Articles by Alex White
Colac’s new security cameras stopping crime
A COLAC police sergeant says the city’s new security cameras are already helping authorities avert conflicts on the streets.
Typhoon distresses Colac doctors
COLAC doctors from the Philippines have spoken of their distress at seeing Super Typhoon Haiyan devastate their home country.
Crash car on wrong side of road
POLICE say a Saudi Arabian man was on the wrong side of the road when his car and a four-wheel drive collided in the Otways.
Hospital access among best
COLAC residents’ access to hospital services is among the best in Australia, a national survey has found.
$500,000 for new clubrooms
A $500,000 redevelopment will provide new facilities for two Colac district sporting clubs that have been without clubrooms more than a year.
Child burnt in Colac workplace
CHILD trauma specialists flew to Colac to stabilise a toddler before airlifting him to Melbourne after he suffered burns in an industrial workplace accident.
Teenager saves boyfriend
LORNE teenager Lochie Donne would be a quadriplegic or dead if it wasn’t for his girlfriend Haylee Carroll.
More gun thefts worry police
POLICE say they are “desperate” to stop the region’s frequent gun thefts after seven more firearms disappeared from a Colac district property.