Category Archives: Orillia News

Georgian College is celebrating Indigenous culture with its first Pow Wow At Home Virtual Festival. Students, faculty, staff and the public are invited to participate, celebrate and learn about Indige...

Today is expected to be the last day of unseasonably mild weather, before the normal winter temperatures return, just in time for the weekend. Flooding and unstable ice are the two major concerns at t...

Today is a National Day of Observance for COVID-19, a day to commemorate lives lost and the significant impacts the virus has had on society. It is the one-year anniversary of the World Health Organiz...

The City of Orillia and its Environmental Advisory Committee (EAC) is requesting input from residents, businesses, builders, and developers on a proposed Tree Preservation By-law through an online sur...

Simcoe-Muskoka residents aged 60-64 are being told to roll up their sleeves. The Ontario government has announced they will soon be able to receive the COVID-19 AstraZeneca vaccine at primary care and...

Southern Georgian Bay OPP have confiscated a loaded 9 mm handgun, after a robbery in Midland. Police say the weapon was seized in connection with an incident on Manly Street. No other details have bee...

The Ontario government announced the new Tourism Economic Recovery Ministerial Task Force. It will be chaired by former MPP and Cabinet minister Tim Hudak, and give expert advice and recommendations o...

It's hard to believe that it's been a year since the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a worldwide COVID-19 pandemic on March 11th, 2020. Sadly, that was the same day an elderly RVH patient die...

"Be kind to yourself and others." That's the message from our region's medical officer of health. Dr. Charles Gardner says while COVID-19 variants are a concern, the pandemic is also affecting people'...

Ontario's leading mental health and addiction organizations are coming together to say Everything Is Not OK. It's a new campaign that highlights the impacts of COVID-19 on the mental health of childre...