Category Archives: Collingwood News

Clearview Township says it has made the tough decision to close and stop the formation of outdoor ice rinks on public property. In a news release, the township says in many surrounding communities, un...

A good way to end the year in area home sales. House sales for the Southern Georgian Bay region totalled 270 units in December 2020. This was a large increase of 36.4% from December 2019 and was a new...

Our region now has a whopping 516 cases of COVID-19 this week, the highest weekly number since the start of the pandemic. To put that into perspective, there were 376 cases last week. The number of ne...

More vaccines are on the way. That from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau today, who says this week over 124,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine were delivered to 68 sites across the country. "Over 208,(000) ...

Premier Doug Ford is appealing to the public to follow public health guidelines, or the province-wide lockdown will be extended past the current January 23rd deadline. This morning Ford said public he...

You can have your say on a cannabis retail store proposed for Wasaga Beach. An application for a store at 1890 Mosley Street Unit 2 has now entered the 15 day public notice phase. This is the part of ...

The City of Barrie is collaborating with Regional Tourism Organization 7 (RTO7), Grey County, Simcoe County and the City of Orillia to administer the COVID-19 Tourism Response Fund to tourism operator...

The OPP is investigating several thefts from parked motor vehicles that have taken place near entrances to hiking trails in The Blue Mountains. In the last month OPP officers have received six complai...

Starting today, hundreds of federal inmates will begin to receive COVID-19 vaccines as part of a pilot project. It's a move that has sparked plenty of debate about who is being prioritized in the earl...

U.S. President Donald Trump has finally conceded the 2020 election to president-elect Joe Biden. Trump posted a new video to Twitter on Thursday night, promising a smooth transition of power on Januar...