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  • VGR in state’s new rail training pilot

    VGR in state’s new rail training pilot

    A new pilot program will offer training and hands-on experience helping Victorian Goldfields Railway upgrade the tourist railway’s infrastructure between…

  • Building community resilience

    Building community resilience

    A number of local resilience groups have cropped up in the region in recent years and have seen neighbours forming…

  • Tractor rollover traps man at New Gisborne

    Tractor rollover traps man at New Gisborne

    A man was injured in a tractor rollover at New Gisborne yesterday afternoon. Emergency services were called to the property…

  • Local heroes honoured

    Local heroes honoured

    Eight Gisborne Fire Brigade volunteers who responded to catastrophic bushfires in NSW earlier this year will be formally acknowledged for…

  • Environmental journalist turns MC for gliders

    Environmental journalist turns MC for gliders

    By Bron Willis Gregg Borschmann has had many conversations with editors over his 30-year career as an environmental journalist, but…

  • ‘A LICENCE TO POLLUTE’

    ‘A LICENCE TO POLLUTE’

    Coliban Water’s planned upgrade of the Kyneton Water Reclamation Plant will not be completed in time to prevent further illegal…

  • Dispute to Consumer Affairs

    Dispute to Consumer Affairs

    Members of Mount Alexander Animal Welfare have written to Consumer Affairs Victoria airing concerns about the conduct of the organisation’s…

  • Market back in Lancefield

    Market back in Lancefield

    After being held at Romsey for the past two months, the popular Lancefield Farmers Market is returning to Lancefield this…

  • An ‘act of intellectual reconciliation’

    An ‘act of intellectual reconciliation’

    The ancient methods traditional Indigenous cultures used to memorise important information had to work. They could literally mean the difference…

  • Join the Royal family

    Join the Royal family

    Castlemaine’s Theatre Royal launched its second annual ‘Loyal Royal’ membership drive on October 1 and is once again inviting community…

  • Platypus numbers good at Malmsbury

    Platypus numbers good at Malmsbury

    Eight platypus – six males and two females – were recorded during a recent trapping survey along the Coliban River…

  • Chicks go online

    Chicks go online

    It is time to don your favourite frock and floral accessory, switch your computer on and turn up the volume…