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  • STATE FEST IN STRIFE

    STATE FEST IN STRIFE

    The Castlemaine State Festival has been placed into voluntary administration. The local arts community was in shock late last week…

  • Score the Edgy Veg dishes!

    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…

  • Healthy Good Friday tally

    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…

  • Rats, mould and mice

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    Taylor on top

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

  • Head-on at Carlsruhe

    Head-on at Carlsruhe

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

  • Old Castlemaine Gaol up for sale

    Old Castlemaine Gaol up for sale

    The Old Castlemaine Gaol, home to The Bromley Collection Museum, has been placed on the market.

  • Council planning error

    Council planning error

    Mount Alexander Shire Council has been caught out in a planning error after a council officer issued a planning permit for an application that should have been decided by councillors.