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Full speed ahead for rail trail

The quest for a world-class rail trail in central Victoria is full speed ahead now that the Castlemaine Maryborough Rail Trail has secured council...

Vandals target signs in pokies fight

Signs with the message to 'Keep Romsey pokies free' in the Romsey township were targeted with spray paint last week. Sometime overnight last Wednesday and...

STATE FEST IN STRIFE

The Castlemaine State Festival has been placed into voluntary administration. The local arts community was in shock late last week when the festival board announced...

Score the Edgy Veg dishes!

Fook Shing in Kyneton is entering a vegan mapo tofu dish in this year’s Edgy Veg Awards. It sits alongside 20 other entries including...

Healthy Good Friday tally

Communities around Victoria have dug deep for The Royal Children’s Hospital Good Friday Appeal with an overall final tally of $23,368,724. The tally for regional...

Rats, mould and mice

Kyneton Football Netball Club netballers are facing another season using a mouldy shed as their changerooms.

Outside areas want say in pokies survey

Romsey will have its say on pokies in Macedon Ranges Shire Council's plebiscite but some residents feel the survey area doesn't extend far enough.

Call for VCAT reform

Mitchell Shire councillors are advocating for reform in the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal decision-making process.

Kyneton rallies for the forest

About 500 Kyneton locals joined Victorian Greens Senator, Janet Rice, and comedian Arj Barker in an organised protest march last Sunday against salvage logging in the Wombat State Forest.

Plebiscite on pokies

Romsey residents are being asked to complete a survey relating to an application for gaming machines at the Romsey Hotel.

Taylor on top

Young Gisborne filmmaker and artist Lucas Taylor is being celebrated with the best in the state.

Head-on at Carlsruhe

Two people had to be cut from their vehicle following a head-on collision at Carlsruhe on Saturday.

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