Portland
New deal to power up Alcoa’s Portland smelter until 2035
Aluminium giant Alcoa has locked in a new electricity deal to power its Portland smelter in Victoria’s south-west, strengthening the outlook for the plant’s future.
- by Nick Toscano
Latest
My ancestor knew more about atrocities against Aboriginal people than he let on, inquiry told
Atrocities during the Frontier Wars must be honestly acknowledged, a writer and a landowner have told the state’s truth-telling commission.
- by Tony Wright
The Last Word
Climate crisis
We’ll be stuck like shags on a rock when sea levels really surge
The sea rises, and having witnessed a preview years ago on my own beach, I am here to report that the future is ugly.
- by Tony Wright
Costs down on the coast: Where to buy a beach house on a budget
Budget-conscious buyers can find holiday homes in a range of locations across Victoria at different price points – provided they know where to look.
- by Jim Malo
Search for teen swept out to sea by ‘surprise’ wave paused for night
Two teenagers were snorkelling at a swimming hole in rock pools near Cape Bridgewater about 7pm on Tuesday when they were swept into the ocean.
- by Alex Crowe, Lachlan Abbott and Tony Wright
The Last Word
MH370 disappearance
Trawler skipper’s memory from the deep dredges up intriguing questions
Six months after Malaysia Airlines flight 370 disappeared, Kit Olver and his crew hauled up what they were convinced was the wing of a jet airliner.
- by Tony Wright
Tony Wright’s Saturday column
Biodiversity
Sammi the elephant seal has taken a wrong turn, and so have we
A gas exploration company seeks permission to blast continuous noise into a seabed from which a rich chain of life explodes in glorious style every day.
- by Tony Wright
Tony Wright’s Column
Indigenous
In the eyes of others: Visiting a distant past captured in a covered wagon
Thomas Hannay set off on a horse-drawn covered wagon to photograph Victoria in the 1850s. One picture he took tells its own powerful story.
- by Tony Wright
Family pleads for wanted man to turn himself in over unsolved death
Victorian woman Meaghan Louise Rose, 25, was found dead at the bottom of Point Cartwright Cliffs in 1997. A man wanted over her death is still being hunted by police.
- by Cloe Read
There she blows: Mega Southern Ocean wind farm zone unveiled
The 5000-square kilometre wind farm zone would stretch from outside Warrnambool, on the Great Ocean Road, to Port MacDonnell in South Australia.
- by Bianca Hall
Exclusive
Shipping
Long saga of abandoned ship’s skeleton crew finally ends
After being abandoned at sea for six months, with just a single pleasure each day, the remaining seafarers will finally leave Portland Bay and return to their families in the Philippines.
- by Tony Wright
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