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

Local Leaders Message: Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre's President and CEO Janice Skot
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.
A Gravenhurst, Ont. man is facing impaired driving charges after a vehicle crashed into a fence early Sunday morning.
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.
OPP from the Southern Georgian Bay detachment are investigating a home invasion in Tay Townhship on Friday
Ukraine's government on Sunday called for an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council to 'counter the Kremlin's nuclear blackmail' after Russian President Vladimir Putin revealed plans to station tactical atomic weapons in Belarus. One Ukrainian official said that Russia 'took Belarus as a nuclear hostage.'
Former Bank of Canada governor Stephen Poloz says Canada’s economy is at a greater risk of a 'hard landing' — a rapid economic slowdown following a period of growth and approaching a recession.
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.
A mother was kicked off a flight after Air Canada staff said a teen's wheelchair couldn't be stowed in the cabin. Heather Butts reports.