Articles by Jacob Traynor

  • Bay bottle-o application

    A divisive proposed bottle-o at Apollo Bay has lodged its application to sell takeaway booze. 

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  • MP calling for answers over charges drop

    A Colac MP wants a state minister and an energy regulator to explain why the regulator dropped charges over a 2018 bushfire

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  • Greens challenge safe seat Wannon

     A new candidate for Wannon says there’s no such thing as a safe seat in the upcoming federal election.  

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  • MP wants lawyer to support victims

    A full-time lawyer within Colac Area Health would help victims of family violence before they reached crisis point, a Colac district MP says.  

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  • Law aims at hoon spectators

    A Colac district State MP is proposing a law that would make it illegal to attend a hoon event, in a bid to deprive rubber rippers of an audience and stamp out dangerous driving.

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  • Call for harsher crackdown on trash tossers

    Waste crime campaigners are calling for the State Government and the EPA to back local governments like Colac Otway Shire Council in the battle against illegal dumping.

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  • Watch out for harvesters

    Corangamite district farm contractors are fed up with impatient and cranky drivers, police say.

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  • Truck driver dies in crash

    Police are investigating the circumstances around a fatal crash yesterday at Wongarra, north-east of Apollo Bay.

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