Seymour Streets

A frightened pet limping home in the early hours. Neighbours arming themselves with golf clubs, not for sport but for defence. Across Barrie and Orillia, the line between wilderness and suburb has begun to blur, and with it, old assumptions about safety. For decades, families enjoyed tree-lined streets and backyard barbecues, assuming a sense of […]

Low clouds failed to deliver relief as Simcoe County endured one of its driest, hottest summers on record, leaving fields cracked and riverbanks receding under a relentless sun. Simcoe County has found itself at the centre of Ontario’s most severe drought, according to Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) data released this September. Over July

The glow of a computer screen can reveal more than social media updates—it can expose the darkest corners of the internet, as Barrie police recently discovered. Barrie Police Service’s Internet Child Exploitation Unit found itself facing those shadows earlier this month after a tip-off from the National Centre for Missing and Exploited Children. The report

Rubber and metal twisted into silence at Midland’s busiest intersection as sirens split the late afternoon air. On Highway 93, between Hugel Avenue and Yonge Street, chaos gave way to the measured choreography of emergency lights and the steady hands of first responders. Two vehicles collided Saturday afternoon, sending both drivers to hospital and thrusting

At 4:00 a.m., when most of Barrie was tucked in for the night, the city’s quiet broke under the wail of sirens and the roar of engines. What started as a routine police response soon spiralled into a scene more familiar to television crime dramas than a sleepy Ontario neighbourhood. Officers were summoned to a

Just after 11 a.m. on a quiet Friday in Innisfil, the sound of metal meeting metal broke the ordinary cadence at Line 7 and Yonge Street. Within moments, a seemingly routine traffic mishap turned into a mystery now gripping a community. Police say the sequence began when the driver of a silver Ram pickup truck

To the parent gripping the steering wheel outside Sandhills Public School, the click of a speed enforcement camera is more than a nuisance—it’s a warning, a line drawn across the asphalt by Waterloo Region’s new approach to school zone safety. Since February, 17 automated cameras have quietly chronicled the habits of Waterloo Region’s drivers, turning

Smoke curled above the fenced-off site where Barrie’s history of hardship met fresh uncertainty, as emergency crews tackled an early morning blaze that left more questions than answers. Shortly before dawn on September 4, a fire erupted at the former encampment stretching along John, Victoria, and Anne streets in Barrie. Firefighters arrived in force—three trucks

Tuesday morning, a hush fell abruptly over downtown Barrie as the familiar bustle of the public library was replaced by the unlikely sight of a swift evacuation. A gas leak, invisible yet urgent, forced the closure of one of the city’s busiest community spaces and sent ripples through the heart of the neighbourhood. Shortly after