Christmas in the Shire
Surf Coast Shire is celebrating the festive season with Christmas events taking place over two weeks.
Torquay’s Gilbert Street will host a Share the...
Out & about
Apart from a few rainy days, it's been great weather to get out and about lately and Independent photographer Ivan Kemp did just that...
Season 2025 unveiled
Geelong Arts Centre (GAC) has launched its Season 2025, revealing a range of delightful, disturbing and thought-provoking works.
The nine productions, running from March to...
Barwon Heads sewer upgrade complete
The Barwon Heads sewer project has been completed on schedule, putting an end to nine months of night works and traffic disruptions.
The project, which...
Blokes lunch for charity
The Gentlemen of Geelong luncheon was back at Flying Brick Cider Co on Friday November 29 all in the name of preventing male suicide...
Rock ‘n’ roll through the hard times
Geelong musician Stefan West's latest single is both an acknowledgement of life’s challenges and an invitation to embrace the now.
Hard Times, released on Thursday,...
Geelong strongwoman takes on the world
A Geelong paramedic will travel to the US next week to battle for the title of World’s Strongest Woman.
Norlane’s Katie Blunden, in her second...
From the Archives
17 years ago
November 30, 2007
The cost of climate change will hit Geelong region households harder than almost anywhere else in Australia, according to a...
Species galore at nature reserve
I went for a walk at Ocean Grove Nature Reserve and the ponds are just about empty, which isn’t ideal seeing that the summer...
Fully electric Chery Omoda
E5 is the fully-electric version of the Chery Omoda that we drove 12 months ago.
It doesn’t look radically different from the rear or in...
Community calendar
Arts and craft markets
Arts and crafts stalls from local creatives and artisans. Saturday December 7 at Belmont Library 9.30am-2pm; Geelong Library & Heritage Centre...
Fair connects NDIS participants
Inclusion will be the focus this International Day of People with Disability when the Geelong Library & Heritage Centre hosts the Disability and Inclusion...
Take care of your pets this Christmas
Christmas is a time for family - and pets are family too, meaning they too deserve special care and attention over the festive season.
It...
