Safer waters for Queenscliff
Queenscliff community members can go swimming and boating in safer waters thanks to a new Coast Guard search and rescue vessel.
Marine Search...
Boy getting brain scans after alleged plane hijack plan
A teen accused of trying to hijack a commercial flight at Avalon Airport is undergoing brain scans to determine whether he has a neurological...
Habitat disturber fined
A Lara man has been fined for disturbing the habitat of a critically endangered bird at a Ramsar site.
Birdlife Australia reported that research...
Diya on the frontline of child protection
Geelong child protection worker Diya Thakkar has received the “best possible start” to her career.
Having completed her degree in social work at the Australian...
Award-winning sustainability program returns
Geelong Sustainability’s award-winning Electric Homes Program is back for its third year.
The program, which was announced as the winner of the Leading Energy Management...
Small business festival program revealed
The 15th Geelong Small Business Festival program is out now.
Delivered in partnership by the City of Greater Geelong and the Geelong Chamber of Commerce,...
Helping hand for Cottage
Darren Allbutt’s Sea & Wood exhibition at Cottage by the Sea late last year was so well received that the fifth-generation Queenscliff resident is...
Man dies after Drysdale motorcycle accident
A man has died following a crash in Drysdale this morning.
Officers were told a motorcycle travelling east on the Drysdale bypass crashed into a...
Out & about at the beach
Some prefer the beach during winter and voice photographer Ivan Kemp was at Ocean Grove main beach on Tuesday July 8 to see who...
No robins in Robyn’s garden
I dropped by one sunny day at my friend Robyn’s property in Wallington to see if there were any robins in her garden.
I...
Ice Age lingers with ‘Jurassic’ Pajero
In the face of the red-hot advance of electric power, one internal combustion engine vehicle is moving at glacial pace to extend the Ice...
From the Archives
16 years ago
July 10, 2009
Residents and local politicians fear the “Leopold pong” emitting from Lake Connewarre could have a huge impact on the natural...
Student dies in bus crash
A child has died, while more than a dozen people have been hospitalised with two in critical condition after a school bus tipped.
The crash...
