Exception made for Walton’s five estate lots on Old Second AWARE News Network Today, Simcoe County Council voted to deny requests from five Midhurst developers for population allocations that would have provided for an extra 6,120 people in Springwater...

By Patrick Bales, The Orillia Packet & Times If you wanted to shoot a movie about a sensible country community fighting an influx of loud rock ‘n’ roll music, Oro-Medonte would be the ideal setting. Surprisingly, that suggestion wasn...

Battle back on between Barrie area residents as they resurrect noise and trash complaints against popular concert venue, its supporters By Rob Ferguson Toronto Star The Battle of Burl’s Creek is back as cottagers breeze toward Muskoka along Highway 11....

Not(tawasaga) Your Average Tree Planting from the Nature Conservancy of Canada Join the Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC) and the Nottawasaga Valley Conservation Authority (NVCA) to plant trees along the Nottawasaga River in the Minesing Wetlands. Min...

from 99% Invisible Für Elise” is one of the world’s most widely-recognized pieces of music. The Beethoven melody has been played by pianists the world over, and its near-universal recognition has been used to attract customers for companies as big as M...

By Gisele Winton Sarvis Collingwood Enterprise Bulletin WASAGA BEACH – Wasaga Beach council voted 4-2 against filling the vacant councillor chair by choosing the next person in line from 2014 election councillor candidates. Council also voted 4-2...

By Ian Adams Wasaga Sun Plans to dredge the Nottawasaga River are moving ahead. On Thursday, Wasaga Beach council’s coordinated committee received an update on the environmental assessment process that would give the municipality the tool it needed sho...

By Jenni Dunning Barrie Advance An Oro-Medonte facility that stores biosolids from Barrie’s wastewater treatment plant may be affecting groundwater, according to a 2015 performance report. The Oro Biosolids Storage Facility on Line 7 north of the Lake ...

By Gisele Winton Sarvis Barrie Examiner Christian Island’s 800 residents have no way to transport vehicles and heavy goods now that its car-carrying ferry the M.V. Sandy Graham has been taken out of service. Transport Canada deemed the ferry unsafe May...

Water, Indigenous rights, Justice for Mercury Survivors From River Run 2016 Thursday, June 2, 12pm, Queen’s Park — Join us for a massive arts-based action to ensure real answers from the provincial government! Over 40 years ago, people in Grassy ...