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Just two weeks from now, Barrie’s public transit system will mark a turning point as the new Allandale Transit Terminal opens its doors, quietly ending decades of history at the downtown Maple Avenue terminal. The City of Barrie will unveil its $30 million Allandale hub on September 21, a move set to send ripples through

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

Red heels scuffed the pavement along Barrie’s waterfront as a determined crowd pressed forward, not for style points, but for survival. Each step echoed a promise: no one in this city walks alone. Saturday’s Walk a Mile in Her Shoes event drew a diverse crowd to the city’s shoreline. Men, women, and children laced up

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

Outside the farmers’ market, the crowd gathered in a semicircle, phones half-raised, drawn not by spectacle but by the presence of an alpaca whose gentle eyes seemed to reflect back the small-town heart of Oro-Medonte. Monty arrived on the scene almost by accident, though nothing about his ascent to local fame felt accidental. When the

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