Category Archives: Local News

Orillia Council has adopted a motion by Ward 2 Councillor Pete Bowen to ask the Ministry of Transport to make sure any animal habitat corridor under the new Highway 12 by pass bridge is wide enough. H...

Orillia council Monday night will be asked to consider the creation of a Sports Hall of Fame . A report to council from the Recreation Advisory Committee says the creation of a Sports Hall of Fame wou...

This no April Fools joke. Some one has stolen a lot of copper wire from a local construction firm. Orillia OPP say the theft occurred at J & G Stewart Construction in Severn Township. The business...

Orillia is moving up in the rankings as being one of the best place to live in Canada for this year according to Money Sense Magazine. The latest ranking put the Sunshine Town at 53 in the national ra...

It was gunshot wounds that killed two people in a brutal murder in Elmvale. Provincial police have released autopsy details and the findings show that 53-year-old Donald White and his 51-year-old wife...

Searches have resumed in Bradford for Curtis Barry, who has been missing since July 19th. Thanks to melting snow teams were able to re-search the Scanlon Creek Conservation Area earlier this week, but...

New details tell us that the Molson Brewery marijuana grow op was bringing in nearly 8 million dollars annually. The abandoned Barrie brewery grew thousands of marijuana plants for about two years wit...

It's down to five for the 2010 Stephen Leacock literary award. The Orillia based Stephen Leacock Association awards the annual prize to the book judged to be the most humorous one published in Canada ...

The big names just keep on coming as far as this years Mariposa folk festival is concerned. Earlier this week, the Festival announced 7 more artists who will grace the stage on the weekend of July 8 t...

A special meeting today between Simcoe North MPP Garfield Dunlop, Simcoe County Municipal leaders and a lawyer involved in Municipal affairs. Dunlop says this meeting is to talk about the controversia...