Author Archives: Bayshore News Team

Orillia District Collegiate and Vocational Institute closed in 2016 and now the County of Simcoe has bought the West Street property. The plan is to turn the site into a regional services hub. That co...

A six year old boy is at Sick Kids Hospital after tumbling 40 feet from a rock climbing wall at Horseshoe Resort. Benjamin McDermott of Oro-Medonte Township was at the top of the wall when he fell las...

The OPP are conducting an internal review their mental health initiatives. This comes in the wake of the deaths of 3 OPP officers due to suicide in recent weeks. Commissioner Vince Hawkes and Doctor J...

Some hockey legends were on hand to open up the renovated outpatient paediatric unit at Orillia Soldiers' Memorial Hospital. A grand opening took place Thursday afternoon just outside the unit. E...

The Kitchener Panthers are in control of the Intercounty Baseball League finals. They managed to hold Barrie's offence to just one hit in a 1-0, 11-inning victory over the defending league champi...

Forecasters say a tornado that struck Oro-Medonte on Monday evening had wind speeds of 120 kilometres per hour and tracked from Guthrie to Oro Station and possibly across Lake Simcoe. That ranks the t...

A Tesla car was demolished after a wild crash in Barrie. Police say around eight last night(TUES), a vehicle travelling at a high rate of speed northbound on Little Avenue approached an incline leadin...

A 48 year old Barrie man has been charged with 10 counts of fraudulent use of a credit card. Barrie police say the suspect stole a wallet from a vehicle last week and then went on a spending spree wit...

An Innisfil man has been charged with fraud, accused of scamming Ontario Works out of more than $10,000. Investigators received a report of fraudulent activity in June regarding a social assistance re...

The Gravenhurst fire department has received $25,000 to be put towards the purchase and equipment costs of its newly ordered tanker truck. The money comes from a grant program offered to rural communi...