Category Archives: Orillia News

Last night, just before 8:30 p.m., the Barrie Police Service arrested the outstanding suspect in the homicide of a 47-year-old male that occurred on the morning of Monday, February 20, 2023. The Barri...

About two million air fryers sold in the U.S. Canada and Mexico are being recalled because they can catch fire. The recall involves Cosori Brand fryers - they were sold between June of 2018 and Decemb...

There's been a fatal crash on Highway 11 in the Huntsville area. OPP say it happened Wednesday night when a vehicle left the highway between Madill Church Road and Stephenson Road 12. The 32 year-old ...

There has been a homicide in downtown Barrie. City police say a 47-year-old man died in hospital after an altercation Monday morning involving a group of people on Collier Street. Police say the victi...

The City of Barrie is hosting a free outdoor Family Day event at the Barrie Community Sports Complex on Nursery Road in Midhurst. They're offering activities like skating, tobogganing, snowshoeing, an...

This is the family day provincial holiday, so many businesses and services will be closed, or be operating on reduced hours. Schools, banks, and provincial and municipal government offices are closed....

Southern Georgian Bay OPP are investigating a collision that sent four people to hospital on Sunday evening. One person had to be transported to a Toronto-area hospital via ORNGE air ambulance. The co...

Budding poets are invited to enter a poetry contest held by Orillia's Leacock Museum. The annual K. Valerie Connor Memorial Poetry Celebration contest has over $2,000 in prize money. It's open to subm...

There's a contest underway in Ramara, to name some unusual machinery. The Lagoon City Parks and Waterways Commission has a couple of weed harvestors and a barge, which it uses to keep canals weed free...

The OPP have released new photos of suspects in the kidnapping of Elnaz Hajtamiri from Wasaga Beach just over a year ago. There are two men and a woman who police belive are residents of the GTA. The ...