Police and Emergencies

  • Coins lead police to gun thief

    COLAC detectives have tracked down an alleged gun thief through his attempts to offload coins stolen in the same burglary.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • Police thank heroic lifesavers

    POLICE have thanked two surf lifesavers at an Apollo Bay ceremony for their heroic attempts to save a drowning man.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • Teenager saves boyfriend

    LORNE teenager Lochie Donne would be a quadriplegic or dead if it wasn’t for his girlfriend Haylee Carroll.

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  • More gun thefts worry police

    POLICE say they are “desperate” to stop the region’s frequent gun thefts after seven more firearms disappeared from a Colac district property.

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