The print edition of Star is published on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, with regular news coverage also provided through the paper's website.

Relying on a special wire run and operated by the CPR Telegraph Company, the Currans boasted that "The Sault Daily Star will give the news just one day ahead of the Toronto papers.

[4] In 1905, James Curran replaced the second-hand equipment with new modern presses of the day and moved the-then The Sault Weekly Star to a two-story building at 374 Queen Street East in the city's downtown.

[4] After 74 years and three generations of family ownership, in April 1975 Robert Curran, announced the sale of the paper to Southam Press, one of the Canada’s largest publicly owned newspaper publishing companies.

[10] The sale gave the Star access to Southam’s bureaus in Ottawa, Toronto, Washington, London, Paris and Peking, as well as to the Financial Times news service.

In February 1979, the paper moved from its Queen Street location to a new 30,000 square foot, $1.4 million facility at 145 Old Garden River Road in the city's north-east.

[12] On the afternoon of June 19, 1992, newsroom, photography, advertising, composing, circulation and mail employees set up a picket line in front of the Sault Star building.

Issues centred around compensation and job security at a time when Canada’s newspapers, fighting television for advertisers and audiences, saw payroll reductions as the path to profitability.

[16] In July 1992, during the midst of the dispute, Southam announced that Montreal Gazette general manager Bob Richardson would replace Wilson as publisher.

In November 1992, Hollinger Incorporated, a Toronto-based media company owned by financier Conrad Black purchased a 23 per cent stake in Southam.

[17] While Hollinger give official lip service to the autonomy of local papers, Black began pursuing a program of “de-manning” to reduce Southam’s payroll by $40 million annually.

At the time, publisher Richardson indicated that layoffs could come if advertising revenues did not improve and that the Star was also considering cancelling its membership in the Canadian Press wire service as a potential cost reduction.

[20] Describing Southam’s papers a “mediocre product,” Hollinger moved quickly to cut costs and influence content in a more conservative direction to end what Black called an “overwhelming avalanche of soft, left, bland, envious pap which has poured like sludge through the centre pages of Southam papers for some time.”[21] In late April 1999, The Star’s print masthead was changed from “A division of Southam Inc.” to “A division of Hollinger Canadian Newspapers L.P.” However, almost a year later, in a surprise move intended to boost its stock price and reduce over $2 billion in debt, Hollinger put The Sault Star and 50 of its other papers up for sale.

[22] In August 2002, facing bankruptcy Hollinger sold The Sault Star and 28 other Ontario-based community papers to the newly formed Osprey Media for $220 million.

[24] Calling it "a necessary step for us to reduce our labour and capital expenses to help offset the dramatic declines in advertising revenues we are experiencing as a result of the economic downturn," in April 2009, the publisher moved pre-press production to a non-unionized facility in Barrie which was handling similar duties for other Sun Media papers.

[25] In May 2014, Sun Media announced that printing of the Sault Star would be moved to the facilities of the North Bay Nugget, resulting in the loss of 23 jobs in the press and mailing room.

As part of its strategy to raise capital across its newspaper holdings by divesting of assets and real estate, in May 2017, Postmedia sold the Star's headquarters at 145 Old Garden River Road to DiTommaso Investments for an undisclosed sum.

[32] As of 2023, Postmedia employs five staff at the Sault Star: four multimedia journalists working remotely and reporting to editors in Sudbury, and one position responsible for reader sales and circulation.

The challenge gathered attention from across North America, including a 1993 inquiry from Ripley's Believe It or Not!, and attracted over 300 claims, but never one that The Star paid out.

[40] In 1986, Star reporter Karen Lewis won a Canadian Science Writers Association award for a piece on efforts to control invasive sea lamprey in the Great Lakes.

[41] Features reporter Alisa Priddle won a 1987 provincial journalism award for a piece on the marginalization of lesbians in the Sault that appeared in the Star’s “Starlight” weekend magazine.

[42] Joe Warmington received a 1988 award from the Thunder Bay Press Club for his investigative series on the failure of local hospitals to meet provincial regulatory standards in their incineration practices.