Belmont trades on festive spirit
BY MICHELLE HERBISON
BELMONT'S traders are pioneering a collective Christmas spirit with a series of white elves dancing along High St shop windows this month....
Jobs boost locked in: Labor MPs back WorkCover shift to Geelong
By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
RELOCATING WorkCover’s head office to Geelong would “absolutely fit” a plan to create a centre of excellence in injury prevention and...
APCO calls for vouchers ‘ban’
By NOEL MURPHY
SUPERMARKET fuel discounts of up to 40 cents a litre are discriminating heavily against many shoppers and should be banned, according to...
Young burn survivors make a splash at surf camp
By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
SPLASHING about in Torquay’s waves and filling the Surf Beach air with laugher this week was a far cry the previous...
Funding for 1000 jobs: Coalition backs projects
THE Abbott Government has committed to funding regional developments projects left under a cloud after Labor lost office.
Corangamite MP Sarah Henderson said a newly-established...
Community takes the LEAD to help establish NDIS
By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
LARA'S Donna Shaw desperately hopes the National Disability Insurance Scheme will give her respite from constant care of 18 year-old daughter,...
Women’s broken nose costs man bond, $500
By MICHELLE HERBISON
A GEELONG Magistrate has sidelined a conviction in favour of a stern warning for a man who broke his partner’s nose with...
Water pressure: Aquifer concern on Colac pipe
By NOEL MURPHY
ENVIRONMENTALISTS are anxiously awaiting a Barwon Water report on the effects of tapping an Anglesea aquifer and its impact on nearby swamplands.
Geelong...
Our power, water bills: Gripes rise by quarter
By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
COMPLAINTS to the Energy and Water Ombudsman from the Barwon region have increased almost 25 per cent, according to the organisation’s...
Sands hotel redevelop ‘option’
By NOEL MURPHY
A PEPPERS hotel at Torquay’s The Sands estate could be in for redevelopment as the Handbury Group weighs its options over the...
Flood rule ‘joke’
By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
GEELONG'S council has revoked a planning scheme flood overlay on an Armstrong Creek estate but imposed another on Newcomb, Whittington, Corio...
Turbine works defy objectors
By NOEL MURPHY
A COURT brawl over a proposed giant King Island wind farm to power Geelong has failed to slow a Hydro Tasmania feasibility...
Geelong West street blocked off
A Geelong West street has been blocked off this afternoon, with police remaining at the scene.
Police attended a property in the vicinity...
