Category Archives: Orillia News
Fire & Ice Festival returns to Downtown Bracebridge - Volunteers Needed
The Fire and Ice Festival returns to Downtown Bracebridge on Saturday, January 27 from 9 am to 6 pm. Brought to you by the Downtown Bracebridge Business Improvement Area (BIA), this fan-favourite wint...
Jan 05, 2024
Brampton Resident Facing Drug Trafficking Charges
Members of the Orillia Detachments Community Street Crime Unit (CSCU) of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) have laid drug trafficking-related charges and seized a quantity of drugs destined for Simc...
Jan 04, 2024
OSMH declares COVID-19 outbreak on Inpatient Mental Health Unit
Orillia Soldiers' Memorial Hospital (OSMH), in collaboration with the Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit, declared a COVID-19 outbreak on the hospital's C6 Mental Health Inpatient Unit on December 31...
Jan 03, 2024 Source: OSMH
One Person Charged Following Break, Enter & Theft at Motel in Gravenhurst
Bracebridge Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) has charged a local man for break, enter and theft at a motel in Gravenhurst. On December 31, 2023 Bracebridge OPP officers responded to a break and enter a...
Jan 02, 2024
Southern Georgian Bay OPP Investigating Non-Suspicious Death In Tiny Township
Southern Georgian Bay OPP is investigating a death in Tiny Township. Police were called to a farm property on Baseline Road just before 2 p.m. yesterday. A 37-year-old man was pronounced dead and was ...
Dec 31, 2023 OPP Photo via Twitter.
Break, Enter & Theft at Huntsville Business
Huntsville Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) is investigating a break and enter to a commercial business in Huntsville that occurred overnight December 26, 2023. On December 27, 2023, at approximately 8...
Dec 28, 2023
OPP Seeking Facebook Market Fraud Suspects
The OPP is looking to arrest two suspects in relation to a province-wide fraud investigation. In October 2023, the Orillia OPP Detachment received a report from a victim having been defrauded when pur...
Dec 27, 2023 Source: OPP
RIDE Catches Impaired Driving Trying To Dodge RIDE Stop
The Orillia Detachment of the OPP is out in full force for the annual Christmas RIDE campaign. RIDE, which stands for Reduce Impaired Driving Everywhere, is focused on nabbing impaired drivers over th...
Dec 23, 2023
Freezing Rain Warning Covers Region, Slick Conditions Expected
Environment Canada says that there's a freezing rain warning in effect for the region this morning. The warning was issued just after 4 o'clock this morning. The forecast is calling for up to 2mm of i...
Dec 23, 2023 OakleyOriginals / CC
Paper Plates Seized by Orillia OPP.
Provincial police in Orillia say three suspects in a theft investigation have decent arts and crafts skills, but they're not good enough to avoid detection. Officers were called to a business on Monar...
Dec 22, 2023 OPP Photo