Sault Ste. Marie

By IAN ROSS Northern Ontario Business If you're a homesick Sault Ste. Marie ex-pat teaching English overseas or a local news junkie wondering what's happening at city hall, SooToday.com has become the preferred choice for information.

By KELLY LOUISEIZE Northern Ontario Business Algoma Tubes, once a subsidiary business of Algoma Steel, has risen from the ashes after being moth balled and later sold to Tenaris Group, a multi-national seamless tubing operation.

With the increasing need of more qualified people in the rail industry, Sault College will be offering a new course this fall.

By RICK HOULE Tom Stephenson, café manager at Sault Ste. Marie's Hidden Bay Café, has recognized the growing trend in laptop computer use and has added a wireless Internet connection to his establishment.

By IAN ROSS Sault Ste. Marie could be the site of one of the world's first commercial uses of a cogeneration plant powered by bio oil.

Brascan Power Corp., the parent company of Sault Ste. Marie's Great Lakes Power Ltd., is investing $85.8 million to upgrade 164 kilometres of transmission lines between Sault Ste. Marie and Wawa in northeastern Ontario. Comstock Canada Ltd.

By IAN ROSS If there was ever a time for the Sault Ste. Marie Innovation Centre to get its act together, the time is now, says a board member of the struggling business development organization.

A Sudbury-based company specializing in voice and data underground communications systems was among several northern regional award winners announced at the 7th annual Ontario Global Traders Awards on April 15 in Sault Ste. Marie.

By IAN ROSS Sault Ste. Marie – To Jayson Zwierschke, garbage is a valuable resource that’s being buried.

By IAN ROSS Kevin Karhi subscribes to the mantra of working smarter, not harder. The 31-year-old Desbarats native (east of Sault Ste.