News

  • Confusing backflip in baby’s visa case

    Immigration officials have shattered an Otways family’s hopes of a reunion, telling them to take their baby on a 4000-kilometre trip for DNA testing.

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  • Brigade taking on department site

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  • Colac traffic to move onto temporary bridge

    Workers are building the foundations of Colac’s new Barongarook Creek Bridge, with traffic to be move onto a temporary steel bridge next month.

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  • Eroding coastline an ongoing worry

    A Marengo man says Mounts Bay’s coastline has receded about 20 metres since 1995, amid calls for long-term protections against erosion.

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  • Fishing line causes seal death

    A Kennett River wildlife carer is urging locals and tourists to properly dispose of rubbish after fishing line entangled and killed a seal.

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  • District remembers ‘kind and loving’ man

    Tributes are flowing for Beeac’s Murray Howard, a grandfather, respected beef farmer and former district teacher, who died while swimming in the Lorne Pier to Pub.

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  • Water warning as high bacteria levels are detected

    Colac Otway Shire Council is advising people to avoid contact with Lake Colac water after water quality tests showed an elevated presence of enterococci levels.

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  • Firefighters head to Gippsland

    Colac district firefighting crews are at Gippsland this week to assist firefighters in keeping a fire at Rosedale contained.

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