News

  • Federal Government to auction offshore Otway gas fields

    The Federal Government is inviting bids for potential offshore gas fields just a few kilometres from the Twelve Apostles.

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  • Storm leaves water on road

    High rainfall in Colac during the week caused more flooding in residential streets.

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  • City travellers, footy crowds can return under new COVID rules

    A border separating regional Victorian and Melbourne will lift and density limits will ease for a host of venues under new COVID rules that take effect Friday.

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  • Survey shows strong results

    Surf Coast Shire residents are more satisfied with their council’s performance than last year, survey results show, and the council is outperforming state averages.

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  • V-Line shakes up management structure

    Regional Victoria’s train provider V-Line will lose its independent board and come more under the oversight of the Department of Transport as part of a restructure.

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  • Letters to the editor

    Correspondents write about the pandemic response, Australia’s treatment of refugees, overgrown trees and thank a prominent Colac worker.

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  • High tea a highlight at aged-care centre

    Residents of Colac’s Barongarook Gardens aged care found a classy way to celebrate the Queen’s Birthday long week-end.

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  • Walk backs vision charity

    A compassionate Colac resident and her seeing eye dog will tackle a 10km fun run at Forrest to raise money for Vision Australia.

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