Category Archives: Orillia News

The County of Simcoe is implementing its reduced load restriction period beginning on March 8, 2025. During this time no commercial motor vehicle can be operated on a highway that is part of the Count...

Officers from the Orillia Community Street Crime Unit of the OPP have taken firearms and drugs off the streets following search warrants on a residence and a vehicle. An investigation into drug traffi...

The Canadian Press has named the provincial riding of Barrie-Springwater-Oro-Medonte as one of ten to watch on election day. The incumbent is Conservative Doug Downey who was very nearly unseated by t...

Southern Georgian Bay OPP are asking the public for help with their investigation into a break and enter theft and mischief investigation. The incident happened at St. Mary's Church, Victoria Harbour....

Two people were sent to hospital following a collision between a snowmobile and a motor vehicle. The crash happened at the intersection of Highway 12 and Atherley Road in Orillia. At around noon on Sa...

Orillia OPP are investigating a case of trespassing on Clinton Street. On February 22nd, police were called to a home at around 1:30 am, for a report of a suspicious person trying to gain access throu...

Two men with violent histories have gone missing from the minimum security unit at Gravenhurst's Beaver Creek Institution. They did not show up for a head count Wednesday evening. Jay Sedore is 70 yea...

OPP charged one person following a dispute at a Midland apartment on Friday. Southern Georgian Bay OPP were called to an apartment complex on King Street at around 4 o'clock that afternoon. A woman ha...

Orillia OPP's Community Street Crimes Unit has charged four people with drug-related charges following a search in the city. On Friday, February 14th, police executed an early morning search warrant a...

Another case of arson in Orillia. OPP are investigating a fire at a Barrie Road residence this morning (Friday Feb.14) Police say the Ontario Fire Marshall determined the fire started in the hallway o...