Lucy Crock

From 18 weeks paid leave to lactation rooms and IVF support, Geelong’s biggest employers are rewriting the rules on work-life balance.

Allegations of inappropriate sexual touching between children at two Torquay kindergartens are being investigated, the Geelong Advertiser can reveal.

School office staff with no medical training are being left to administer complex medications to children as qualified nurses disappear from education system, a local insider has claimed.

Staff at Deakin University are bracing for mass job losses and a major shake-up, with the academic behind La Trobe University’s cuts summoning “affected staff” to a 2.30pm briefing tomorrow.

Following more than a decade of development, Villawood Properties is down to its final Armstrong Estate lots, with construction expected to be completed by November.

Frustrated parents are calling for Geelong council to use the upcoming winter school holidays to fix repeated flooding at a Hamlyn Heights specialist school’s pedestrian crossing they say is a hazard for students.

Actor, lawyer and “Geelong boy at heart” Isaac Crawley has landed a starring role in Netflix thriller creature-feature, Killer Whale.

Geelong council says it risks becoming a “spectator” as state government-approved data centres consume the region’s residential land.

A Torquay father is demanding answers after council workers sprayed glyphosate around a playground frequented by toddlers and left no signage to warn barefoot children or their parents.

Two Geelong communities celebrated a centenarian over the weekend, with lively birthday parties for both Geelong West’s Doreen Veronica Ring and Belmont’s Reginald “Reg” O’Neill.