Speedsters sidelined as police impound cars
POLICE impounded four cars over the weekend after their drivers were apprehended speeding.
One incident took place on Melbourne Road in North Geelong where an...
‘Changing’ Cats pluck Hawks
GEELONG is the only unbeaten team on the AFL ladder after a 19-point victory against Hawthorn on Monday.
Geelong’s 5-0 record followed the Cats scoring...
$50m Epworth hospital deal ‘stinks’, call in Ombudsman, says MP
By NOEL MURPHY
CALL in the Ombudsman because "something stinks" about a secret $50 million Epworth Hospital deal at Waurn Ponds, says Bellarine MP Lisa...
Double take
DESPITE public admonitions of difficult council colleagues, Geelong mayor Darryn Lyons was still feeling the love last Friday.
However, the object of his social media...
Drunken shame draws a new police focus
By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
GEELONG’S history of public violence and drunkenness has earned the city inclusion in a national police operation for Easter.
Victoria Police will...
In brief
Dragon funding
Fundraising for a wind-powered tourism attraction proposed for Geelong’s waterfront will begin at a sustainability event in Eastern Park this weekend.
Renew Geelong, from...
Trickey gets prison term
By Noel Murphy
High-profile Geelong Facebook blogger Jason Trickey has been sentenced to six months jail for assaulting a woman.
Two months of the six-month sentence...
E-slum fear as net speed ‘manipulated’
By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
LEOPOLD broadband customers fear their internet speeds are being manipulated because of capacity restraints at local exchanges.
Cameron Horne said his ADSL2...
Car thieves hit battlers
By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
Three Geelong suburbs feature in a list of disadvantaged areas with four times the car theft rates of more affluent counterparts.
Corio,...
Rider’s shock return from horror injuries
By NOEL MURPHY
MAN versus electricity rarely has a happy outcome, as the scars on Brett Coleman can attest.
The Geelong anaesthetist came to the pointy...
Far-left attacks union rally, Trades Hall boss
By NOEL MURPHY
A UNION jobs rally in central Geelong last week was a “fraud”, according to socialists
The far-left Socialist Equality Party (SEP) accused Geelong...
Awards add Impetus to youth work
A diverse range of people and organisations have earned recognition for their achievements across various endeavours affecting young people in the Geelong region and...
From the archives
18 years ago
29 February, 2008
Police hope to find clues to unsolved crimes after authorities hauled 20 dumped cars out of the Barwon River yesterday.
A...
