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One conversation, months of trust, and $1.3 million gone—Orillia’s latest cyber crime case is a gut punch to anyone who thinks it couldn’t happen here. The story began with a phone call to Harry Little, an 85-year-old retiree in Orillia, alerting him to supposed computer troubles. Soon, the benign warning twisted into a sophisticated online

On a cold December morning, Barrie’s courthouse bustled with tension as Hailey Roberts, shrouded in mask and sunglasses, learned her fate for impersonating a nurse within local long-term care homes. Roberts, 33, orchestrated a calculated deception that reached into the heart of Simcoe County’s most vulnerable institutions. Over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, she

Fluorescent lights flickered above the rows of pew-like benches at Barrie’s main courthouse, where an unusual legal defence has drawn a crowd of keen-eyed observers. This week, a 49-year-old Barrie man faced the final rounds of testimony in his sexual assault trial, opting for a defence seldom heard in Canadian courtrooms: sexsomnia. The charges—sexual assault,

In one swift operation, more than a kilogram of powerful narcotics and three firearms vanished from Simcoe County’s streets, upending criminal activity that had quietly rippled through Collingwood, Barrie, and Vaughan for months. The investigation, led by the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Community Street Crime Unit, first took root in early autumn when suspicious activity

Three mailboxes, all flung open and empty, greeted residents on Hanmer Street West last Friday—a sight that sent a jolt of unease through more than one Barrie household. In the quiet north end, regular routines were upended when Steve Glover arrived to collect his mail and found not a letter in sight. His first reaction