Do you know this man?
POLICE want to speak the man pictured here about a wallet stolen from a car in North Geelong.
Overnight between 8 and 9 June, an...
EPA order to Viva Geelong refinery over SO2 emissions
THE Environment Protection Authority is expected to issue Viva Energy’s Geelong refinery with a compliance notice requiring the company to provide its sulphur dioxide...
Ultra-biker Ben returns from the wilds of Oz
By Noel Murphy
MOUNTAIN bike cyclist extraordinaire Ben Henzgen has returned to Geelong after a record-setting round-Australia ride.
Henzgen’s 61-day ride, from April 7 to...
O’Keeffe search focuses on Darwin
by NOEL MURPHY
THE MYSTERY of missing Geelong man Daniel O’Keeffe is now focussing on the Northern Territory.
The Brazilian jujitu instructor, who disappeared in 2011...
Dying parrot puts $4b Nelson Cove in doubt
By NOEL MURPHY
MOOLAP’S $4 billion Nelson Cove project has been dealt a curve ball with news the orange-bellied parrot is facing extinction from an...
Mansion bid riles green group
By NOEL MURPHY
ENVIRONMENTALISTS are anxious a bid to expand Campbell Point House might be the start of more incursions on Lake Connewarre and a...
Labor abandons Geelong: Guy
By NOEL MURPHY
STATE Labor has abandoned Geelong on multiple fronts, opposition leader Matthew Guy claimed this week in a savage attack on Spring Street.
Mr...
Coaching is a winner for Torquay nurse
By NOEL MURPHY
TORQUAY nurse Kim Poyner is a tough coach - tough but fair.
Her goals aren’t between the big sticks or into netS...
Wet May finishes dry autumn here
By LINDSAY SMAIL
MOST of the Geelong-Otways region, except its northern area, received average to well-above average rain in May.
The Bureau of Meteorology’s automatic weather...
Taxi driver hits sign, blows .279%
A TAXI driver was almost six times over the blood-alcohol limit when police caught him at Bellbrae, police have alleged.
A Victoria Police spokesperson said...
Bunnings’ new plan to be masters of Leopold
By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
BUNNINGS has snapped up an opportunity for a hardware store at Leopold after the troubled Masters chain abandoned it in 2013.
A...
Dispute threat for flower jobs
By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
AN ACRIMONIOUS dispute between the developer of an $80 million residential golf estate and the owners of a flower farm threatens...
Lions inflict Tigers’ first loss
Belmont Lions handed Thomson its first loss of the Geelong & District Netball League season on Saturday and Independent photographer Ivan Kemp was at...
