Category Archives: Orillia News

Billboards and mobile ads are appearing across the Barrie area, as city police try to generate new leads in the disappearance of Autumn Shaganash. She was reported missing last June and was last seen ...

Orillia OPP says that their proactive efforts led to the arrest of two people on impaired driving charges. Just before 8 p.m. Thursday, an officer was patrolling the area of West Street South in Orill...

The province's Special Investigations Unit is now looking into an incident this weekend that led to police discharging an Anti-Riot Weapon Enfield at a 33-year-old man. At around 4:30 on Friday mornin...

Two people are now charged with impaired driving after Orillia OPP got a report of an incident at a local care home. Police were called early yesterday afternoon when a resident of the home was leavin...

A 22-year-old from Wasaga Beach is now facing a drug trafficking charge following a search being carried out by police. Huronia West OPP executed the search warrant as part of a drug trafficking inves...

Nearly 13,000 people have added their names to an on-line petition, asking the provincial government to name Highway 400 after Gordon Lightfoot. The music icon, who was born in Orillia, died last spri...

Southern Georgian Bay OPP says that a Christian Island resident is now facing theft-related charges after he was apprehended by a citizen. Police received a call of someone trying to break into a vehi...

Simcoe County is pulling the plug on an organics and recycling facility that was first proposed more than a decade ago. County Councillors have voted to cancel the project, proposed for a plot of land...

Southern Georgian Bay OPP has charged one person following a theft investigation at a Midland convenience store. The store clerk called police when the person, who was the suspect in an incident at th...

Orillia OPP's Community Street Crimes Unit has laid drug trafficking charges following an investigation that led to the seizure of drugs and cash. Police started their investigation last month into a ...