Category Archives: Orillia News

Barrie Police have made an arrest after a report of suspicious activity led to the seizure of drugs and a loaded gun in the City. Tuesday afternoon they responded to a report of a suspicious vehicle i...

A pair of kayakers were rescued from the Minesing Swamp by helicopter this week. OPP received a call at 7:45 p.m. on Sunday from a pair of 18-year-old kayakers that had become lost in the swamp and ne...

Charges have been laid in Orillia after police seized a loaded handgun while a RIDE stop was underway. At around 1 am today, police conducting a RIDE check on Atherley Rd had a brief interaction with ...

A fire Monday evening at the Beaver Creek Institution in Gravenhurst was put out by the building's sprinkler system. Gravenhurst fire crews responded to the medium security area of the correctional fa...

A group called Ripple of Kindness Barrie has set up a go fund me page for the families of six Barrie young people, who died in a car crash on the weekend. The page had already raised about 40 thousand...

It was a rowdy weekend in Wasaga Beach, where police were kept busy with an unsanctioned car rally. The windows of two police cruisers were smashed but officers and a police dog inside were not injure...

The city of Barrie says the scene of a crash on the weekend where six people died, was a construction zone which had been closed since the spring. There has been sewer and road work along McKay Road a...

Biotechnology company Moderna is suing its competitors for violating their patents for messenger RNA therapeutics and vaccines. Moderna has filed infringement lawsuits against Pfizer and BioNTech in b...

The Commission that oversees Electoral Boundaries is looking at tweaking a local riding to account for population growth. The proposed redistribution would see a new riding of Penetanguishene-Couchich...

Orillia OPP are looking for the assistance of the public to identify two suspects related to the theft of multiple items from a Ramara business. On August 6 between 6:30 a.m. and 7:00 am, two suspects...