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 […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com Subscribe: E-transfer $30 to news@muskokatoday.com MUSKOKA — Local drivers will have to watch new speed limit signs on three area roads in Bracebridge starting this fall. Including the main downtown section of its main street. The District of Muskoka council, in one of its last acts of its elected term, has approved […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com Subscribe: E-transfer $30 to news@muskokatoday.com GRAVENHURST — A person suffered a hand injury Saturday night after using an unapproved electronic device they found in a short-term rental unit that caused a small fire. Fire officials here say the person believed the unidentified device was safe to use because it was found with […]
MUSKOKA — Police have charged three people after a trio of OPP investigations Aug. 15, 16 and 18. In Huntsville, officers charged a driver following a RIDE check Saturday, Aug. 15, shortly after midnight. They were conducting a check on Hwy. 60, near Grandview Drive, when a vehicle was stopped. As a result of the […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com Subscribe: E-transfer $30 to news@muskokatoday.com PARRY SOUND-MUSKOKA — Even “strong companies” need help sometimes, said FedNor Minister Patty Hadju today in announcing $1.7 million in federal funding for four businesses and one non-profit housing group in Muskoka. The minister of jobs and families, and minister responsible for FedNor, announced it is providing […]
LETTER TO EDITOR: Eds. note: One reader who is keenly following Gravenhurst’s proposed Cliff Bay development at the former Muskoka Centre is Torontonian Elizabeth Kalinowski, who grew up there for a time in the 1950s when her father was a doctor at the “San.” She was born in 1939 and her family, who were Holocaust […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com Subscribe: E-transfer $30 to news@muskokatoday.com MUSKOKA — Another Sunday and another week with no phone call. Steven Readman loved his family, his parents — and his motorcycle. “He always called me on Sunday,” his mom, Linda, said the night before bidding him a fond, final farewell Friday afternoon at his full funeral […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com Subscribe: E-transfer $30 to news@muskokatoday.com LAKE ROSSEAU — An unusual $30,000 cottage theft shows you never know where the thieves come and go from. The OPP report that on Friday, August 7, at 10:45 p.m., officers responded to a report of a break and enter and theft that had occurred at approximately […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com Subscribe: E-transfer $30 to news@muskokatoday.com WINDERMERE — This week’s meteor shower wasn’t the only dark sky attraction this week. Muskoka Chautauqua’s 16th annual festival — with roots a century old — wrapped another successful two weeks of arts and culture here on Lake Rosseau. And it ended with shooting stars of its […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com Subscribe: E-transfer $30 to news@muskokatoday.com GRAVENHURST — Police have charged two people in relation to a shooting at a public housing unit in Gravenhurst last winter, in which a woman suffered a gunshot wound. With one of them in bail court today. On February 9, at 9:30 p.m., officers, along with Muskoka […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com Subscribe: E-transfer $30 to news@muskokatoday.com GRAVENHURST — A man police say interrupted a baseball tournament last evening has been charged with a driving offence. Police say that on Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 5:30 p.m., officers responded to reports of a possible impaired driver after two men became argumentative with families enjoying […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com Subscribe: E-transfer $30 to news@muskokatoday.com BRACEBRIDGE — An early afternoon highway accident today has two people in hospital. Hwy. 11 NB has reopened between Hwy. 117 and High Falls Rd. in Bracebridge, the OPP reported early tonight. With one lane of Hwy. 11 SB closed and soon to open, police said about […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com Subscribe: E-transfer $30 to news@muskokatoday.com GRAVENHURST — You’ve seen the Walking Dead. Wait till you hear the singing dead. “The Plaid” — high school buddies Sparky, Trudge, Jinx and Frankie — “were,” “are” a 1950s four-part harmony group on their way up in more ways than one. February 9, 1964, driving to […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com Subscribe: E-transfer $30 to news@muskokatoday.com GRAVENHURST — Out of the frying pan into the fire. A woman who rolled her vehicle Tuesday landed upside down. But was able to get out of her car with the assistance of paramedics and police. OPP and Muskoka EMS responded quickly to a crash notification August […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com Subscribe: E-transfer $30 to news@muskokatoday.com MACTIER — A couple out canoeing last night here on Stewart Lake — “without life jackets” — capsized just feet from shore, with a man drowning and his “girlfriend” being rescued by two local men and their friends who witnessed the tragedy before they “hauled ass” to […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com Subscribe: E-transfer $30 to news@muskokatoday.com TORRANCE — A 22-year-old vehicle driver was in bail court this morning charged with dangerous operation causing death, after a 52-year-old Lake of Bays man died in a head-on collision last night while riding his motorcycle on Hwy. 169. Police are investigating the fatal collision near Torrance, […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com Subscribe: E-transfer $30 to news@muskokatoday.com WINDERMERE — From the ‘’30s and ’40s to the ’80s to today, Muskoka Chautauqua is back for another exciting 10 days of arts and culture, music and summer entertainment as the cultural hub of Muskoka from Aug. 7-16. See list of events here. After last night’s opening […]