Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com TORONTO — Gravenhurst’s mayor is supporting a new volunteer provincial emergency group announced today to help in natural disasters like the one Gravenhurst is currently dealing with. Today Premier Doug Ford announced the creation of Ontario Corps, a group of skilled professionals and volunteers that the province can deploy to help communities respond […]

Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com COLLINGWOOD — As Muskoka grapples with a hospitals divide, the province said today it is investing up to $95.5 million to build a new replacement Collingwood General and Marine Hospital to serve Collingwood and South Georgian Bay with “care close to home.” It will include up to 132 new beds with […]

Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — Know a woman with a pair of work boots who’s not making a fashion statement? Has the rough hands of man and a rock grip to go with it? Or she knows which end of a gear stick to run a grader or back hoe? Perhaps she sits in […]

Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — Bold, brazen and part naïve, Muskoka police are reporting a new trend where fraudsters show up in person to collect cash or bank cards in an apparent attempt to increase their believability. And it happened here last night. At 7:30 p.m., Dec. 11, police received a call from the […]

Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — The morning commute was a whiteout today as snow squalls blew back in wiping out cars and delaying deliveries. You could hear groans from drivers stuck lamenting while nursing a latte after waking up to more white. “Not again!” their bodies shouted. Gravenhurst was again hit hardest from west […]

Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — While the weather played havoc with the start of the local festive concert season, the sounds of the season look promising this week. THURSDAY NIGHT: HUNTSVILLE ACTIVE LIVING But looking for something fun to do tomorrow night in Huntsville? Why not join the Huntsville Community Band at the Active […]

PORT CARLING — A stolen vehicle was spotted by police using an automated licence plate detector Monday in Muskoka Lakes Township. Police arrested them after recovering the stolen vehicle in Port Carling. They say that on December 9 at 3:45 p.m. an officer was conducting patrols on Muskoka Road 118 just west of Port Carling […]