Torquay line feasibility study faces hurdle: ‘Block for rail plan’
By NOEL MURPHY
A PROPOSED rail link to Torquay will compete with traffic on other lines unless planners can overcome a single-line bottleneck south of...
Drysdale line feasibilty study faces hurdle: ‘Block’ for rail plan
By NOEL MURPHY
A PROPOSED rail link to Drysdale will compete with traffic on other lines unless planners can overcome a single-line bottleneck south of...
South Barwon budget winner: More prison beds for northern suburbs seat
By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
The Liberal-held electorate of South Barwon received a hospital and a train station but the Labor heartland seat of Lara received...
Hike about 4.3%, source reveals: Rates ‘restrained’
By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
CITY of Greater Geelong will set its lowest rate increase for six years when it unveils its budget next week, a...
Diner’s ashes all at sea
By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
BELMONT’S Bet Holland loved the constantly changing vista of Geelong’s waterfront, so she decided to have her ashes laid to rest...
Buckets&Bouquets
BUCKETS to sticky-beak neighbours who always want their own way and who are trying to get rid of us. Sorry, it won’t happen. They...
Coast air activists ‘mislead’ senators
By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
A SUBMISSION slamming Alcoa’s Anglesea power station to a senate committee on air quality contained errors and was “misleading”, according to...
Skills warning for NDIS trials
By NOEL MURPHY
GEELONG’S much-vaunted NDIS centre might fall short of its hype without Canberra producing outstanding cash to train staff, a peak skills body...
Former Toll boss ‘backs Bay West’
By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
OPPOSITION leader Daniel Andrews has accused State Government of digging its heels in on calls to build the state’s new container...
’You’re a different person when using drugs’: Eureka knock-out
By MICHELLE HERBISON
A MAGISTRATE has convicted and placed a Norlane man on a 12-month community corrections order for knocking out a victim at a...
Spectre of drought returns to spook local farmers
By NOEL MURPHY
THE spectre of drought hangs over the region following a dry start to the year and little sign of significant rain in...
FINALLY FRIDAY: Courthouse on a Fony journey
By MICHELLE HERBISON
PLAYWRIGHTS Ross Mueller and Georgina Capper took their four Fony 2013 cast-members on a journey as they wrote the production specifically for...
Further bonus for Ioniq 5
The Ioniq 5 burst onto the local electric vehicle scene more than three years ago like the greyhound favourite out of a trap at...
