Tag: News
Making millions
BY HAMISH HEARDThe amount of Surf Coast home owners sitting on million-dollar residential properties has jumped nearly 65 per cent in the past two...
Going full bore
Hamish HeardGeelong will rely on bore water next year after record low annual rain forced Barwon Water to announce its harshest round of restrictions.
Barwon...
Quit call over claim of bypass plan ignorance
Elisa ClarkA Liberal candidate wants Geelong’s mayor to quit for claiming he knows nothing about the party’s policy for the third stage of the...
Pilates, yoga, sports equipment in Surf Coast perks scheme. Shire massages staff, council
Hamish HeardSurf Coast ratepayers will foot the bill for councillors and shire staff to enjoy massages, weight loss programs and yoga classes under a...
Exercise a stroll in the park
Lisa HumphriesLocal Olympian Lee Troop will lead Geelong parents in an attempt to help get a world pram-strolling record tomorrow.
Geelong will be one of...
Deakin and Gordon in peninsula campus plan Higher learning
Alex de VosLocal tertiary institutions are in talks about opening a combined campus on the Bellarine Peninsula.
Deakin University and Gordon Institute of TAFE could...
Survey: roads we rage about
Lisa HumphriesLocal motorists have named their most-hated traffic bottlenecks in a new statewide survey.
RACV traffic and roads chief engineer Peter Daly said responses to...
From country to coast
Andrew MathiesonBURIED among the sticks – somewhere between Mt Duneed and Bellbrae – environmentalist Graeme Stockton talks the talk and walks the walk.
His home...
City’s $40m ‘plan’
Karen HartCity Hall is planning a marina development worth up to $40 million at North Geelong.
Councillor Stretch Kontelj said the concept promised more than...
Local wharfies tag on to the age of terror
Andrew MathiesonTerrorism fears will lead to Geelong maritime workers wearing security tags for the first time.
The identification of workers at Geelong’s port will be...
Jobs of 900 on the line
By Geelong Story UpdatesHundreds more manufacturing jobs are on the line in Geelong, according to the city’s trades and labour council.
Secretary Tim Gooden said...
Child porn cop launches appeal
Karen HartA GEELONG police officer who received a suspended jail sentence for possessing child pornography will appeal next week.
Senior Constable Alan Crane, 41, will...
Recognition for tireless volunteers
Two locals have been honoured at the 2025 Victorian Senior of the Year Awards at Government House in Melbourne last Wednesday.
Steve Bently and Geoffrey...
