By John Bacher Niagara at Large Tragically few seem to appreciate the wonders of our relatively well ecologically restored landscape around the eastern edge of Lake Ontario where most of the province’s population lives. In the 1950s, part of what is no...

By Ian Adams Wasaga Sun Communication and council reform will be top-of-mind for local politicians as Clearview Township’s new council embarks on its four-year term. On Monday, Mayor Chris Vanderkruys oversaw a candid two-hour discussion on counc...

By Brad Pritchard Alliston Herald NEW TECUMSETH – A rural New Tecumseth landowner’s proposal to truck thousands of loads of fill to rehabilitate a property for a fruit farm is raising red flags with his neighbours. A planning consultant represent...

By Laurie Watt Barrie Advamce  Barrie is poised to rezone open space and environmental protection lands (EP) to allow 131 homes to be built on a former golf course on the city’s western boundary. Without a word of debate, councillors gave initial appro...

By Ian Adams Wasaga Sun CLEARVIEW Twp. – A multi-million-dollar industrial development planned beside the Collingwood Regional Airport could get moving as early as this summer. On Thursday, Paul Bonwick – the government relations consultant...

By Ian Adams Wasaga Sun WASAGA BEACH — Municipal staff have taken a scalpel to the town’s budget, slicing off another few points. On Tuesday, councillors were presented with a second draft of the 2015 budget. The first draft presented to the previous c...

Report from Day 1 of the hearing By Colin Perkel, The Canadian Press TORONTO — An expert tribunal was entitled to conclude a proposed wind farm would devastate a population of already threatened turtles, Ontario’s top court heard Monday. Th...

Public will be able to flle complaints about municipalities, universities, school boards (but not Conservation Authorities!) Ontario Ombudsman news release Ontario Ombudsman André Marin today welcomed the historic passage of a new law that will allow h...

New Tecumseth Free Press Online New Tecumseth’s new councillors wasted little time putting their own stamp on their four year term, voting unanimously last night to move committee of council meetings to Monday mornings starting at 10 am, replacin...

County of Simcoe news release County Council today elected Gerry Marshall, Mayor of the Town of Penetanguishene, to serve as Simcoe County Warden for 2015 and 2016. “I am honoured to be elected as Simcoe County Warden for 2015 and 2016,” sa...