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Coast needs visitors to return
Great Ocean Road tourism businesses estimate they’ve lost $20 million in revenue since a landslide closed the road eight weeks ago.
$1.2 million tourism boost
The Otways coastline will receive a $1.225-million boost for tourism-focused projects ranging from a geothermal spa development to an elite sports training centre.
Father’s long road to recovery
Colac’s Dan Casey says just one second changed his life forever when a bobcat crushed his foot in a workplace accident.
Pedestrian demands action over crossing
A Colac district woman wants authorities to make a Colac pedestrian crossing safer before there’s an injury or death at the site.
Stadium and cinema present challenges for councillors
CONFIRMING an opening date for Bluewater’s problem-plagued basketball stadium is among the challenges facing Colac Otway Shire’s new councillors.
Tradesmen join health appeal
COLAC house painters, former painters and friends of painters have put away their razors and united under a brush to raise money and awareness for men’s health this month.
Brave Colac boy battles disease
A Colac family should be celebrating the arrival of their new son, but are instead juggling hospital visits for chemotherapy and breast feeding.
Amazing holiday despite dialysis
A Barongarook couple’s six-week holiday visiting family and old friends factored in five different dialysis sites in England and Italy.