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  • Culvert crash – resident calls for roadworks for safety

    Culvert crash – resident calls for roadworks for safety

    Barfold resident Maggie Supple is calling on her local council to take action to prevent a serious car accident on…

  • Restoration plans for Ellim-eek

    Restoration plans for Ellim-eek

    An “abundance of vacant commercial properties in Kyneton” has helped secure the restoration of a circa 1906 house of heritage…

  • Forged in fire

    Forged in fire

    Limited copies of a unique handmade book recounting personal Black Saturday bushfire survival stories by residents of the Redesdale area…

  • Council ready to fight

    Council ready to fight

    The decision on a controversial 711-lot development plan in Gisborne now falls to the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal after…

  • 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…

  • Black ban on Green

    Black ban on Green

    A key objector to a disputed Lancefield development plan overlay has been legally ordered to keep his distance from Macedon…

  • A face to the word

    A face to the word

    Young people in Kyneton got the opportunity to put a face to the word ‘refugee’ and hear first-hand of their…

  • 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…

  • Surprise $3M for new station

    Surprise $3M for new station

    Riddells Creek firefighters are elated with the guarantee of a new $3 million station by 2021. On Sunday, local MP…