By Brad Pritchard Alliston Herald ADJALA-TOSORONTIO – Adjala-Tosorontio residents will see a slight bump on their property tax bills next year. Council has agreed to a 4 per cent increase to the municipal portion of the levy. The increase, factor...

By Meade Helman At a recent special council meeting, I was both shocked and dismayed by some of the comments made by members of council. Mayor White told other members of council that he was working towards a complete community. Apparently a complete c...

When: Saturday, December 7 2013 1:00 pm Doors open 1:30-3:00 pm Presentations and Discussion Followed by mingling and light refreshments Where: Monte Carlo Inn Barrie Suites, Huron Room, 81 Hart Drive, Barrie This is a joint event between Midhurst Rate...

We’ve been busy By Kate Harries AWARE News Network It’s been a month almost to the day since the AWARE website was hacked and taken off-line – and we know how much you’ve missed it. Now we’re back, with a new design, better security and man...

Heather Wright, CTV Barrie With Faurecia in Bradford announcing it will close – leaving 550 people out of work – there are new worries about the manufacturing sector in our region. Come February, those workers will be added to Ontario’s unemploym...

By Heidi Riedner Georgina Advocate Georgina Mayor Robert Grossi’s public statement last Friday explaining why he pleaded guilty to filling in shore lands without a permit on his private property has “deeply disappointed” the board of the Lake Simcoe Re...

CTV News A Bradford plant with more than 500 workers is shutting its doors in 2015. Faurecia North America told its workers today the Bradford seat mechanisms and frames plant will close in mid-2015. Stacie Tong, director of communications for Faurecia...

By Carey L Biron Asia Times WASHINGTON – As government representatives gathered on Tuesday in Indonesia for what could be final negotiations towards a global trade agreement under the World Trade Organization (WTO), environmentalists and social j...

By Maija Hoggett Alliston Herald  NEW TECUMSETH – New Tecumseth has been warned against dipping into its reserves to achieve balanced budgets. Talking to council Monday night, Allister Byrne, a retired partner of Grant Thornton LLP (the town’s au...

From North Gwillimbury Forest Alliance The Maple Lake Estates (MLE) Loophole is “simply illegal and bad policy” according to the legal opinion submitted to the Lake Simcoe Region Conservation Authority (LSRCA) by Leo Longo, Senior Partner, Aird & B...