By Laurie Watt Barrie Advance September 26 2013Barrie needs to get condo and apartment dwellers pitching into reducing their waste, Mayor Jeff Lehman said. The city is cutting back garbage collection to every second week in 2015 to prompt you to recycle and better use your green bins, which will stil...

By Bob Bruton, Barrie Examiner September 24, 2013 Curbside garbage pickup could be cut to once every two weeks in Barrie.City councillors will consider the change Monday, although it would still allow two bags of waste to be collected within a two-week period. ...

Barrie news relelase August 21, 2013The City of Barrie has earned an AMO Gas Tax Capacity Building Award for its development of a Storm Water Facility Asset Management Plan. The Honourable Greg Rickford, Minister of State for Science and Technology and Federal Economic Development Initiative for Nort...

By Laurie Watt Barrie Advance August 13 2014Ontario will not sideline Barrie as the province examines transportation infrastructure upgrades, post-secondary investments and seeks to address the skills gap, Premier Kathleen Wynne told The Advance last week. ...

By Ian McInroy, Barrie Examiner June 17, 2013 Barrie’s waterfront is a family-friendly kind of place.Now a different kind of family has taken an interest in the area: snapping turtles.Over the weekend, a female laid her eggs in a parking lot beside Lakeshore Drive across from Kempenfelt Bay. ...

By Bob Bruton, Barrie Examiner May 29, 2013City-owned land in downtown Barrie could one day be on the block.Councillors gave initial approval this week to issue a request for proposals (RFP) to re-develop city-owned property there, and report back by this mid-October. ...

By MARCUS GEE The Globe and Mail Apr. 19 2013Barrie is hardly the first place you would go to see the new urbanism that is sweeping North American cities. The bedroom community of 140,000 an hour’s drive up the 400 highway from Toronto is about as suburban as you can get, with vast tracts of subdivis...

By James Armstrong  Global News April 12 2013TORONTO – The Ontario government announced Friday it will be increasing GO Train service this summer.From June 29 to September 2, GO Transit will be operating eight more trains on the Barrie line and increased bus service north of Toronto....

Big projects take time: KingBy Bob Bruton, Barrie Examiner March 1, 2013Efforts continue to reduce the impact of a potential $100-million bill to cut phosphorous levels from Barrie’s sewage treatment plant.After a closed-door session Feb. 25, councillors gave initial approval to a motion which withdr...