Fanning wins fourth Rip Curl Pro at Bells
Australian Mick Fanning won his fourth Rip Curl Pro to seize an early lead in the world championship chase at Bells Beach yesterday.
Fanning, a...
Jail for flouting orders after robbing cashiers
By NOEL MURPHY
A MAN with numerous convictions for supermarket and convenience store robberies was yesterday jailed for nine months after breaching community correction orders.
Glen...
Anzac legends come to life in Winchelsea trenches
By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
STORIES of the Anzacs' sacrifice abound as the Gallipoli centenary approaches.
But what was it really like to be there?
Geelong Military Re-enactment...
Plains ambo times ‘worst’
GOLDEN Plains Shire has the worst ambulance code-one response times in the state, according to an interim report into Ambulance Victoria.
Nine per cent of...
In brief
Board doomed
Barwon Water’s board faces the sack, Water Minister Lisa Neville warned this week.
The Bellarine MP foreshadowed a clean out of water boards around...
Group faces big VCAT loss bill
By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
A community group faces “unspecified” legal costs after losing its tribunal appeal against plans for a service station at Clifton Springs
Drysdale...
Double Take
Mick Fanning might have won the main event at the Rip Curl Pro yesterday but Melbourne again claimed the marketing stakes.
The big smoke elbowed...
Factory trawler fishing to berth
By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
CONTROVERSIAL factory freezer trawler Geelong Star is fishing its way to Corio Bay after arriving in Western Australia from Europe.
The 95-metre...
Champ coasts into GOR ride
By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
HE WAS once ranked third in the world as a triathlete but Greg Stewart will be just one of the cyclists...
Coroner probing intern death
By NOEL MURPHY
THE CORONER is investigating the death of a Geelong hospital intern suspected of suiciding a week after starting work.
The man, aged around...
Mature-male job program half full
By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
RETRENCHED Geelong workers have less than a week to enrol in a unique program to find them jobs.
Coordinator Bernie Cooke said...
Music bar dream hits sour note in city cultural area
By NOEL MURPHY
ANDY POBJOY has blamed City Hall red tape for stopping him opening a music bar in central Geelong’s cultural precinct.
Mr Pobjoy said...
Recognising the first signs of addiction — when to reach out...
Addiction rarely happens overnight. It often begins subtly — with habits that seem harmless or easily controlled. Over time, though, those habits can take...
