The City of Ballarat is bringing together multiple emergency services agencies to promote farm safety with a farm safety information session set for next month.
A large number of CFA members have participated in a major multiagency training exercise over last weekend, tasking crews to respond to a simulated aircraft crash and grass fire at the Bacchus Marsh aerodrome.
Multiple musicians and community musical groups will be performing at the Commercial Hotel in Kingston as part of this Saturday’s global Play Music on The Porch Day.
Hepburn Shire Council has just recently endorsed its first Arts and Culture Strategy with the aim to provide a strategic framework for artists, art organisations, businesses and visitors to ferment a healthy arts culture.
Funding from Telstra's Foundation for Rural & Regional Renewal is enabling the Hepburn Shire Council to host ongoing free sessions for local residents to learn how to make better use of their devices, stay safe online and improve their tech knowledge.
Just in time to catch the first stirrings of spring, a very special tree planting took place in the famed Avenue of Honour at Kingston on Saturday, August 10.
A young Clunes girl has won silver in a major international jiu-jitsu championship event held in Florida, USA... and then chased it up by taking gold in the Australian Nationals.
Daylesford hospital’s new operating theater has officially opened and has already started being used to provide locals with much-needed procedures, with the hospital also putting on new staff.
The City of Ballarat is inviting public input and suggestions on how best to improve walking and cycling corridors across Ballarat and linking to surrounding areas, including Creswick.
The Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC) will invest $3 million in a new five-year soybean breeding program that will be led by the University of Adelaide and aims to deliver new elite soybean varieties to Australian growers.
Agriculture Victoria Land Management Extension Officer Clem Sturmfels, is encouraging farmers to think carefully before considering cleaning out sediment from their dams.
The City of Ballarat has joined forces with Compost Revolution to provide residents with rebates delivering up to 40 per cent off the retail price of compost bins and worm farm products.
Victoria’s biosecurity system will be strengthened with a $6.1 million investment by the Victorian Government for projects that help prevent, monitor, and control diseases in cattle, sheep, goat, swine and honeybee industries.
The beautiful Coliban Springs private garden at Redesdale will open to the public over two days in October as part of the Open Gardens Victoria scheme.
Beekeepers are being reminded to report and treat notifiable diseases after a large scale commercial western Victoria apiarist was found guilty of failure to manage American foulbrood (AFB) in hives.
Local garden lovers are girding themselves for a special Open Gardens Victoria event coming up next month on Saturday, September 28, at the historic Clunes Presbytery and Garden.
Local job-seekers are being encouraged to register for the Bendigo Jobs Expo 2024 taking place from 12pm to 2pm on Wednesday September 4 at Red Energy Arena, West Bendigo.
Known to quite a few as the 'ukulele queen of the Bellarine, Sarah Carroll and her fabulous band The Big Fuss are headed to Creswick to launch her new album NQR&B next month.
