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Minister Michaela Settle joined Member for Bass Jordan Crugnale recently to visit the State Coal Mine Rescue Station Arts Centre in Wonthaggi to celebrate its completion.

Ambulance Victoria has welcomed more graduate paramedics to its ranks, as well as four highly skilled intensive care paramedics from overseas and interstate.

Victoria is marking 25 years since a landmark international study co-authored by Victorian scientists helped establish genomic selection as a powerful tool used around the world to improve how farmers breed healthier animals and grow better crops.

As Victoria heads into spring, people are being reminded to take simple steps to stay safe around magpies and other swooping birds.

Three units for staff at Kerang District Health have been completed.

Premier Ben Carroll has announced the recruitment of 200 more police reservists – to get station counters open and put more frontline police back on the beat.

Repairs are the most widespread issue renters across Victoria are seeking to address with their landlord, new data released by Tenants Victoria has revealed.

Victorian farmers and rural landholders are invited to attend a webinar on Wednesday 2 September at 7 pm to help prepare for the upcoming fire season.

Victoria’s world-class healthcare workforce delivered a record-breaking number of planned surgeries last year.

William Middlemiss was born on June 5, 1831 at Dunira Estate, Perthshire, Scotland. His parents were Thomas Middlemiss and Janet Ewan.

Forget body obsession Adapted from the 2016 Disney version, Moana is a highly popular musical adventure film. The super-heroic Moana sets out on a mission to the Oceanic seas to save her people.

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Caitlin Marks was raised by her maternal grandparents from an early age, following the unexpected death of her mother. Her grandmother was a craftsperson and her grandfather an author and journalist, her mother's brother a musician. Caitlin says creativity has always pulsed in her background and through her veins, and she continues to find large parts of herself and her story within all these pursuits. Photography makes the creative quadrella complete. She chatted with Donna Kelly.

Daylesford classical artist Deny Christian will hold an exhibition of her New School of Classical Painting students' work in Stanbridge Hall on Saturday and Sunday, September 19 and 20.

Since March, the Bigger Hearts Dementia Alliance Ballarat has provided the opportunity for 15 people from Creswick and surrounds district, to come together on a weekly basis in Creswick to participate in Art Escape 2026.

The Swiss Italian Festa will return to Hepburn Springs in October, bringing together food, wine, music, history and community for a celebration of the unique Swiss Italian heritage that helped shape the region.

Women from Trentham and surrounding districts are invited to take time out for themselves at the first-ever Trentham Women’s Wellbeing Day, to be held on Saturday, September 5.