Arcare job boost for peninsula
Arcare’s expansion to the Bellarine Peninsula has created hundreds of employment opportunities for locals wanting to build a career in the eve- growing aged...
Swan Bay serves up an Easter gift
Swan Bay was popular with local anglers over the Easter break.
Anglers fishing over sand patches alongside weed beds around the entry to the...
Warriors seek springboard after Port’s wake-up call
The National Premier League’s first two promoted clubs - North Geelong Warriors and Avondale - face off at Elcho Park on Saturday for a...
Treats, toys at Players Bistro
KEEPING children happy while dining out is rarely easy but Geelong Football Club’s Players Bistro has the solution with its new children’s playroom and...
Motlop cops off-field club suspension
By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
Cats’ speedster Stephen Motlop is under a one week club-imposed suspension for an off-field indiscretion, coach Chris Scott announced this afternoon...
Geelong Star arrives in Australia
By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
THE CONTROVERSIAL factory freezer trawler Geelong Star has arrived in Australia and could start fishing for its 16,500 tonne quota within...
Ebola scare in Geelong
By NOEL MURPHY
AMBULANCE officers went into biohazard emergency mode when they transported a suspected Ebola suffererer to Geelong hospital last month.
The man displayed flu-like...
Cats primed for Hawthorn blockbuster
By John Van Klaveren
FOOTY'S back - but Geelong fans will have to wait the entire long weekend before getting a pointer on the Cats...
Deaths mystify police
By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
The violent deaths of two men at Whittington have baffled homicide squad detectives.
The pair, friends who lived together in a Thatcher...
In brief: Boat knockout; health closure; guns stolen; Anzac lighting; Easter lock-up
Boaties’ knockout
Police have discovered three people unconscious on a boat circling out of control half a kilometre off St Leonards.
Police believe the two men...
Stiff: Coffin thief faces grave charges
By NOEL MURPHY
A GEELONG man will face court next month over the bizarre alleged theft of 17 coffins from a Melbourne warehouse earlier this...
Spit spat brings back shellfish
By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
CORIO Bay’s “functionally extinct” oyster reefs and mussel beds are being rebuilt in an Australian-first shellfish restoration project.
Wilson’s Spit reef, in...
Travelling to the land of penguins
The weather is getting warmer by the day and thoughts are turning to getting away from it all to somewhere cooler, somewhere different and...
