Smoking materials cause garage fire in Barrie's north end
Barrie Fire and Emergency Service was called to a home in Barrie’s north end at 11 p.m. Friday

Barrie Fire and Emergency Service was called to a home in Barrie’s north end at 11 p.m. Friday
Hospice Muskoka is pleading for help after being left without additional funding for palliative care beds by the Provincial government.
Grey Bruce OPP have closed a section of Story Book Park Road in Meaford, Ont. for a death investigation.
Middleton Umolo and her three teammates learned how to raise funds for the Women and Children's Shelter of Barrie in their Georgian College Event Management class
Simcoe County Rovers FC held its kit reveal for the upcoming season on Sunday in Barrie.
The resort officially ended its skiing and winter activities on Sunday, marking the end of what began as a turbulent season.
The annual luncheon coincided with the anniversary of Canada's participation in UN peacekeeping, marking 75 years of service.
Baseball Ontario held the clinic for girls ages 8 to 16 as the organization moved towards bringing equity in baseball.
One hundred high school students from across Simcoe County united Friday for one purpose, to learn about the world's second most popular sport - cricket. The Simcoe Muskoka Catholic District School Board organized the event as part of an ongoing effort to promote inclusion through diverse sports activities.
Orillia Soldiers' Memorial Hospital is hosting the employment fair focused on nursing, hoping to yield similar results as last year's.
Forty artists aged 81 to 101 years old from seven retirement communities are showing their art at the Wasaga Beach gallery until March 27
More than 20 years ago, when her dad brought competitors over to practice arm wrestling, 9-year-old Sarah Wilson thought she would give the sport a shot. She's been hooked ever since.
Flying over the Grand Canyon was a highlight for the Gellisen family during their trip to Phoenix, but their flight home to Toronto was a much different experience, with several family members forced off of the flight over tensions related to a teen's wheelchair.
The Canadian Armed Forces is under fire for its plan to cut thousands of troops off a cost-of-living allowance without much notice.
King Charles III's coronation will be held on May 6 at London's Westminster Abbey. Here are some little-known facts about the ceremony:
Lettuce prices are likely to rise next month and could stay high into the summer, agriculture experts say, as flooding in a key California farming area becomes the latest example of extreme weather's effect on the food chain.
Police have identified a teenager who died after being stabbed in an ‘unprovoked’ attack at a Toronto subway station Saturday night, and have charged an adult male suspect with his murder.
A new campaign is aiming to get an Indigenous woman honoured on the next $20 bill in Canada for the first time.
In France, a country that taught the world about people power with its revolution of 1789 -- and a country again seething with anger against its leaders -- graduating from bystander to demonstrator is a generations-old rite of passage.
The Florence museum housing Michelangelo's Renaissance masterpiece the 'David' invited parents and students from a Florida charter school to visit after complaints about a lesson featuring the statue forced the principal to resign.
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh says he's 'not satisfied' with his party's confidence-and-supply agreement with the Liberals — signed a year ago this week — because it's shown him he could do a better job running the country than the current government.
Flying over the Grand Canyon was a highlight for the Gellisen family during their trip to Phoenix, but their flight home to Toronto was a much different experience, with several family members forced off of the flight over tensions related to a teen's wheelchair.
The Canadian Armed Forces is under fire for its plan to cut thousands of troops off a cost-of-living allowance without much notice.
King Charles III's coronation will be held on May 6 at London's Westminster Abbey. Here are some little-known facts about the ceremony:
Lettuce prices are likely to rise next month and could stay high into the summer, agriculture experts say, as flooding in a key California farming area becomes the latest example of extreme weather's effect on the food chain.
Police have identified a teenager who died after being stabbed in an ‘unprovoked’ attack at a Toronto subway station Saturday night, and have charged an adult male suspect with his murder.
A new campaign is aiming to get an Indigenous woman honoured on the next $20 bill in Canada for the first time.
In France, a country that taught the world about people power with its revolution of 1789 -- and a country again seething with anger against its leaders -- graduating from bystander to demonstrator is a generations-old rite of passage.
The Florence museum housing Michelangelo's Renaissance masterpiece the 'David' invited parents and students from a Florida charter school to visit after complaints about a lesson featuring the statue forced the principal to resign.
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh says he's 'not satisfied' with his party's confidence-and-supply agreement with the Liberals — signed a year ago this week — because it's shown him he could do a better job running the country than the current government.