Environment

  • River warning lifted

    River warning lifted

    A health warning applied to the Campaspe River between Kyneton and Lake Eppalock since early June was lifted on Sunday…

  • Castlemaine unwrapped!

    Castlemaine unwrapped!

    A special tour taking place in Castlemaine next week will show participants where and how they can shop locally to…

  • Courage on climate workshop

    Courage on climate workshop

    Locals worried about climate change and its impacts are being encouraged not to despair and invited to join with like-minded…

  • From EPA exec to Coliban Water chief

    From EPA exec to Coliban Water chief

    An executive director of the Environment Protection Authority will be the next managing director of Coliban Water. Damian Wells, from…

  • Fire compo to court

    Fire compo to court

    A Lancefield landholder whose property was burnt out by bushfire as a result of a state government planned burn that…

  • Council urges EPA action

    Macedon Ranges Shire Council will write to the Environment Protection Authority expressing concern for Coliban Water’s continuing discharge of diminished…

  • Farm zone nod

    Farm zone nod

    Farming activities are expected to intensify for a notable Rochford equine property as Macedon Ranges Shire councillors went against the…

  • Irrigation plan a silver bullet?

    Irrigation plan a silver bullet?

    A plan to dispose of excess wastewater from the Kyneton Water Reclamation Plant has been hatched by Coliban Water in…

  • Climate call continues

    Climate call continues

    Castlemaine students are among the many Australians who continue to demand meaningful action to address climate change. And on Friday…

  • A win for conservation – National Park recommended for the Wombat Forest

    A win for conservation – National Park recommended for the Wombat Forest

    A Wombat-Lerderderg National Park and Cobaw Conservation Park will be created if the state government accepts recommendations released by the…

  • A Victorian first

    A Victorian first

    Up on the hill in Harcourt, local fruit growers Katie Finlay, Sas Allardice and Merv Carr have been busily working…

  • Sustainability success

    Sustainability success

    Kyneton Secondary College year eight science students and their teacher met in the dark last Thursday morning at Kyneton Railway…