Category Archives: Orillia News

A 35-year-old Barrie resident faces charges after police say they pulled the vehicle they were driving into a police detachment parking lot while impaired. A uniform officer with the Southern Georgian...

$7.1 million is going to Georgian College via the Provincial Government to help the college address the financial impacts of COVID-19. Doug Downey, MPP for Barrie-Springwater-Oro-Medonte, says Georgia...

More shots are coming. That's the message from Premier Doug Ford today. He says over 50 percent of Ontario residents over 80 have received their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, and yesterday was a...

Spring officially arrives this weekend. The spring equinox in the Northern Hemisphere occurs at 5:37 A.M. EDT tomorrow (Saturday) morning. It occurs when the Sun crosses the equator line, heading nort...

A single-vehicle collision on Highway 12 resulted in a driver being sent to a Toronto hospital by air ambulance with possible life-altering injuries. Wednesday just after 3:30 pm police responded to t...

The plan to roll out vaccine delivery in Simcoe-Muskoka has been addressed by the Province. They are currently continuing Phase 1 of the rollout, which sees those living in congregate living centres f...

Ten people have been charged with 268 offences after an eight-month investigation into weapons and drug trafficking in southwestern Ontario. On March 9th, police executed search warrants at several On...

The City of Orillia presented more than $66,000 in grants to two new projects in the City's core through the first intake of the 2021 Downtown Tomorrow Community Improvement Plan (DTCIP) grant program...

A team of six from Georgian's paramedic programs is travelling to a fly-in Indigenous community in northern Ontario to administer COVID-19 vaccinations. Georgian is the only college in Ontario to part...

Seventy-seven acres of wilderness along the Black River in Dalton Township is now permanently protected by The Couchiching Conservancy, thanks to a donation by the Marley family. Located 17 kilometres...