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If you like to be in the know with the local news wherever you are – here are the Warrnambool local headlines for today…

Storm front batters homes, cuts power

Victorian police say the Western Highway in Western Victoria has reopened after a storm front battered houses and trees in the area.

Coleraine keen for bushfires report

The south-west Victorian community of Coleraine is anxiously awaiting the final report of the Bushfires Royal Commission.

Tender scheme helps boost local economy

A Ballarat council program developed to encourage it to award tenders to local businesses has contributed $21 million to the city's economy.

Portland cows help meet China dairy demand

Three-thousand dairy cows will depart the Port of Portland for China next week.

Man jailed over hotel room bashing

A Bacchus Marsh man has been jailed for seriously injuring and threatening to kill a woman in a Ballarat hotel room in June last year.

Police probe potential US link to missing Ballarat woman

Victorian detectives are investigating a possible link between the disappearance of a Ballarat woman in 1973 and the murder of an unidentified woman in the United States seven years later.

News supplied courtesy of ABC Online