COVID-19 Local News

Owner Brad Watters 'is not some corporate monster. He’s a guy trying to run a restaurant. A $10,000 fine is just simply beyond reasonable,' his lawyer tells court

City, which now has $126,000 in tourism reserve fund, will extend its tourism partnership with Orillia and Lake Country Tourism for another year

'It's been really impactful having young people raise their voices about our future,' says advocate after council approves $50K to further investigate its boundary expansion course

'If the grants aren't approved, there may not be a monument, and that's a shame considering, to me, this is a very important historical part of Orillia,' says Legion official

'I think there is a lot of optimism right now for people to get back to some resemblance of normalcy and get business rolling again,' says owner of local hardware store

'It wasn’t a light decision on my part, but I figured I would go over there and try to make a difference,' says 52-year-old father and grandfather

Biggest local winner to date is Yvonne Sauve, who played Lotto 6/49 on Jan. 12 and recently stepped forward to claim $36M prize

'There is a possibility that customers aren’t coming in because passports aren’t in place,' says general manager of Theo’s Eatery

'I think there is becoming a wide acceptance of learning to live with COVID and so the government is starting to lift restrictions that we used to have,' says Orillia doctor

Orillia man, who says he lost his business due to shutdowns, says portrayal of demonstration in Ottawa is 'absolute lies' and worries about how protest might end