Category Archives: Orillia News

Rounds Ranch is kicking off the summer season. It has added new activities this year, which will be running from 10:00 am to 5 pm today and tomorrow, when you can get special discounts on the Slip'N'S...

A man has been killed in a workplace accident in Barrie. A crane reportedly collapsed yesterday afternoon at a construction site for a new affordable housing project on Dunlop near Anne Street. The Mi...

A major construction project in Barrie is finally complete. The Harvie Rd./Big Bay Point Rd./Highway 400 crossing opened at 9 o'clock last night. This project took the last four years to complete and ...

A sign campaign has begun in Barrie to show "Hate Has No Home Here". Barrie Families Unite has created lawn signs to be distributed across the city and the first order of 500 quickly sold out, so anot...

There are increasing calls for Canada Day celebrations to be cancelled across the country in response to recent unmarked grave discoveries at sites of former residential schools. Several municipalitie...

The Simcoe-Muskoka District Health unit is reporting 9 new COVID-19 cases and no new deaths. Today's report also includes 20 new recoveries. To date, 74 percent of Simcoe-Muskoka's over-18 population ...

The Harvie Rd./Big Bay Point Rd. Highway 400 crossing will open to the public Thursday at 9 p.m. The overpass has been built over the last four years and connects Harvie Rd. to Big Bay Point Rd. acros...

Cowessess First Nation of Saskatchewan reports 751 unmarked graves have been found on the grounds of the site of the former Marieval residential school east of Regina. Chief of the Federation of Sover...

It's official; the province will be moving to step 2 of its reopening plan two days ahead of schedule and just in time for Canada Day. Health Minister Christine Elliot says the decision was made becau...

A swim advisory has been issued at Minet's Point Beach. The health unit says the advisory is based on water sample results on Tuesday Signs will be put in place at the beach and more samples will be t...