Macedon Ranges Shire Council

  • Reserve plan funded in good time

    Reserve plan funded in good time

    It didn’t make the budget but now Macedon Ranges Shire Council has found unspent funds for a Riddells Creek Recreation…

  • Tighter leash on free dog walking

    Tighter leash on free dog walking

    A group of dog owners are barking back at a proposal to shorten the off-leash Campaspe River Walk Track. Macedon…

  • Riddells Creek to double in size

    Riddells Creek to double in size

    Macedon Ranges Shire Council has questioned the Victorian Government’s approval of an Amess Road development, to double the size of…

  • Drainage problems stall street works

    Drainage problems stall street works

    Romsey’s Stawell Street upgrade planned for completion in June has hit a snag and is now expected to continue into…

  • Gisborne “outer suburb” fear

    Gisborne “outer suburb” fear

    Gisborne residents have raised the alarm over urbanisation risk in plans to increase the approved 768-lot Ross Watt Road development…

  • Councils hamstrung, wildlife inquiry reveals

    Councils hamstrung, wildlife inquiry reveals

    New technologies and ideas have emerged to reduce wildlife road-strike, but councils are hamstrung by limited finances and autonomy, Macedon…

  • Inquiry hears of burn out

    Inquiry hears of burn out

    Wildlife carers across the region are burning out amid increasing case loads and cost pressures, the Victorian Parliament’s inquiry into…

  • Hotel site to housing?

    Hotel site to housing?

    Could big changes soon be on the cards for the old Romsey Hotel site? A planning application was lodged last…

  • Macedon Ranges councillor dies

    Macedon Ranges councillor dies

    Macedon Ranges Shire councillor, Christine Walker, died late last week. Fellow South Ward councillor and mayor, Dom Bonanno, said today…

  • Contractors sought

    Contractors sought

    An expansion of the Macedon Ranges Sports Precinct in New Gisborne is now out to tender, with designs progressed and…

  • Policy to target AI use?

    Policy to target AI use?

    Artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping industries and Macedon Ranges Shire Council will soon consider a new purposed policy to catch…

  • Anzac events in a spin

    Anzac events in a spin

    “Macedon Ranges council bureaucrats should hang their heads in shame” for decisions putting two local Anzac Day services in a…