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Check your numbers! $100K Encore tickets were sold in Simcoe County

It's a potentially big winning Sunday for LOTTO 6/49 players as several $100,000 ENCORE tickets were sold in Simcoe County

Dec 5, 2021 12:15 PM Read more >

THEN AND NOW: 'Charming' Cumberland St. home withstood hurricane winds

Award-winning seven-room home, which is now on Barrie's Municipal Heritage Register, likely built sometime before the 1880s

Dec 5, 2021 12:00 PM Read more >

Ontario reports 1,184 new COVID cases Sunday

Today's update also includes 609 recoveries and zero new deaths

Dec 5, 2021 10:34 AM Read more >

Supportive community helps grant wishes to local seniors (5 photos)

'We do what we can to help our seniors in their sunset years,' says volunteer

Dec 5, 2021 10:00 AM Read more >

COLUMN: SantaFest takes Christmas spirit to new levels (5 photos)

Visit with St. Nick in his rustic log cabin, dating to the park’s opening in 1955, one of the highlights of SantaFest in Bracebridge

Dec 5, 2021 9:00 AM Read more >

Destroyed by fire, Ebenezer church served as farming community's 'hub' (5 photos)

'There’s a closeness you wouldn’t get in a big city church,' says Ebenezer United Church member

Dec 5, 2021 7:30 AM Read more >

Good morning, Barrie!

Take a second to enjoy your surroundings!

Dec 5, 2021 6:00 AM Read more >

Variants inevitable without global vaccination, says Gardner

'Unfortunately, pandemics can go on a long time, and this is the pandemic of the century,' says region's medical officer of health

Dec 4, 2021 7:00 PM Read more >

OPP issue warning about the '12 scams of Christmas'

The spirit of the holidays is a time of giving for most but, for scammers, it is a time of taking

Dec 4, 2021 6:30 PM Read more >

Four-month TradeWorx program looks to combat homelessness

Construction training program for women and men aged 18 to 29 starts Jan. 17; Information session set for Dec. 17

Dec 4, 2021 6:00 PM Read more >