Category Archives: Orillia News

Police are looking for witnesses and dash cam footage in relation to an arson investigation involving an animal in Orillia. September 16th at 5 pm, the OPP along with Orillia Fire attended the interse...

The Orillia Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) have arrested a male party in relation to a Voyeurism investigation. On August 27, 2024, officers from Orillia OPP responded to a report o...

The SIU has wrapped up an investigation of a fatal crash near Wasaga Beach earlier this summer. On July 3, an OPP officer clocked a Tesla doing 118 along Crossland Road. Intending to initiate a traffi...

The County of Simcoe has a new tool to help people track rental prices. The rental market aggregator shows the average asking prices for rentals across individual communities and the county as a whole...

Southern Georgian Bay OPP are investigating a fail-to-remain collision involving a pedestrian in the early hours of Saturday morning. Police were called to the parking lot of a convenience store on Mi...

Despite a mixed bag of weather earlier this month, Southern Georgian Bay OPP were able to continue day and night patrols on local waterways. Police checked 49 vessels during their 53 hours of patrol i...

A series of raids at four places in Simcoe County Tuesday has resulted in charges against five people, and the seizure of drugs, weapons, cash and Nazi paraphernalia. Orillia OPP started looking into ...

An ebike battery sparked a fire in Orillia Tuesday morning, almost directly across the street from fire station 2. The fire was contained to a garage at a house at West Street and Commerce Road around...

A small plane crash landed at the Lake Simcoe Regional airport south of Orillia Tuesday afternoon. No injuries were reported but there was a fire, and heavy damage to the twin engine plane. The Transp...

OPP across the province are urging motorcyclists and motorists alike to be alert, be cautious, and avoid risky driving behaviours following a spike in motorcyclist fatalities. They say that 36 motorcy...