Today’s top- stories for Barrie residents.
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 […]
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Steel beams catch the afternoon sun on Bayview Drive, where Barrie’s bold gamble on a new YMCA has begun to take shape—a $70 million wager on the city’s future, and a signal that community means more than words. At the heart of this ambitious project is a notion both simple and profound: that a city’s
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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
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A stray shaft of sunlight warms the old dog’s fur as he dozes by the window, unaware that help is on the way—not from a clinic, but from a van parked quietly outside his Barrie home. Mobile veterinary care is reshaping how families in Barrie and Huntsville address their pets’ final days. The arrival of
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Papers shuffled, voices echoed, and tension simmered as Barrie’s municipal workers sat across from city officials, each side acutely aware that the future of hybrid work for 600 employees was now the main card on the bargaining table. CUPE Local 2380, representing municipal staff whose jobs span everything from parks maintenance to bylaw enforcement, has
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Red lights flash in a mid-morning drizzle, a school bus idles, and for a heartbeat, every parent in Barrie holds their breath. The Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) have made it plain: missing a stop for a school bus is no longer a minor oversight—it’s a costly mistake. Since the start of the school year, the
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Six minutes can draw the line between disaster and relief in an emergency. In Barrie’s southeast, that margin just narrowed with the arrival of Fire Station 6 at the corner of Mapleview Drive East and Prince William Way. When Mayor Alex Nuttall and Fire Chief Kevin White uncoupled a fire hose to mark the station’s
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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
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There’s nothing like a cold Canadian November, the taste of anticipation in the air, and thousands of football fans travelling thousands of kilometres just to wear their colours with pride. This is Canadian football—a sport that doesn’t just play out on fields but in the hearts of fans from every corner of the country. Walk
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The familiar shelves at 299 Blake Street stood empty this week, the last bottles stacked with clinical precision, the fluorescent lights humming one final time as Barrie’s Beer Store closed its doors for good. The shutdown, effective Sunday, marked the end of an era for east-end regulars and workers alike. It is one in a
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