Tag: Huron
Police seize more than $120K in stolen vehicles, drugs, cash in rural raid
Police in Huron and Bruce counties seized more than $120,000 in stolen vehicles, drugs, cash, and weapons after a rural property on the county border was raided.
Stolen cars, drugs and weapons found by police at Huron-Bruce Road property
Two South Bruce residents are facing several drugs, weapons and theft charges after an investigation by several OPP police units turned up illegal drugs, weapons, cash, and stolen property with a total value exceeding $123,000. The Huron-Perth and Grey-Bruce Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Community Street Crimes Unit (CSCU), West Region OPP Emergency Response Team (ERT), […]
Stolen truck towing livestock trailer recovered in Kincardine, charges laid
A North Huron resident has been charged in the theft of a truck and trailer that were later found abandoned. On Sept. 18 at 4:52 a.m., South Bruce OPP received a report of a stolen pickup truck with a livestock trailer attached being taken from an address along Sideroad 15 North in Kincardine. The vehicle […]
Who is working to preserve and restore wetlands in Metro Detroit? | Great Lakes Now
By Erica Hobbs, Planet Detroit
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Wetlands don’t often come to mind when thinking about major metropolitan cities like Detroit. Bogs, marshes, vernal pools, and swamps contrast starkly with the city’s skyscrapers, roads, and industrial plants, and up to 90 percent of the area’s wetlands along the Detroit River have been lost since European settlement.
Man, 49, charged after homeowner’s dog, cat stolen during break-in
A cat and dog were reunited with their owner after being stolen during a break-in at a Kincardine home, police say. The South Bruce detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police says the victimâs cat and dog were stolen during a break-in at around 10 a.m. Sunday at a house on Bruce Road 20 in the […]
Detective details how DNA, genealogy and police solved eight-year mystery
His name was Garnet Michael Nelson. His long way home is finally over. Itâs taken eight years to confirm the homeless drifter’s identity and to end a nagging mystery about the body found on the beach at Port Albert, north of Goderich in October 2016. At the time the body was found, police had a […]
I Speak for the Fish: A Sturgeon goes to Wisconsin and a Michigan muskie visits New York | Great Lakes Now
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91-year-old killed in crash involving mobility scooter, SUV
An elderly person riding a mobility scooter was killed in a crash involving an SUV on Monday in Goderich, police say. It was about 10:30 a.m. on Monday when Ontario Provincial Police in Huron County say officers were called along with paramedics and firefighters to the collision at Blake Street East and Gibbons Street in […]
Annual Handbags for Hospice fundraiser returns Sept. 19
Huron Shores Hospice is holding its 8th annual Handbags for Hospice event this week, bringing 170 women and men together for a fabulous evening of handbags, food, drink, laughs, fun and fundraising at the Kincardine Pavilion. The Sept. 19 event begins at 6 p.m. with the silent auction of nearly 100 high-end handbags. A short program […]
Police identify body discovered on Lake Huron shoreline eight years ago
ASHFIELD-COLBORNE-WAWANOSH – Police have identified the body of a man who was found on the Lake Huron shoreline north of Port Albert eight years ago. The male human remains, OPP officials said, had been discovered on the shoreline on Oct. 15, 2016. The adult male was wearing a life jacket and, while the cause of […]