Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — Barrie remains the hotbed of local COVID cases and epicentre of the UK variant in Ontario. With 129 regional cases reported since Friday — mostly in Barrie with none in Muskoka — two GTA retirement homes are banning visitors from Barrie where the UK variant is among the highest […]

HUNTSVILLE — Police charged three people Friday in an afternoon traffic stop. The OPP’s Muskoka Community Street Crime Unit (CSCU) was doing an investigation into drug trafficking. At 4:15 p.m. they say officers stopped a vehicle on Centre Street, with the assistance of the Huntsville OPP, arresting the three and finding a quantity of drugs: […]

Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com ORILLIA — Having a heart attack? If you’re in Orillia and you go to the hospital, you’ll be immediately shipped to Barrie’s RVH. Patients who present at Orillia Soldiers’ Memorial Hospital (OSMH) with heart attack symptoms will now be transported directly to Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre’s (RVH) Cardiac Intervention Unit […]

Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — The residents of Muskoka are being “very vigilant” in keeping COVID and its variant at bay. “And we hope they keep it that way,” Dr. Colin Lee, Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit’s (SMDHU) associate medical officer of health, said today. In a Friday afternoon news briefing on the UK […]

Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — With Canada frowning on foreign flights due to rising variant fears, new numbers today in Simcoe-Muskoka show a man in Bracebridge and 36 people in Barrie among 65 new COVID cases today. And one more death in Simcoe. The Bracebridge resident — first diagnosed and reported for yesterday — […]

LAKE OF BAYS — Firefighters battled heavy fire and frigid temperatures last night to bring a house fire blaze under control last night. The Huntsville/Lake of Bays Fire Department responded to a report of a structure fire on Paint Lake Road at 8:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 28. Crews from Baysville Station 40 with assistance from […]

BARRIE — Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre (RVH) says late this afternoon that it has declared another COVID-19 outbreak on another inpatient unit. And that 42 people now have the corona-virus — and 6 people have died as a result. The Specialized Seniors Care Unit is in addition to the Integrated Stroke and Rehabilitation Unit […]

MUSKOKA — You can bank on the ‘Big 5’ banks to invest in fossil fuels, says Climate Action Muskoka (CAM). The activists group is joining forces with groups across Canada tomorrow to say ‘Fossil Banks? No Thanks!’ to Canada’s five largest banks. CAM is inviting everyone to call, fax, and email their local bank branches […]