Category Archives: Orillia News

Our region starts the week with 170 new cases of COVID-19 and four more deaths. This is the number of cases in Simcoe/Muskoka since the last day of reporting which was Friday. The new cases include 80...

An order by the Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit (SMDHU) has placed Roberta Place Long Term Care Home in Barrie under the temporary leadership of Orillia Soldiers Memorial Hospital (OSMH. It's to h...

Get up to speed on vaccine rollout, local mental health resources and how to keep your family safe in our region during the ongoing pandemic. Community leaders, including Barrie Mayor Jeff Lehman, Sim...

Ontario's Health Minister says the Province is doing everything it can to get more Pfizer vaccine doses. Pfizer is currently retooling its plant in Belgium which is resulting in a shortage of vaccine ...

Charges have now been laid in a fatal incident involving a motorcycle, in Springwater Township. The OPP says that on July 10, a motorcycle collided with a farm tractor on Highway 26 west of Horseshoe ...

Another tragedy on area waters. Around two o'clock yesterday afternoon, OPP got a 911 call from several residents of Tay Point Road, known as Midland Point, that a snowmobile had just gone into open w...

OPP divers have found the bodies of two missing snowmobilers in Tay Township. Just after 11 o'clock this morning, the divers found the two people in the waters of Sturgeon Bay. Their names aren't bein...

The Canadian Red Cross has been deployed to a long-term care home in Barrie to help contain a massive COVID-19 outbreak. There are currently 62 residents out of a total 122 at Roberta Place Long Term ...

If you're feeling more depressed than usual these days, you're not the only one. Today is considered Blue Monday---the most depressing day of the year. The concept was first published in a 2005 press ...

One person had to be taken to hospital, following a fire at a mobile home in Springwater. The fire broke out on Friday afternoon on Sunnidale Road, sending one person to hospital for smoke inhalation....