Articles by A Staff Reporter

  • Election candidates finalised

    Eight candidates will contest the ultra-marginal Corangamite seat at next month’s federal election, with a draw putting Labor’s Libby Coker above incumbent Liberal Sarah Henderson.

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  • RISE REJECTED

    Colac Otway Shire Councillors have rejected a proposal for a two-per-cent rate rise, instead calling for a rise of just half a per cent.

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  • Early-morning fire destroys a Barongarook house

    An early-morning fire destroyed a Barongarook house yesterday, with police working throughout the day to determine the fire’s cause.

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  • Talented tradesman is off to world titles

    A skilled Elliminyt tradie will be Australia’s sole joinery competitor at an international competition in Russia, where he’ll face the world’s best young joiners.

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  • Royal Children’s saved young Colac siblings

    A Colac mother whose children needed the Royal Children’s Hospital’s care early in their lives says Victorians are “incredibly lucky to have such an amazing hospital”.

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  • End of an era for historic oak

    Woodcrafters hope to retain a piece of Colac district history when a mighty old oak tree falls to make way for the Princes Highway duplication.

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  • Vandals decimate rare trees

    Vandals have deliberately damaged more than a dozen trees in the Colac Botanic Gardens.

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  • Livestock truck crash kills sheep

    Emergency services yesterday responded to a sheep transport rollover on the Colac-Ballarat Road, killing dozens of sheep.

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