Category Archives: Local News

The Barrie Police Major Crime Unit has released photographs of three women and are looking to the public to identify them. It’s in connection with a shooting in the city’s downtown early E...

A 29-year-old man from Barrie was charged yesterday with possession of child sexual abuse and exploitation material, and accessing child sexual abuse and exploitation material. Barrie Police Service I...

Grocery store giant Sobeys is recalling a number of products containing cheese due to a possible listeria contamination. The products were sold nation-wide. In Ontario the stores that sold the product...

  A recent survey conducted on behalf of the Ontario Real Estate Association (OREA ) indicated that Ontarians are increasingly concerned about housing affordability, plus a growing share of rente...

Barrie Police are searching for a suspect after a shooting left a person wounded early yesterday. Officers were called to Dunlop Street East, between Owen and Mulcaster streets, around 3 a.m. Investig...

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has issued a recall of cheese products due to possible listeria contamination. The recall includes shredded cheese as well as certain salads and meal kits containin...

Southern Georgian Bay OPP have charged a 26-year-old man with impaired driving after a traffic stop led to a foot chase. Police were called by a business in Midland about a impaired driver. Officers h...

The Ford government has tabled legislation to slash regional governments in several sectors including Simcoe County. Ontario’s Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing unveiled the “Bette...

Ontario’s seat-belt law has passed the 50-year mark and OPP say nearly one in four road fatalities still involves someone who was not wearing a seat-belt. Last year, the OPP responded to 41 road...

The Simcoe County District School Board is holding a series of consultations for students, staff and parents in Black families to address what the Board acknowledges as systemic racism in education. T...