Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com Subscribe: E-transfer $30 to news@muskokatoday.com ORILLIA — An OPP emergency response team member faces two charges of illegally discharging his firearm in a training session that did not require its use. The Ontario Provincial Police professional standards unit (PSU) said Aug. 27 that it charged the officer in relation the on-duty incident that […]

Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com Subscribe: E-transfer $30 to news@muskokatoday.com GRAVENHURST — A hulking black shell of a burned out police truck was a stark reminder this morning of a weekend fire that threatened the OPP’s Underwater Search and Rescue Unit here. A sooty smell hung over it in the parking lot here at its provincial headquarters […]

Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com Subscribe: E-transfer $30 to news@muskokatoday.com HUNTSVILLE — A delivery driver who was assaulted — but uninjured — had his valuable package stolen mid-afternoon yesterday by a thief who made a quick getaway. Police say that on Aug. 26, at about 2:53 p.m., officers responded to the report of a robbery that had […]

GRAVENHURST  — She’s back … tomorrow night, 6:30 p.m. Judy Humphries returns with another of her amazing and fun history talks about Gravenhurst at the Gravenhurst Library. After a postponement, local archivist and historian Humphries is back telling tales of the “The Sands,” as many locals still refer to today’s Taboo Resort. The Muskoka Sands […]

MUSKOKA — Looking ahead to Labour Day weekend police continue to charge drivers with impaired operation. Four the past week alone across Muskoka. Sunday two men were charged after single-vehicle collisions in which they left the road. On August 23, at 3:30 a.m., officers responded to a singe vehicle collision on Hwy. 141 in Muskoka […]

Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com Subscribe: E-transfer $30 to news@muskokatoday.com GRAVENHURST  — As fire investigators continue a second-day probe in to the cause of Saturday night’s blackening blaze inside the headquarters of the OPP’s Underwater Search and Rescue Unit, its provincial operations here are halted for at least the time being. Which appears to leave any calls […]

HUNTSVILLE — A small fire reported at 11 a.m. was cleared by noon today inside a public washroom at the town hall that closed the offices for the rest of the day. The cause is under investigation and no injuries were involved. The town said early this afternoon that at about 11:02 a.m., the Huntsville […]

Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com Subscribe: E-transfer $30 to news@muskokatoday.com GRAVENHURST — Ontario Fire Marshal investigators were at the OPP’s Underwater Search and Rescue Unit base here today on a rainy Sunday, after a significant fire scorched the location here on Bethune Drive just before 7 p.m. Saturday. They expect to be here another day or two […]