Methane leaks testing widens
By PAUL MILLAR
INVESTIGATORS from City of Greater Geelong have extended testing for methane leaks from a former rubbish tip below a South Geelong industrial...
Buckets and Bouquets
Buckets to a new-car importer that spends millions of dollars on sports while refusing to honour a seven-year warranty. Buckets also to a dealer...
Double Take
Epic struggles, tormented souls, forbidden love - stage productions have a tradition of dramatic subject matter.
Not in Geelong, though, where a new local show...
Quiksilver in ‘spin’ on Torquay jobs
CLAIMS that Quiksilver’s American bankruptcy will leave its Australian operations unaffected are just “spin”, according to a former executive.
Phil Jarratt wrote on surfing website...
FTA key to Avalon fresh food exports
By EMILY IANNELLO
A free-trade agreement between Australia and China would help Avalon Aiport’s push for an international terminal, according to business leaders.
Influential produce entrepreneur...
Sheets speak language of child safety for new communities
By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
IT MIGHT make perfect common sense to most but simple ways of preventing injury to children in the home do not...
Woolies headlines new town centre
WORK has begun on Armstrong Creek’s first shopping, dining, education and community hub, creating 200 construction jobs and another 200 on-going jobs.
The $100 million...
New schools slated for Geelong
GEELONG is to get new schools at Armstrong Creek, Torquay, Bannockburn and North Geelong in term one 2018, state government has announced.
The local schools...
TAC, Cats zero in on road toll
THE TRANSPORT Accident Commission (TAC) and the Geelong Cats have joined forces to call on the community to push for a zero road toll.
TAC...
Council to save millions on stadium as state funding demand fails
GEELONG'S council will save millions of dollars after staring down a State Government demand to fund its takeover of Simonds Stadium.
Council voted this week against...
Kids off their Facebook as cops probe drug page
By PAUL MILLAR
POLICE are investigating a graphic Geelong Facebook account filled with vile images of local teenagers using drugs.
The site details local drug culture,...
Trapped in aged care, Kirrily puts life on exhibition
By EMILY IANNELLO
GEELONG’S Kirrily Haywood is one of many young Australians living with a disability in a nursing home.
She simply has nowhere else to...
Paddleboarders rescued on Christmas day
A woman and a teenager were rescued by police after they drifted from Portarlington to Werribee on their paddleboards on Christmas Day.
A 51-year-old woman...
