AROUND twenty former Drypac employees will start work with Drouin packaging manufacturer Elite Pack after it secured State Government backing for an expansion project.

COUNCILLORS have approved a $50,000 refurbishment project for the KA Pretty Soundshell in Drouin’s Civic Park which will see the canopy protected from vandals.

GREENS candidate for McMillan Malcolm McKelvie has responded to Wayne Swan’s federal budget, expressing disappointment about continued subsidies for mining companies.

PETA Searle is a woman succeeding in a man’s world.

TONY Abbott has pledged to create jobs in Geelong should he become prime minister, after Ford's decision to pull out of car making in Australia in 2016.

A MAN accused of hiding out in Australia while US authorities hunted him for being a co-conspirator of an illegal arms dealer has been extradited.

TWO Afghan civilians, an Afghan police officer and five Taliban insurgents have died in a gun battle to end a Taliban assault on a UN building in Kabul.

THIRTY people were evacuated from apartments in Canberra after a fire broke out in a ground floor unit, in one of two fires in the ACT on Saturday morning.