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  • Housing's next big challenge

    Housing's next big challenge

    Mount Alexander Shire Accommodation and Respite Group is planning to ramp up work on its second major project ‘A Home…

  • Housing’s next big challenge

    Housing’s next big challenge

    Mount Alexander Shire Accommodation and Respite Group is planning to ramp up work on its second major project ‘A Home…

  • Anti-vaxxers target region

    Anti-vaxxers target region

    Anti-vaxxer leaflets landing in letterboxes across the region are spreading dangerous and deliberate falsehoods and should be binned on receipt,…

  • 'Tack-on Sunburyisation'

    'Tack-on Sunburyisation'

    A developer’s bid to subdivide a 60-acre parcel of farmland at Kyneton South into 87 residential lots would be a…

  • ‘Tack-on Sunburyisation’

    ‘Tack-on Sunburyisation’

    A developer’s bid to subdivide a 60-acre parcel of farmland at Kyneton South into 87 residential lots would be a…

  • Is Kyneton lovin' it? Lobby group tells fast-food giant to 'burger off!'

    Is Kyneton lovin' it? Lobby group tells fast-food giant to 'burger off!'

    A Kyneton lobby group is spitting chips over plans for fast-food giant McDonalds to lay foundations at their town’s northern…

  • Is Kyneton lovin’ it? Lobby group tells fast-food giant to ‘burger off!’

    Is Kyneton lovin’ it? Lobby group tells fast-food giant to ‘burger off!’

    A Kyneton lobby group is spitting chips over plans for fast-food giant McDonalds to lay foundations at their town’s northern…

  • Call to “bring gym into current century”

    Call to “bring gym into current century”

    Kyneton residents are pushing for upgrades to the town’s council-run aquatic centre gym to improve the layout and reduce wait…

  • Call to "bring gym into current century"

    Call to "bring gym into current century"

    Kyneton residents are pushing for upgrades to the town’s council-run aquatic centre gym to improve the layout and reduce wait…

  • Roo cull climb hits hard

    Roo cull climb hits hard

    Macedon Ranges Wildlife Network is urging Agriculture Minister Mary-Anne Thomas to take the state’s increased kangaroo harvesting kill quota and…

  • Affordable housing model makes conversation starter

    Affordable housing model makes conversation starter

    Putting home ownership in reach of those who may otherwise never afford it is front and centre at this Thursday…

  • Farm build rights gone?

    Farm build rights gone?

    Landowners in the Macedon Ranges will lose their existing rights to build a dwelling on 40ha or more in the…