11/10/2008 | WARRNAMBOOL's popular Wunta Fiesta will be revamped by shifting the Friday night festivities from Liebig Street to Flagstaff Hill. The Standard understands that the move to the city's maritime tourist...
11/10/2008 | LONDON, Paris, Stockholm or Rome -- Warrnambool is providing a flight path for the world's next international pilots.
The city's first commercial pilot course took off at the Warrnambool Airport th...
11/10/2008 | A FORMER surf lifesaver who collected, viewed and catalogued nearly 39,000 images of child pornography will serve a minimum of four months in jail.
Linton John Milne, 29, of Logans Beach Road, War...
11/10/2008 | [FUDROP6]CANDIDATES for the looming November council elections are airing policy issues they see as important and fresh.
However, many of the topics have been around for decades.
A glance th...
11/10/2008 | THE pumping of water from underground aquifers in the Otway Ranges has resulted in skyrocketing acid levels, local landholders claim.
And if long-term proposals go ahead to extract water to supply...
11/10/2008 | WARRNAMBOOL sparky Mal Price was booted out of the town's Apex club several years ago. But it wasn't because his cheeky nature got him into trouble.
At the time, the cut-off age was 40, so the matt...
11/10/2008 | Wunta chairwoman Bronwen Levett would not reveal details but said there would be "some changes and hopefully positive changes so people will really embrace them".
Traders yesterday claimed it was a...
11/10/2008 | SOUTH-WEST butchers and auctioneers are welcoming calls for meat and livestock workers to ditch electrical cattle prodders.
A new Department of Primary Industries' (DPI) study revealed cattle subje...
11/10/2008 | "You would probably be looking at in excess of $60,000."
Ben Hurlestone, 19, was the other student accepted into the course. Both he and Mr Fitzgerald have been guaranteed work at the Warrnambool A...
11/10/2008 | LIFELINE South West Victoria has defended its charity shop donation system and paid tribute to its volunteers in response to a recent current affairs television report.
The report highlighted issue...
11/10/2008 | FARMERS across the south-west will be making full use of the perfect weather today as they begin their spring harvest.
Many of the region's landholders have their pastures cut and will use this wee...
10/10/2008 | THE region's tourism industry has been hit hard after a big slump in visitor numbers during winter and early spring.
Global economic turmoil has also painted an uncertain future for the lucrative i...
10/10/2008 | THE emergency department at South West Healthcare's Warrnambool hospital treated more than 24,000 patients last financial year - the equivalent of three out of four Warrnambool residents.
F...
10/10/2008 | A MELBOURNE man facing drug trafficking charges has been refused bail while his co-accused has been released on a $10,000 surety.
Jason Scott Verschaeren, 20, of Victor Court, Hampton Park, and Da...
10/10/2008 | ENTRIES for the south-west's biggest agricultural show have plummeted, causing organisers to extend the nomination closing date by another week.
Warrnambool Show organisers told The Standard yester...
10/10/2008 | NEARLY 90 per cent of Warrnambool mothers choose to breastfeed but almost half will give up before their baby is six months old because they don't feel they have community support.
The Australian B...
10/10/2008 | SOUTH-WEST Victoria's multi-million-dollar power station projects are still on track despite investor confidence being rocked by the global economic turmoil.
Santos and Origin Energy yesterday conf...
10/10/2008 | It also had seven per less visitors during August and 7.6 per cent less last month, compared to last year's figures.
After the August tumble, visitor information centre foot traffic revived in Sept...
10/10/2008 | FROM taking out the bins to caring for pets, no job is too much trouble for a cheerful Melissa Gurry.
When Elaine and Robert McKinnon moved to Warrnambool in 1990, Miss Gurry was the first person t...
10/10/2008 | FOR Australia's former "First Lady" Tamie Fraser, gardening has been a source of reflection, tranquillity and even a bargaining tool for diplomacy.
Mrs Fraser and her husband, former prime ...
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