News

  • NEWS IN BRIEF

    A new science program, free secondary school teaching degrees and more in today’s news in brief.

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  • Hotel plan for Colac

    A proposed three-storey, 20-room residential hotel, with function room, café and medical centre in central Colac would aim to provide modern visitor accommodation, short-term worker accommodation and business opportunities, if it gains planning approval.

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  • Finances, petitions on agenda

    Colac Otway Shire Council will consider financial statements and proposals for a BMX track and to rescind its previous decision to sell Apollo Bay’s old kindergarten site at tonight’s council meeting.

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  • Planned burns set to continue

    Planned burns will continue across the Otways and the Great Ocean Road in preparation for the upcoming bushfire season.

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  • Spanner thief caught with knife and baton

    A soon-to-be-dad must pay a $1000 fine for stealing spanners and carrying a knife and a baton.

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  • Five times over, four-year lesson

    A Colac man who crashed while riding an e-scooter at more than five times the legal alcohol limit has learnt his lesson about e-scooter rules, losing his driver’s licence for four years.

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  • Letters to the Editor

    Thanks for support Angela and I would like to express our heartfelt thanks to Naomi and the Colac Herald for the support shown to us with our latest Sh+tbox Rally adventure. But wait there is more – for ten years the Colac Herald has told our story and the precarious predicaments of pending doom upon […]

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  • Social housing commitment for Colac

    Colac leaders have welcomed the State Government’s commitment to build at least 50 social housing dwellings in Colac, however views on the site chosen are divided.

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