News
Colac wants TV chef Jamie Oliver
COLAC community leaders are inviting celebrity chef Jamie Oliver to set up a pop-up kitchen in Colac to help fight obesity and diabetes.
Immunisations among state’s worst
ONE in eight Colac and district children start school without full immunisation, giving the shire one of the worst immunisation rates in Victoria.
Sheer luck saves crash driver
POLICE say a Melbourne woman survived a high-speed car crash south of Birregurra “by sheer luck”.
Pregnant mum flees fire
A 38-WEEKS pregnant former Colac district woman feared she would go into labour as she prepared to flee raging fires.
Machines save Colac baby
COLAC mum Sharna Warrender was unable to hold her baby son Harley Summers for 16 days after his birth as a series of machines worked to keep him alive.
Man dies in logging accident
A COLAC man died yesterday after a tree fell on him at a logging coupe in the Otways.
Farmer fights for tractor justice
A COLAC district farmer is fighting a tractor company for a refund for what he says is a faulty machine.
Woman hurt in motorcycle crash
A WOMAN is in hospital with a fractured hip, and another man is uninjured, after two motorcycle crashes in the Otways yesterday.