Category Archives: Local News

A propane tanker has been removed from the site of freight-train derailment in Ontario cottage country. Mike Lovecchio of CP Rail says the tanker was removed about 11 p.m. last night. Today, the clean...

If you want to give Ontario Finance Minister Dwight Duncan some advice on his upcoming Provincial budget, you can get a chance to do that next week. Simcoe North MPP Garfield Dunlop is hosting two pre...

Quite a mess up around Several Falls, where a 90 car freight train derailed early this morning 21 cars including a propane tank car left the tracks and smashed into the cars of another parked freight ...

Orillia City Council looks to be moving ahead with a plan to reopen the Orillia Community Centre for local use for a trial project. A recommendation was put forward by City recreation staff to rent ou...

The flu outbreak at Orillia's Soildiers' Memorial Hospital has elevated. In light of a second case of Influenza A the OSMH along with the Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit have officially declared a...

Sunday was the fifth anniversary of Stepen Harper being elected Prime Minister and both he and Simcoe North Conservative Mp Bruce Stanton agree that Canada is more united, stronger, safer and more pro...

Simcoe North MPP Garfield Dunlop putting partisan politics aside to wish Barrie Liberal MPP Aileen Carroll all the best as she leaves the political arena. Carroll has announced she will not be seeking...

The Simcoe Muskoka Medical Officer of Health trying to set the record straight surrounding vaccines. In his regular Health column, Dr. Charles Gardner says he wants to dispell some of the so called my...

We now know the name of the woman killed in a 40 car pile up on Highway 11 between Barrie and Orillia. 22 year old Connie Ward of Barrie got out of her vehicle to check the damage and was hit by anoth...

Lots of people will be slipping and sliding at the Couchiching Golf and Country Club this afternoon as the third annual cardboard box toboggan races get under way. Roz Llewellyn, Orillia recreation pr...