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Daylesford Dialysis - delivering more than treatment

Lise Heymer is an experience designer who spent more than two decades creating digital experiences before turning her focus to physical places, with a single mission – helping people gain clarity before making significant decisions about place. Based in Coomoora, she recently founded Heymer Design Studio, a place-based design practice.

After she turned 90 last year, Eileen Quinlan decided it was time to move on her own terms – and chose Hepburn House. And she loves it.

Sports Central and FedUni WestVic Academy of Sport have launched the Central Highlands Coaches Collective.

When Komatsu’s Nigel Howard found out that his friend and mentor, forest industry icon Col McCulloch had been diagnosed with motor neurone disease, it didn’t take him long to realise that being frustrated couldn’t help. The best thing he could do was to get on his bike and do something useful.

The heritage-listed Media Arts Studio (Old Courthouse) at Federation University’s Arts Academy Ballarat is the setting for a Month of Sundays Season 2.

One of Australia's most respected and internationally acclaimed writers, Richard Flanagan will talk about his latest collection, Heresies, and his writing career with Astrid Edwards in Castlemaine next month.

After-Light, a dramatic prog-rock opera by composer/director Zac Vanstone and musical director Tom Foster is the Mount Players' third show for 2026.

No sooner has Hugh Jackman entertained us by reading a book to his sheep, than he pops up as Robin Hood. This is, however, no jolly romp for Robin, Friar Tuck and the Band of Merry Men versus the Sheriff of Nottingham Forest.

The inaugural Golden Wellness Festival is an immersive day, exploring ancient and modern wellbeing practices woven with today’s understanding of mind, body and spirit.

Bendigo will come alive with music, food, dance and culture when the inaugural Bendigo African Festival brings a free community celebration to Hargreaves Mall on Saturday, August 1 from 10am to 8pm.

A bracing wind whips around Sandra and Sue Morris as they introduce me to a few of the much-loved sheep on their family farm just outside Trentham.

A Pillar of Society One of seven children, Ernest Samuel Wall was born on July 27, 1879 to Samuel Wall and Elizabeth Ann Briggs.

Evolve Windows supply and install uPVC, aluminium and timber windows and doors - a one-stop shop for whatever windows clients need - for renovations and commercial projects across Woodend, the Macedon Ranges, Daylesford, Castlemaine, metro Melbourne and regional Victoria.

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There are people who can fall down a shithole and come up with a gold brick, folks who can never get out of the shit and some of the community who simply drift along through life not giving a shit.

Hello, I am Dash, a fun-loving puppy with a playful spirit and a heart full of love.

I was going to write about Hepburn Shire Council - but it appears there is not much council to write about just yet. Sure as eggs, something will happen on Monday, just after we go to press. I am guessing an administrator or two but what would I know? Watch this space.

Minister Vicki Ward and Lord Mayor Nicholas Reece has announced a $1 million Musical Theatre Development Fund to back the musical sector. 

Tunnelling is complete on the federal and state governments' North East Link – a major milestone for Victoria's biggest road project.

Environmental flows into Gunbower Forest over the coming months will finish what Mother Nature has started and help prepare key wetlands for likely dry times ahead.

Deputy Premier and Minister for Medical Research Ben Carroll has announced $3 million for 14 projects under the Victorian Medical Research Acceleration Fund (VMRAF).

Over 13,000 more Victorian students will get free, hands-on STEM learning.

330 schools across 344 campuses will share in more than $8 million to clear vegetation around buildings well ahead of the dangerous season.