News
Family helps disaster victims
COLAC’S Richard and Jenny Van Niekerk feel blessed the Philippine children they have been helping to support for more than five years are safe following a natural disaster that has killed thousands.
Lucky escape from death
A COLAC man was seconds away from death after a Memorial Square tree branch fell in his path.
Council reveals travel claims
COLAC’S civic leaders claimed almost $60,000 in travel expenses last financial year.
Hospital access among best
COLAC residents’ access to hospital services is among the best in Australia, a national survey has found.
Mum thought baby had died
COLAC district mum Rachel Amos-Ritchie feared her nine-month-old baby girl, blue and unconscious, had died in a car crash at Barongarook.
Police thank heroic lifesavers
POLICE have thanked two surf lifesavers at an Apollo Bay ceremony for their heroic attempts to save a drowning man.
Koala watchers’ lives at risk
AN OTWAYS resident says there’ll be “blood on someone’s hands” if tourists continue to stop in the middle of the road to pat koalas.
Child burnt in Colac workplace
CHILD trauma specialists flew to Colac to stabilise a toddler before airlifting him to Melbourne after he suffered burns in an industrial workplace accident.