A private funeral service for Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Const. Grzegorz “Greg” Pierzchala will be held in his hometown, Barrie, on Wednesday at 11 a.m. The service will not be open to the public, but will be livestreamed on the OPP’s social media channels, including YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook. A public virtual viewing of the…

The funeral for two Ontario police officers killed in a shooting in Innisfil earlier this week will be held in Barrie on Thursday. Const. Morgan Russell, 54, and Const. Devon Northrup, 33, died after responding to a call about a disturbance in Innisfil on Tuesday night. The Special Investigations Unit, which is investigating the shooting,…

Three athletes are among the six young adults who were killed in a crash in Barrie, Ont., over the weekend. Police have said four men and two women who were reported missing on Saturday are believed to be six people found dead in a crash early Sunday. In a social media post that has since…

The central Ontario city of Barrie will turn its attention to clean−up today after a twister tore through a neighbourhood, damaging homes and injuring several people. Paramedics have said eight people were taken to hospital, and several others were treated for minor injuries. Environment Canada has given the tornado a preliminary rating of EF−2, meaning…

BARRIE, Ont.—A long-term care home in Barrie, Ont., says a COVID-19 outbreak that killed 70 of its residents has been declared over. Jarlette Health Services, which owns the Roberta Place nursing home, says the local health unit declared the outbreak over on Thursday. The outbreak, which involved cases of the COVID-19 variant first detected in…

An outbreak of COVID-19 at a Barrie long-term care home has taken the lives of nine residents, and infected over 100 people since the first case was reported on Jan. 8. Testing is also underway to confirm if the outbreak was caused by the UK variant strain. To date, COVID-19 has claimed the lives of…