Warrnambool mayor spotted having a beer in the street cops $1652 fine

Warrnambool mayor spotted having a beer in the street cops $1652 fine

Mayor Tony Herbert says he is'genuinely sorry'for breaking social distancing rules after he was fined for drinking a beer with three other men.

  • byErin Pearson

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Body found during search for missing British tourist Aslan King

Body found during search for missing British tourist Aslan King

About 10.15am on Tuesday,police located the body of a man in a creek. The creek was about a kilometre from the campsite where Mr King was last seen.

  • bySimone Fox Koob
'Bewildered':Search resumes two days after missing British tourist ran from campsite

'Bewildered':Search resumes two days after missing British tourist ran from campsite

Police are investigating whether missing British tourist Aslan King who ran from his campsite into the bush on the Great Ocean Road is taking shelter in one of local vacant houses or has hitchhiked back to Melbourne.

  • bySimone Fox Koob,Ashleigh McMillan andNicole Precel
Injured British man who ran from campsite still missing near the Twelve Apostles

Injured British man who ran from campsite still missing near the Twelve Apostles

Police have resumed a desperate search for an injured British tourist who ran away from his friends in the early hours of Saturday.

  • byAshleigh McMillan andNicole Precel
'Disoriented,lost in the bush':British camper missing near Twelve Apostles

'Disoriented,lost in the bush':British camper missing near Twelve Apostles

Hours before he disappeared,Aslan King posted a video of Friday's sunset at the Twelve Apostles on his Instagram account.

  • byAshleigh McMillan
Powercor'knew about rotten pole and failed to act'before bushfire

Powercor'knew about rotten pole and failed to act'before bushfire

Electricity giant Powercor knew about a rotten power pole in 2005,13 years before it snapped and caused a bushfire in the state's south-west,according to lawyers acting for its victims.

  • byAndrew Thomson
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Police complaints in spotlight after man's neck breaks during arrest

Police complaints in spotlight after man's neck breaks during arrest

Three police officers arrived at Chris Karadaglis’s Warrnambool home to ask him to turn the music down. Minutes later,the 47-year-old was a quadriplegic.

  • byNick McKenzie andGrace Tobin
Timeline:Gerald Ridsdale's decades-long trail of destruction

Timeline:Gerald Ridsdale's decades-long trail of destruction

The Catholic Church knew as early as 1970 that Gerald Ridsdale was a danger to children - yet it kept moving the priest from parish to parish,where he abused many more minors,until his first conviction in 1993.

  • byDebbie Cuthbertson
Warrnambool's Weir divide:horses,beaches and the damage done

Warrnambool's Weir divide:horses,beaches and the damage done

Darren Weir's success brought fame and fortune to Warrnambool's sands,then it drove a wedge through the community. Can both sides make a new start?

  • byMichael Cox
Father and son drown trying to save tourist at Port Campbell

Father and son drown trying to save tourist at Port Campbell

Father and son Ross and Andrew Powell,life-long members of the life saving club and prominent figures in the dairy farming industry,drowned when rescuing a tourist on Sunday morning.

  • byMichael Fowler,Erin Pearson andMatilda Boseley
Three dead in two days in separate smashes in Victoria's west

Three dead in two days in separate smashes in Victoria's west

Three women have died in just 48 hours in fatal car crashes in the days before the Australia Day long weekend.

  • bySimone Fox Koob