Warrnambool Brigade officer-in-charge said the home was fully engulfed when brigades arrived. CFA brigades from Allansford, Warrnambool, Cudgee, Naringal and the Hopkins Curdies group crews took about an hour to bring the fire under control.

There is a train bridge in East Warrnambool that I cross under on my daily commute to work. For years, as I passed under I would glance up at the spray painted message on the bridge that read 'Love Life'. I kind of read it as a directive, ...

Couples, families and friends walked, cycled, skated and scooted across the bridge linking Breakwater and Belmont, which also spans the Barwon River and Geelong-Warrnambool rail line. Officials estimated more than 500 people took part in the official ...

Allansford is an employment hub, with Warrnambool Cheese and Butter one of the region's largest employers. This has a flow-on effect to the region's sub-contractors and farmers, while a range of smaller, family-run businesses employ the townspeople, ...

Jamie Scott Weston, 36, of Deans Court, pleaded guilty in Warrnambool Magistrates Court to three counts of breaching an intervention order and one charge of threatening to inflict serious injury. He was convicted, fined $500 and jailed for seven months ...

WARRNAMBOOL'S mayor has thrown her support behind efforts to stop $10 million in government funding cuts for South West TAFE, which has triggered a decision to axe 43 jobs and sharply increase fees. Tonight Cr Jacinta Ermacora will ask colleagues to ...

DEAKIN University president Luke Jackson has questioned the sustainability of the Warrnambool and District league after his Sharks failed to score against premiership favourite Panmure on Saturday. The round-eight contest was meant to be somewhat of a ...

A couple of weeks ago while exploring some of the Warrnambool Art Gallery's more unusual artefacts we talked about a Zulu killing stick - today another Zulu artefact in the form of a necklace. The necklace is made of lots of tiny beads of different ...