Heritage in hindsight
Remember when Geelong’s waterfront was almost totally excavated to create our new tourist precinct - only for workmen to discover a forgotten statue of...
Award of awards for Oishi-m
Oishi-m a children’s wear brand from Torquay has proudly won the Powercor 2017 Geelong Business Excellence Awards - Business of the Year Award.
Established...
Fence failings
By Luke Voogt
A Grovedale woman has won a two-year legal battle with a local company after it built a “defective” fence around her property.
The...
Partners in pedalling
By Mandy Oakham
Geelong cyclists are wheely, wheely happy about a new $1.4 million facility which will provide a new home base for the region’s...
Call to bring finals home
By Mandy Oakham
Geelong football fans are manning up to prove they will bleed blue and white for their beloved cats.
Supporters are angry with a...
Books are child’s play
Book Week celebrations kicked off in style at Child’s Play with staff and students donning whacky outfits from the children’s favourite stories.
Karren Canny, Bec...
Overlords to monitor new councillors
By Luke Voogt
The State Government plans to monitor Geelong’s new council are “a massive vote of no confidence” in the city’s residents, according to...
Rejection blow for rehab clinic
By Luke Voogt
A rehab business has failed to win funding for an “innovative” private-public clinic from the State Government.
Habitat Therapeutics director Jim Tatlock met...
Agonies of alcohol
By Luke Voogt
When Mary* stabbed her husband in a drunken blackout in 1982, it ended her drinking for good.
“I’m very lucky that I didn’t...
Smart material is damn tough
By Mandy Oakham
Imagine a dam built of a material 200 times stronger than steel which would also be able to tell a computer if...
Older women struggle to find home
By Luke Voogt
A north Geelong club is searching “as quickly as possible” for shelter for the fastest-growing group of homeless people - older women.
But...
Sun descends on Geelong
International performer Nilaja Sun will return to Geelong next month direct from the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with her latest play, Pike St.
Sun will bring...
Holmes out to wipe away tears with AFL flag
Max Holmes didn't have much of a relationship with Chris Scott when he was left out of Geelong's grand final team three years ago.
The...
