Castlemaine

  • Students strike again for climate justice

    Students strike again for climate justice

    Castlemaine students have once again gone on ‘strike’ joining countless thousands of youngsters across the nation demanding genuine policy change…

  • COMMITTED TO THE JOB

    COMMITTED TO THE JOB

    Castlemaine’s Les Vearing is among 27 central Victorian Forest Fire Management Victoria firefighters recognised for their longstanding commitment to protecting…

  • Protest targets NAB

    Protest targets NAB

    They stood out a proverbial country mile against Friday’s grey, rainy sky. The group of demonstrators stationed out front of…

  • Hundreds turn out for testing

    Hundreds turn out for testing

    New COVID exposure sites across Macedon Ranges and Castlemaine led hundreds of people to front up for testing on the…

  • Podcast a finalist

    Podcast a finalist

    Castlemaine sustainability podcast Saltgrass has been announced as a finalist for the world’s top nature media competition – the Jackson Wild Media…

  • Wanted: ex-prisoners for theatre project

    Wanted: ex-prisoners for theatre project

    Local men who are ex-prisoners or have personally experienced the criminal justice system are wanted to participate in an innovative…

  • Mysterious marsupials

    Mysterious marsupials

    La Trobe University researchers have caught on camera one of Victoria’s most elusive and threatened marsupials – revealing there’s more…

  • Pharmacists join the vaccine rollout

    Pharmacists join the vaccine rollout

    Castlemaine pharmacists expect to begin administering the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine from this week. Late last week the town’s Thomas and…

  • Yes in my backyard

    Yes in my backyard

    A trial neighbourhood solution to reducing organics in landfill will be expanded thanks to a $60,000 grant from the Victorian…

  • Don KR fined for spill

    Don KR fined for spill

    Don KR Castlemaine fined for spill to creek

  • Falcons have landed in Castlemaine

    Falcons have landed in Castlemaine

    Castlemaine is getting ready to cheer on its first women’s footy team – the Mount Alexander Falcons.There has already been…

  • The Last Days of Loneliness to premiere in Castlemaine

    The Last Days of Loneliness to premiere in Castlemaine

    Set to premiere at Castlemaine’s Northern Arts Hotel on August 1, the latest film by Aussie filmmaker Saidin Salkic co-stars…