Call to bring finals home
By Mandy Oakham
Geelong football fans are manning up to prove they will bleed blue and white for their beloved cats.
Supporters are angry with a...
Books are child’s play
Book Week celebrations kicked off in style at Child’s Play with staff and students donning whacky outfits from the children’s favourite stories.
Karren Canny, Bec...
Overlords to monitor new councillors
By Luke Voogt
The State Government plans to monitor Geelong’s new council are “a massive vote of no confidence” in the city’s residents, according to...
Rejection blow for rehab clinic
By Luke Voogt
A rehab business has failed to win funding for an “innovative” private-public clinic from the State Government.
Habitat Therapeutics director Jim Tatlock met...
Agonies of alcohol
By Luke Voogt
When Mary* stabbed her husband in a drunken blackout in 1982, it ended her drinking for good.
“I’m very lucky that I didn’t...
Smart material is damn tough
By Mandy Oakham
Imagine a dam built of a material 200 times stronger than steel which would also be able to tell a computer if...
Older women struggle to find home
By Luke Voogt
A north Geelong club is searching “as quickly as possible” for shelter for the fastest-growing group of homeless people - older women.
But...
Call to save Deakin campus from rogue robot
By Mandy Oakham
Danger Will Robinson: an emergency warning has been issued that a rogue robot will be rampaging in the Geelong area this coming...
UniqueLaser bags health award
UniqueLaser is proud to announce that it has won the Health and Wellbeing Award at the 2017 Geelong Business Excellence Awards.
Winning this award...
Numbers have come up … but for whom?
The search is on for mystery lotto winner who snared $830,431.50 after buying a ticket in Corio.
Officials had yet to track down the division...
Bully probe stalls
By Luke Voogt
An independent panel has failed to revolve any further council bullying investigations since January.
Complaint review panel chair Susan Halliday confirmed the lack...
$42m work deal
A Geelong builder has won $42 million in western Melbourne health care projects eight months after securing a contract to build Geelong’s NDIS headquarters.
Techne...
Opposition for Point Lonsdale Coles grows
Geelong mayor Stretch Kontelj has spoken out in support of community members opposing a proposed Coles supermarket at the gateway to Point Lonsdale and...
