Category Archives: Orillia News

Barrie city council has unveiled its priorities for the second half of the term. The new goals include: providing serviced employment lands and other supports to help businesses grow; focus on support...

Thirteen new additions, including the Proud Boys, have been made to the Canada's Criminal Code list of terrorist entities Public Safety Minister Bill Blair announced the move yesterday. "Violent acts ...

More travel restrictions take effect across the country today. ' All international passenger flights must now land at only four airports in Canada--Vancouver, Toronto, Calgary, and Montreal. We could ...

More Ontario businesses may soon be allowed to reopen. Premier Doug Ford says an announcement regarding the eventual reopening of the economy could be made as early as next week. Ford made the comment...

For the second time in as many days, there has been a collision involving a snowmobile and a vehicle. The crash happened on Highway 12 east of Triple Bay Road in Tay Township at a crossing locally kno...

Four more deaths related to COVID19 and 45 new infections have been reported in the Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit's latest update. The deaths were all women over 80, three from Barrie's Roberta ...

A Coldwater resident is celebrating a recent lottery win. Andrew Price won 100-thousand dollars playing Encore, by matching the last six of seven numbers in exact order in the December 19, 2020 LOTTO ...

A traffic stop in Orillia has resulted in drug charges. Shortly after midnight, officers stopped a vehicle with a potentially dangerous defect on Matchedash Street North and recognized the passenger. ...

Students in Simcoe County and Muskoka will return to in-person learning on Monday. Education Minister Stephen Lecce announced today that the decision was based on the advice of the province's chief me...

The City of Barrie has joined a province-wide monitoring program, testing wastewater for COVID 19. Studies have shown that people with active infections shed the virus in their stool, even when they h...