CFA exercise in the Cobaws
In recent years, there have been several major fires in the Cobaw Ranges resulting in some serious losses, especially to land and property.
On Sunday...
This project was picked!
A project engaging local teenagers to help build Australia's biggest miniature railway at Harcourt has won a $198,000 boost, emerging as one of the...
Co-op gains Greens
The Victorian Greens have thrown their full support behind the model of a community-managed Kyneton Town Square.
A Kyneton and District Town Square Co-Op has...
Travel writer sets down swag in the ‘Maine
There's not much of Australia that Lee Atkinson hasn't seen.
But when it came to setting down her swag on a more permanent basis the...
Abuzz for new microscope
Honeybees will be put under the microscope to give diseases like nosema and American foulbrood the buzz-off in the Macedon Ranges.
Woodend Bee-Friendly Society has...
400 reasons to celebrate
Ask learner drivers Lily McMahon and Tilly Donkin what they've got out of doing a unique intensive local learner driver course and they're quick...
The buzz on honey
Buying honey from local beekeepers and reading the label are both good ways to ensure you'll get pure honey, local beekeeper Peter McDonald says...
Don’t panic, call a beekeeper!
Spring is a busy time for beekeepers as this is the time of year when honeybees swarm.
Castlemaine beekeeper Daniel BeeShepherd from the Castlemaine Bee...
Lose yourself to dance
It's Mental Health Week across Mount Alexander Shire and there's no better time to put on your dancing shoes and lose yourself to dance.
Join...
Support networks vital
New data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics reveals suicide rates are at a 10-year high.
The Causes of Death Australia 2017 report, released last...
Balloons no party for wildlife
Balloons may be an international symbol for celebration but that is the last thing on the minds of livestock owners when the litter lands...
Fuel prices skyrocket
Victorians have been hit by the biggest surge in fuel prices in more than a decade. RACV motoring experts explain why this has happened...
