Chelsea Bunting

More graduates are ditching the Surf Coast and choosing warmer destinations to celebrate the end of their high schooling, but police will still be out in force.

The mum of a two-year-old girl who was days away from dying before she was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes is warning parents of the symptoms to look out for.

Police have arrested 14 people for allegedly stealing from stores in central Geelong this week as retail thefts in the city jumped by 38 per cent in the past 12 months.

A Portarlington tradie is in the fight of his life as he battles two rare diseases.

                

Harry Thomas is an energetic four-year-old, obsessed with football.

Prep students are being taught about gender identity and sexuality at an alternative school on the Surf Coast, with parents furious their kids are being exposed to “inappropriate” conversations.

A Leopold dad has been busted growing cannabis in an “elaborate” backyard set-up after he previously avoided jail for cultivating the illegal plant.

A Leopold family’s beloved pomeranian pup was mauled to death and their bulldog left critically injured after they were attacked by two rottweilers in their own backyard.

A Lovely Banks woman has been fined but escaped without conviction after the RSPCA allegedly found five of her horses were “severely underweight”.