There are countless young people in Ballarat that make an incredible contribution to the city and the time is now for them to have their moment in the spotlight.
The Macedon Ranges Shire Council has endorsed a new policy to guide how it manages complaints and behaviour deemed to be "unreasonable" into the future.
The CFA's ‘Prevent Detect Escape: Home Fire Safety for people at higher risk’ e-learning module has recently been updated and is now available to complete for free, online.
The Macedon Ranges Shire Council has welcomed the First People’s Assembly of Victoria for the first time to mark National Reconciliation Week in the Macedon Ranges.
The Macedon Ranges Shire Council has endorsed a new Draft Heritage Strategy in recent days, ahead of inviting community consultation in response to its contents.
The Hepburn Shire Council has appointed seven community members to its new Daylesford Community Facilities Project Advisory Group to consult with the council and community on potential redevelopment of Daylesford Town Hall into a community facilities hub.
The Hepburn Shire Council has entered a new 21-year lease for the operation of the Clunes Caravan Park with the incumbent tenants, Matthew and Dorothy Russell.
Ballarat Divisional Response Unit officers are appealing for public assistance after over $400,000 worth of items were stolen from the Ballarat suburb of Redan last month.
Luku Ngärra: The Law of the Land is heading to Castlemaine’s Theatre Royal this evening, Thursday, May 30, with the filmmaker and special guests, as part of the Indigenous Film Festival.
Hepburn Shire Council have completed a tremendous task in producing the Future Hepburn Housing Strategy, but they have reached some unnecessary and damaging conclusions.
While the Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance applauds Hepburn's efforts in the Rural Hepburn Strategy to protect agricultural land from further inappropriate development for so-called lifestyle blocks we assert that the town structure plans as drafted will thwart this intent to the detriment of both valuable farmland and the character and liveability of our shire's towns.
I want to start by acknowledging the sheer enormity of the work council staff have undertaken in the development of the draft structure plans for the entire shire.
After attending Tuesday (May 14) afternoon's meeting, I am still perplexed as to why the council has spent money on four consultants for over two years to come up with a solution that is not only basic and unimaginative but directly contradicts both the community feedback (via the consulting group of 21 residents and the community survey) and its own Agriculture Land Study and Rural Settlement Strategy.
