Crime

Sirens echoed along Yonge Street as Barrie’s evening calm shattered—a driver hospitalized, another vanished, and a city left grappling with questions that cut to the bone of community trust. On a busy stretch of Yonge Street, the ordinary rhythm of traffic was interrupted by an event that has become all too familiar for residents: a […]

Streetlights flickered on Mill Street just before sunrise, illuminating the quiet only briefly before chaos took its place—a masked figure, a flash of steel, and a local gas station staffer staring down the cold edge of a knife. In the early hours, the routine hum of Angus was pierced by a brazen act at a

Flashing lights painted the facades of Dunlop Street East late into the evening, an unsettling backdrop to the questions now echoing through Barrie’s downtown core. Police responded to reports of a stabbing on Dunlop Street East, a stretch familiar to most Barrie residents. The incident, which unfolded in the heart of the city, quickly drew

Under the sodium glow behind 75 Ellen Street, one fleeting moment may hold the key to unraveling a condo break-in that has stirred a quiet Barrie neighbourhood. On November 13, just as dusk settled in, the Barrie Police Service found themselves turning to the public for help in a puzzling investigation. A second-floor condominium at

Inside the fluorescent-lit halls of the Barrie courthouse, the fate of both art and reputation hung in the balance as justice confronted one of Canada’s most notorious Indigenous art scandals. Jeff Cowan, a man whose dealings once traced a line from Niagara-on-the-Lake to St. Thomas, now finds his name indelibly linked to fraud. A jury

Three break-ins in Midhurst over just two weeks have put this normally quiet community right on edge, with the Huronia West OPP urgently searching for answers—and for suspects. It all started on September 29 at about 7 p.m. when a home on St. Vincent Street in Springwater Township was hit. Not long after, on October