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  • Strike teams ready for action

    Strike teams ready for action

    Strike teams from the New South Wales Rural Fire Service have been deployed to Victoria to assist the CFA amid…

  • On tour with Jimmy Barnes

    On tour with Jimmy Barnes

    Macedon Ranges singer/songwriter Taylor Sheridan will support Aussie legend Jimmy Barnes in his upcoming national tour, culminating in a performance…

  • Help keep VGR on track

    Help keep VGR on track

    The Victorian Goldfields Railway has launched a fundraising appeal to assist with an upgrade of the tourist line between Muckleford…

  • Gardens identity crisis

    Gardens identity crisis

    Hundreds of trees and plants in Macedon Ranges botanical gardens have gone unidentified for users for years. Friends of Kyneton…

  • Sculpture to make waves

    Sculpture to make waves

    The team at Tait Decorative Iron in Castlemaine is in the process of putting the finishing touches on six sculptures for a special parkland project at Frankston.

  • Council slams ward restructuring

    Council slams ward restructuring

    Mount Alexander Shire Council has slammed a decision by the state government to create a single-member ward structure for the shire ahead of the local government elections in October.

  • Man arrested for burglary

    Man arrested for burglary

    A significant number of tools and a Nissan Navara Ute were stolen when offenders broke into the Kaiser Reef Gold Processing Plant workshop and office in Maldon early Saturday, February 10.

  • Dangerous drivers caught on camera

    Dangerous drivers caught on camera

    Dangerous drivers in Mount Alexander and Macedon Ranges were caught on camera last weekend as popular TV show Highway Patrol stopped traffic in Kyneton, Woodend, Gisborne and Castlemaine.

  • Equipment upgrades for Dhelkaya Health

    Equipment upgrades for Dhelkaya Health

    Castlemaine Hospital operating theatre equipment and aged care facilities at Maldon Hospital and Ellery House will undergo upgrades.

  • Intersection works to begin

    Intersection works to begin

    Work will soon get under way to upgrade the intersection of Barringo and Hamilton roads in New Gisborne.

  • Macropod vet bound for US

    Macropod vet bound for US

    Red Box Wildlife Shelter veterinarian Dr Mark Sayer will visit the United States this month to be the local shelter’s ambassador at the 2024 Education and Conservation Society of Macropodidae Conference.

  • Small business forced to subscribe

    Small business forced to subscribe

    A small business owner in Kyneton has called out a software service provider for doubling her subscription fee to charge her for an additional service she did not agree to subscribe to.