Police and Emergencies

  • Police concerned drivers choose dangerous option

    COLAC’S Highway Patrol officers are warning drivers they are breaking the law if they take a short cut at an intersection between Deans Marsh and Birregurra.

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  • Drug-affected client shuts down hospital

    A DRUG-AFFECTED man forced Colac’s hospital into lockdown after threatening violence against staff.

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  • One dead in bus crash

    A woman in her 30s died after a tourist bus with seven people on board crashed on the Great Ocean Road at Gellibrand Lower yesterday.

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  • Mother fights for cannabis law change

    A COLAC district mother is campaigning for the Federal Government to consider legalising cannabis for medical purposes including relieving epilepsy seizures.

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  • Colac Herald Sports Mash

    Colac Herald sports journalists Ben Martin and Alex Baird cover the latest action of football and netball in the Colac district.

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  • Colac takes a stand against ‘ice’ threat

    COLAC TIGERS Football Netball Club president Nick Lang says it’s time to take a stand against the drug “ice”.

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  • Driver loses control of vehicle in Otways

    A MELBOURNE driver wrote off his car when he crashed off the Forrest-Apollo Bay Road near Barramunga yesterday afternoon.

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  • Motorists speed on tourist road

    POLICE have caught two drivers travelling 38 kilometres an hour over the speed limit on the Great Ocean Road within 20 minutes of each other.

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