Preparations are already well under way for this year's returning Trentham Easter Art and Craft Show which will be staged in the new Mechanics in High St Trentham this April.
A lively program of music is in store as the beautiful Hepburn Mineral Springs sets the scene for next month's Sunset in the Springs free community concert series.
The CFA and RSPCA Victoria are urging residents to include pets in their bushfire survival plans, with significant fire activity having already impacting Victoria this summer.
Now at its half-way point, more than 5,000 households across the city of Ballarat have opted into a 12-month pilot program allowing them to recycle their ‘scrunchable’ soft plastics.
Police have in recent days seized approximately 750 vapes and 3000 sticks of illicit tobacco, from a service station in Kyabram, as part of an ongoing investigation.
A woman from Mount Macedon has been charged with drug trafficking in recent days, following a police investigation into a death at a retreat that was held in Clunes last April.
Bendigo Crime Investigation Unit detectives are appealing for public assistance following two separate fires in bushland east of Bendigo on Boxing Day in December.
Victoria's health miniser Mary-Anne Thomas has announced 400 grants, worth up to $40,000, have now been awarded to medical graduates who take up a career in general practice.
Victoria's Minister for Planning Sonya Kilkenny has this month announced the recipients of the first round of Disaster Recovery Heritage Grants for heritage sites damaged by floods, storms and bushfires.
Thousands of Victorian Year 12 graduates are set to begin their journeys towards rewarding careers through university and TAFE as more young Victorians received offers for post-secondary courses this month.
A total 994 animals were adopted from the Ballarat Animal Shelter last year, including 638 cats and kittens, 352 dogs and puppies, three rabbits and even a pig, who has gone on to live on a farm with other pigs and farm animals.
All are invited to get along to two upcoming Australia Day events organised by local community groups in the Hepburn Shire and taking place on Australia Day, Sunday January 26.
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The Hepburn Shire Council is inviting all residents of the shire to attend an event this Friday and celebrate the Community Award winners for 2025, while also welcoming the shire’s newest Australian citizens.
