Category Archives: Collingwood News

More Ontario businesses may soon be allowed to reopen. Premier Doug Ford says an announcement regarding the eventual reopening of the economy could be made as early as next week. Ford made the comment...

For the second time in as many days, there has been a collision involving a snowmobile and a vehicle. The crash happened on Highway 12 east of Triple Bay Road in Tay Township at a crossing locally kno...

Four more deaths related to COVID19 and 45 new infections have been reported in the Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit's latest update. The deaths were all women over 80, three from Barrie's Roberta ...

Students in Simcoe County and Muskoka will return to in-person learning on Monday. Education Minister Stephen Lecce announced today that the decision was based on the advice of the province's chief me...

The City of Barrie has joined a province-wide monitoring program, testing wastewater for COVID 19. Studies have shown that people with active infections shed the virus in their stool, even when they h...

Starting today, Public Health Ontario is ramping up capacity to screen all positive COVID-19 tests in Ontario for known variants. This new measure was announced earlier this week by Premier Doug Ford ...

The latest update by the Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit includes 36 new COVID-19 cases, along with five deaths related to the virus. Three of the victims were from Barrie, while one was from Wasa...

Registration is now open for the 2021 Virtual Polar Plunge in support of Special Olympics Ontario. The event encourages residents to get cold and creative for a worthy cause. All funds raised will sup...

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has announced a tentative deal to produce COVID-19 vaccines in Canada. Trudeau said, "This is a major step forward to get vaccines made in Canada, for Canadians." Novavax...

A teenager has been airlifted to hospital, after a collision involving a snowmobile and a transport truck in Springwater Township. The crash happened just after 11 this morning on County Road 27 just ...