Skip to content

Local News

Here's how to keep your pooch safe during summer adventures

Here's how to keep your pooch safe during summer adventures

Ontario SPCA and Humane Society reminds anyone with a furry family member not to forget about their needs to keep them safe during hot weather
Read more >
Local OPP remind residents that drowning is entirely preventable

Local OPP remind residents that drowning is entirely preventable

Officers want to remind all vessel operators and passengers that wearing your life jacket will very likely save your life
Read more >
Ontario reports 176 new COVID cases Saturday

Ontario reports 176 new COVID cases Saturday

Saturday's report includes 203 new recoveries
Read more >
Sunnyside Marine, Fred & Cecil Crealock and the Royal Anne

Sunnyside Marine, Fred & Cecil Crealock and the Royal Anne

'The Royal Anne was the primary Crealock boat on which Fred was born…in Midland harbour no less.,' author recalls. 'It had been a supply boat up the shore for many years'
Read more >
COVID-19: What profs learned when 80 experts, 300 alumni and 600 students showed up to a virtual course on pandemics

COVID-19: What profs learned when 80 experts, 300 alumni and 600 students showed up to a virtual course on pandemics

Would anyone want to spend more screen time talking about pandemics? Yes, learned an anthropologist, biologist and historian who developed a course on the topic
Read more >
OPINION: Amid more shocking residential schools discoveries, non-Indigenous people must take action

OPINION: Amid more shocking residential schools discoveries, non-Indigenous people must take action

White settlers in particular may have a tendency to focus too much on themselves when confronted with racism and colonialism in terms of their self-education and political self-expression
Read more >
Midland, Penetanguishene vote to create single police board with neighbours

Midland, Penetanguishene vote to create single police board with neighbours

North Simcoe and part of Muskoka expected to be covered by 13-member board by early 2022
Read more >
Good morning, Midland!

Good morning, Midland!

Make today amazing
Read more >
BEYOND LOCAL: Does campus free speech extend to what students say online?

BEYOND LOCAL: Does campus free speech extend to what students say online?

Weighing unrestricted expression against fostering a tolerant public sphere will test the fundamental freedoms we cherish in our democratic society, prof says
Read more >
COLUMN: Thursday's tornado recalls haunting scenes from 1985

COLUMN: Thursday's tornado recalls haunting scenes from 1985

Seeing the devastation in south Barrie Thursday was a grim reminder of the deadly tornado that wreaked havoc in Barrie back in 1985
Read more >