Staff have seized more than $70,000 in contraband at Gravenhurst’s Beaver Creek Institution.  According to Correctional Service Canada, a package which included suspected tobacco, marijuana, and methamphetamine was on its way into the prison on April 10.  Inside the institution, officials estimate the contents of the package would have been valued...

The Practice Ready Ontario (PRO) program could bring as many as three new physicians to Muskoka as soon as this fall. The program was established in June 2023 with provincial officials in collaboration with the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario and the Touchstone Institute. The non-profit corporation...

A stretch of Highway 118 in Highlands East is fully closed due to flooding.  According to East Region OPP, the roadway is blocked between Thunderbird Drive and North Bay Beach Road in Cardiff.  The highway has been closed since around 2:40 p.m. Friday. 

Huntsville’s Williamsport Bridge will be down to one lane for more than a month.  The partial closure will begin April 15 at 7:00 a.m. and is expected to last until May 21 at 5:00 p.m., with through traffic permitted.  Town officials say the closure is to allow crews to do general...

Water levels will be higher this next week thanks to Friday’s “significant rainfall.”  That from the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry, which has issued a water safety bulletin for the Black, Burnt, Gull, Magnetawan, and Muskoka River watersheds.  Officials say the heavy downpours can cause flash-flooding, which could impact low-lying...

A 61-year-old from Bracebridge is facing a Careless Driving charge after police say he hit a 14-year-old pedestrian. Shortly before 9:00 Thursday night, the OPP says officers were dispatched to the collision at the corner of Wellington and Queen Streets in Bracebridge. Police say the vehicle attempted to turn from...