News

  • Experts quell vaccine worries

    Health authorities are encouraging people to get the COVID-19 vaccine that is available to them now, assuring Colac and district community members that both vaccines are safe and effective.

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  • Lifeline extends text service for Suicide Prevention Day

    Crisis support service Lifeline will open a 24-hour text line, thanks to funding from RACV.

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  • Space seeds touch down in Apollo Bay

    Apollo Bay primary school students are preparing for their part in a nation-wide outer space experiment.

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  • Kindergarten’s now in session

    Colac and district kindergarten teachers are rapt to return to onsite learning today after restrictions eased for regional Victoria.

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  • New roles for staff as service calls time

    Barwon Child, Youth and Family says it is committed to redeploying its employees whose jobs will be impacted by the closure of Colac’s Wydinia Early Learning Centre later this year.

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  • Nobody home as farmhouse burns down

    A fire has destroyed a Yeodene farmhouse.

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  • Kids eager to see their classmates

    A cohort of primary and secondary school students and staff will head back through the school gates today, but some will have to persist with remote learning for a little while longer.

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  • Waste companies worried at monopoly plan

    Smaller regional waste companies are asking the State Government to let them be a part of Victoria’s new container deposit scheme.

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