BC Beatz dance into the national titles
GEELONG dance school BC Beatz is hopeful border restrictions will ease enough that its students will get the chance to compete at the national...
Tokyo Olympics: Aussies in action on Day 17 and Day 16 results
AUSTRALIA - 17 gold, 6 silver, 22 bronze What's on today? ATHLETICS Men's Marathon (Brett Robinson, Jack Rayner, Liam Adams), Olympic Stadium/New National Stadium CYCLING TRACK Women's Omnium all...
Party in Fyansford like it’s 1939
Geelong Arts Centre and Tenacious C are teaming up to give musical theatre fans the chance to party like it’s 1939. Provenance Wines will host...
Outback journey inspires poetry collections
Not everyone would love to camp in the desert under the stars, encounter a hungry dingo or paddle in a waterhole at Uluru, but...
$400m lockdown support package for businesses announced
THE federal and Victorian governments have today (Friday, August 6) announced a new joint funding package to give Victorian small and medium businesses extra...
Corio Village initiative to make space safer
CORIO Village has launched its "Respect, Protect, Connect" campaign, a new initiative geared at making the popular shopping centre a safer space for the...
High achievers honoured in Premier’s VCE Awards
VICTORIA’S best performing VCE students have been recognised with Premier’s VCE Awards, celebrating their outstanding efforts and achievements in their final year of schooling...
G21 Stakeholder Forum cancelled
THE G21 Stakeholder Forum scheduled to be held tomorrow (Friday, August 6) and broadcast online has been cancelled due to Victoria's impending snap COVID-19...
Seven-day Victoria lockdown starts at 8pm
VICTORIA will go into its sixth lockdown within hours, with Premier Daniel Andrews announcing the entire state would return to the same level of...
Two COVID cases in Victoria added to six announced today
VICTORIA has recorded another two coronavirus cases on top of the six previously announced today (Thursday, August 5). The two new cases will be included...
Owen Wright takes bronze as first medals for surfing awarded
AFTER three days of fierce competition in everything from waist-high wedges to overhead typhoon surf, reigning World Surf League (WSL) champions Carissa Moore and...
Rip Curl Pro comes back to Bells in 2022
THE Rip Curl Pro Bells Beach will be back in 2022, with the World Surf League (WSL) announcing the long-running event would return to...
Tokyo Olympics: Aussies in action on day 14 and day 13 results
AUSTRALIA - 15 gold, 4 silver, 17 bronze What's on today? ATHLETICS Men's Decathlon last five events (Ash Moloney, Cedric Dubler) Women's High Jump Qualifying Round (Nicola McDermott,...
MoPA to keep playing through RISE grant
The Museum of Play and Art (MoPA) is among three arts organisations in the Geelong region to share in more than $1 million under...
Funding to fix region’s road black spots
ROAD users and pedestrians alike in the Geelong region are set to benefit from Black Spot projects announced last week by the federal government,...
Festival’s sustainability success
THE Queenscliff Music Festival is an exemplar of the sustainable mindset in action.
GABF toasts new partnership with BeerFest
THE team behind The Great Australian Beer Festival (GABF) have announced a new partnership with BeerFest Australia. As a part of the partnership, Australian Beer...
Person dies in skydiving incident in Torquay
A person has died and a second has life-threatening injuries following a skydiving crash in Torquay this afternoon. Victoria Police said the pair were doing...
Footy and netball to return, some games rescheduled
GROUNDS and courts across the Geelong region will be back in action from tomorrow (Wednesday, July 28) thanks to the easing of COVID-19 restrictions,...
Victoria’s lockdown lifts at midnight
VICTORIA will come out of its fifth COVID-19 lockdown at midnight tonight (Tuesday, July 27) but masks will remain "inside and outside and always"...
Victoria still waits on end of lockdown decision
VICTORIAN Health Minister Martin Foley says authorities will need the rest of today's data before any decisions can be made about the end of...
Geelong to host two Renegades games
THE Melbourne Renegades will be coming down the highway to Geelong during the coming Big Bash League (BBL) season, with GMHBA Stadium to host...
Local superheroes unmasked at Bethany awards
THIS year’s winners of the Bethany Superhero Awards have been announced, following the COVID lockdown and restrictions cancelling last month’s ceremony. The 12 primary school...
Support for regional workers should be wider, Grimley says
THE Victorian Government has announced a pilot scheme to tackle housing shortages and other barriers to regional workforce attraction, but Derryn Hinch's Justice Party...