001: IN OTHER YEARS

  11-06-2026 06:01 via saultstar.com
  
  June 11, 2001City council decides today whether or not to approve the submission of an application for the sale of beer in the stands during home games of the Soo Greyhounds at Memorial Gardens. June 11, 1976A Queen Street East supermarket empty for four years reopened this morning as the Sault’s new depot for inter-city buses. The station occupies about 8,500 square feet of the eastern end of the former Loblaws supermarket near Gore Street. June 11, 1951Marie Arcangeletti and David Beato
  
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• Hundreds of abrasions found on slain London woman, murder trial hears

  11-06-2026 02:52 via saultstar.com
  
  ST. THOMAS – The red semi-circular wounds practically covered Caitlin Jennings’ head, face, back, arms and legs.They were “abrasions,” or scrapes to the skin, most of them semi-circular in shape, caused by blunt-force trauma. At David Yates’ second-degree murder trial, Dr. Michael Shkrum, the forensic pathologist who conducted Jennings’ autopsy, testified he counted “about 200 abrasions.”Where there wasn’t a scrape breaking the skin, the 22-
  
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• Demolition begins on former General Hospital

  10-06-2026 20:01 via saultstar.com
  
  Mayor Matthew Shoemaker grinned as the massive green arm of a GIP vehicle ripped the first pieces of the former General Hospital off the roof and exterior wall. One piece at a time, in what will be labourous work for the next five months or so, the former hospital site will be torn apart, the materials sorted and either recycled or crumbled and buried on site, making way for new housing and/or commercial development.The demolition, which began on the Lucy Street side of the building, is expecte
  
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• Break-in suspect cuffed by Sault police

  10-06-2026 17:02 via saultstar.com
  A downtown residence was broken into on June 1.One suspect was found in the property in the 0 to 100 block of Abbott Street, police say. A second suspect fled, but was located on Tuesday.Gerald Burns, 55, was charged with break, enter a dwelling house, commit indictable offence, theft under $5,000 and possession of property obtained by crime under $5,000.His court date is Aug. 31.
  
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• Sault woman Ingram wanted by police

  10-06-2026 16:55 via saultstar.com
  
  Trisha-Lynn Ingram is wanted by police.Ingram, 45, is sought on 23 charges including stunt driving, driving while under suspension and four counts theft under $5,000, a release says.Anyone with Ingram can call Sault Ste. Marie Police Service at 705-949-6300 or Crime Stoppers at 705-942-7867 or saultcrimestoppers.com.
  
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• One acts keep Shot in the Dark 'on your toes'

  10-06-2026 15:48 via saultstar.com
  
  Shot in the Dark keeps taking aim at something new.The Sault Ste. Marie theatre company started doing murder mysteries for private shows more than 25 years ago. Its first full-fledged production, Working, was in 2000. Collaborations with Sault Symphony Orchestra brought Jesus Christ Superstar and Evita to the stage. Dinner theatre was offered when Here on the Flight Path landed at the former Riuniti Hall in 2005. The Who’s Tommy came to The Machine Shop in 2015. Shot in the Dark teamed up
  
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• Accused’s notebook details remorse after London woman’s killing

  10-06-2026 15:30 via saultstar.com
  
  ST. THOMAS – It was his confession, his explanation and his suicide note.The words, written in pencil across dozens of pages in a notebook found on the dining-room table of David Yates’s London home, appeared to be his attempt to explain why he beat his girlfriend, Caitlin Jennings, 22, to death in a hammer attack.Caitlin’s father, Dan Jennings, of Sault Ste. Marie, has been an advocate of implementing stronger IPV legislation.“I killed my best friend. I have to go. I wi
  
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