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Host of COVID restrictions scrapped

Close contact quarantine, proof of vaccination and mask mandates for most settings have been scrapped with a raft of other pandemic orders.

Licence on hold

Coliban Water’s bid to amend its licence for the Kyneton Water Reclamation Plant is temporarily on hold, after Environment Protection Authority Victoria...

Don’t burn your bridge… just yet

Eve Lamb It seems the small red pedestrian bridge installed across a public roadside drain on Castlemaine's Barker Street...

Promises to fix mobile blackspots

New Optus and Telstra mobile phone base station sites will be built at Gisborne South. The federal government announced...

Work in high places

Eve Lamb At a lofty six metres high, the ceilings at historic Maldon Primary School are imposing – but...

XR spreads climate message

Eve Lamb Local climate activists have been visibly ramping up their activity in a quest to see climate put...

Supermarket case adjourned

The 10-day Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal hearing into the development of the proposed Woolworths supermarket in Castlemaine recently wound to a...

Mount to host Dawn Service

The Mount Macedon Anzac Day Dawn Service Committee will be conducting a service at the Mount Macedon War Memorial Cross this year.

A bridge too far?

Eve Lamb A small bright red footbridge installed over a public drain by a local couple has created more...

Witnesses sought for suspected hit and run

Kyneton police continue to investigate and appeal for public assistance after a man was found seriously injured in Kyneton over the weekend.

Great Good Friday effort

Local fire brigades, businesses and individuals across Macedon Ranges and Mount Alexander have boosted this year's Royal Children's Hospital Good Friday Appeal...

Forest clearing angers

As 'salvage logging' gets under way in the Wombat State Forest, local residents have raised the alarm over the nature and intent...

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