Sailing festival in date, cycle move
Geelong’s Festival of Sails has changed dates and incorporated a cycling event to become “bigger and better”, Royal Geelong Yacht Club has announced.
The change...
‘Can-do’ approach to diabetes
He recently travelled to Morocco, could turn into a footy star and dreams of leading Australia.
So learning that Point Lonsdale teen Fraser Richards also...
Things looking up for learners at all levels
A “win-win” Geelong program encouraging secondary students into tertiary studies has celebrated its sixth anniversary with around 180 supporters.
Representatives from Deakin University and partner...
Council dumps quarry bid
Geelong’s council administrators have knocked back controversial plans for a quarry near Lara that could create 65 jobs.
The administrators decision contrasted the opinion of...
Defence move for Corio MP
Geelong’s Federal Labor MP has achieved what his Liberal counterpart could not: a post-election promotion.
Opposition leader Bill Shorten this week unveiled his shadow ministry...
Warrants for arrest
Police are urging the public to help locate 50-year-old James Joseph Foley, who is known as a regular in the Geelong and Warrnambool areas....
Double take
The saying, ‘A face only a mother could love’, has been applied somewhat artfully, if unpleasantly, in the latest road safety initiative out of...
Pregnant woman in highway car-jacking
Four men allegedly car-jacked a pregnant woman before a police chase across the Bellarine Peninsula on Wednesday night.
The 30-year-old woman was left unwilling to...
100 on streets as winter cold blankets fundraiser
By EMILY ROBINSON
An estimated 100 people sleeping rough on Geelong’s streets will benefit from a community fundraiser as cold winter weather blasts the region...
Strength in numbers
By BERNADETTE UZELAC, GEELONG CHAMBER OF COMMERCE CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
Geelong Chamber of Commerce is the voice of business in the Geelong region.
It is...
Making news where you live
The Geelong Indy is a finalist for three awards at Australia’s premier annual celebration of community newspapers.
The paper is a vying for Best Digital...
Labor at ‘40-year low in local seat’
Labor recorded its worst primary-vote result in Corangamite for almost 40 years at this month’s federal election, according to final counting.
Labor candidate Libby Coker...
Round 18 – the fixture that had it all
Not one team in the top five tasted victory and the bottom two upstaged the top two in what was one of the most...
