Floating tree leads $15.6m Christmas windfall for Geelong
Booming retial trade figures show Geelong has cemented its position as the “Christmas capital of Australia”, according to Mayor Darryn Lyons.
The city’s expanded 2015...
School cost’s record hit
By ALANA MITCHELSON
A record number of Geelong families are struggling to meet school costs this year, according to support services.
UnitingCare said it would help...
Relief plea for cancer patients’ car parking pain
By ALANA MITCHELSON
Car parking problems for cancer patients are under review after a Barwon Health submission to City Hall.
The submission proposed parking fine exemptions...
Struggling hotel calls last orders
By EMILY ROBINSON
Geelong icon The Carlton Hotel struggled for 12 months.
Then in early December the hotel’s three operators made the ultimate decision to...
Aid helps Jett on life’s next big step
Watching five-year-old son Jett prepare to start school next week was similar to the experience of most mums for Clifton Springs’s Samara Bondin.
But the...
12 to four wards ‘preferred option’
Geelong’s council could be slashed from 12 wards to four under options put out for public comment.
Four options for fewer but larger wards and...
Double Take
The subject line of an emailed media release might have briefly raised eyebrows - and temperatures - in local newsrooms working last Sunday.
‘Warmer weather...
Hundreds of new jobs for Geelong as DHS HQ moves in with NDIA
Hundreds of new jobs will flow to Geelong when Department of Human Services (DHS) relocates to a new headquarters in the city, according to...
Geelong women wanted for ‘fat talk’ research
Geelong women’s 'fat talk' could help provide insights into body-image issues, according to Deakin University.
One of its researchers wants to find out how comments...
V/line vow ‘mystifies’ PTUA
By ALANA MITCHELSON
The State Government’s assurance that V/Line train services will be back to normal within a week has “mystified” a leading Geelong public...
Surf Coasters ‘prepared to dob in own kids over arson’
Almost everyone on the Surf Coast would dob in even their own child if they were a suspected arsonist, according to a “world-first” study.
Saving...
Biker in footpath hit-run
By EMILY ROBINSON
A dirt-bike rider allegedly ran down a 65-year-old man on a Norlane footpath late Wednesday night, police said yesterday.
The hit-run put...
Big fines for illegal dump and burn
Victoria’s environmental protection watchdog has handed a hefty fine to a demolition company for an illegal burn-off in Charlemont.
High Tech Demolition Pty Ltd received...
