Tomatoes reach for the sky
Colac’s Lena and Gus Kiesel don’t let a small garden set them back.
A ‘gut-wrenching’ experience
Ray Place stood in a lookout tower on Mount Porndon on Black Saturday and watched his own farm burn.
Call for foreign driver testing
A crash at a notorious Birregurra intersection that left a man with spinal injuries has renewed calls for testing and better education for international drivers.
Clean-up for Lake Colac
Second Colac Sea Scouts leader Jonathan Graham is asking the community to join them on Clean Up Australia Day.
Polished Porsches pop in to visit Cororooke
More than 300 Porsches cruised down the usually quiet streets of Cororooke for a gathering at the town’s former Fonterra factory buildings.
Group wants bats protected
Bat advocates will meet at the Colac Botanic Gardens on Monday after coming closer to securing a win for their winged friends.
District intersections left without road signs
A Colac district resident is calling on road authorities to urgently replace road signs and increase directional signs to increase safety at a Cororooke “short cut”.
Pumping of borefield faces federal inquiry
Federal Environment Minister Melissa Price will investigate whether Barwon Water’s Barwon Downs groundwater pumping could have led to breaches of national laws protecting vulnerable species.
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