Premier praises reaching vax milestone
VICTORIA has reached its eighty per cent full COVID-19 vaccination target, drawing praise from Premier Daniel Andrews as the state reported its lowest daily...
Vic supermarkets to sell rapid COVID tests
VICTORIANS will soon be able to buy rapid antigen tests from major supermarkets, as the state readies for its first major events out of...
SCT digital edition, 28 October
Supporting families through cancer
TOMORROW is National Bandanna Day, providing an opportunity for the community to support the 23,000 young Aussies who face a cancer diagnosis in their...
Welcome back to the Surf Coast!
The Surf Coast is celebrating, with tomorrow's 6pm certainty that doors will open, Melburnians will be back, and friends and family can reunite. The community...
Melbourne to reunite with Vic regions
MELBURNIANS will be able to enter regional Victoria before next weekend as part of further eased COVID-19 restrictions when the state hits its eighty...
Victoria records 1750 cases, nine deaths
VICTORIA has added a further one-thousand-seven-hundred-and-fifty new infections to its COVID-19 caseload, all but two of them locally-acquired. The state has also recorded nine more...
Exposure sites update – October 23
THE Geelong Magistrates’ Court, and an early learning centre are among the latest exposure sites for the region. Goodstart Early Learning Drysdale, at 86-90 Barrands...
SCT digital edition, 21 October
Authorities firm on hospitality vax mandate
VICTORIAN authorities are standing by a mandate for hospitality workers to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19 before Melbourne's pubs, cafes and restaurants reopen, despite...
Erosion work and planning continues as sea levels rise
DRONE surveys along the Great Ocean Road are playing a key role in monitoring erosion and coastal hazards, as state authorities close beaches, build...
‘Typo’ in Vic rules vexes entertainment
MELBOURNE entertainment venues won't be able to open to fully vaccinated patrons indoors when lockdown ends, because a COVID-19 rule change contained a "typo". When...
Victoria ends lockdown five days early
VICTORIA will end its sixth long-running lockdown five days earlier than planned, as the state races to its seventy per cent fully vaccinated target. Premier...
Exposure sites – October 16
THE Department of Health and Human Services has listed The Squires Loft and Yeah Boy in Geelong West as a Tier 1 exposure site. Anyone...
COVID-positive 15yo among seven deaths
A COVID-positive teenage girl with other health conditions has become the youngest Victorian to die during the current outbreak. The state’s COVID-19 commander Jeroen Weimar...
Greener spine
WARRALILY’s Armstrong Creek and its “transformation of a degraded creek into a thriving ecosystem” have won gold in the 2021 Good Design Awards –...
SCT digital edition, 14 October
Victoria’s $2.5m for COVID medico recruits
VICTORIA will spend two-point-five million dollars to recruit up to one-thousand extra healthcare workers who are living overseas, to support the state's struggling health...