Police and Emergencies

  • Deadly intersection still causing chaos

    A NOTORIOUS Princes Highway intersection has continued to cause traffic chaos despite efforts to improve visibility.

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  • Colac man victim of hackers

    POLICE are investigating the theft of a Colac man’s credit card details after internet hackers posted them online.

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  • Speedsters risk road workers’ lives

    POLICE say speeding motorists are risking the lives of road workers building the Princes Highway duplication.

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  • Commission will challenge church

    COLAC’S Catholic parish priest says he expects a royal commission into child sexual abuse will challenge the church.

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  • Public drinking fines will double

    COLAC Otway Shire Council is set to double the fine for drinking alcohol in central Colac streets.

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  • Children lived with drugs and filth

    PILL packets, alcohol bottles, soiled mattresses, food scraps, animal faeces and broken furniture – that’s how a Colac woman has lived with her four children.

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  • Police hunt knife-wielding bandit

    POLICE are hunting a knife-wielding bandit who pretended he had broken down on the Princes Highway and tried to mug a Colac district man.

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  • Protesters rally to fix sex abuse laws

    CAMPAIGNERS have started a petition to remove a statute of limitations rule after state prosecutors dropped a Colac sexual abuse case from the 1970s.

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