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Australia’s oldest, largest and longest running queer film festival is now in full swing and runs through to this Sunday.

An anxious mother duck was reunited with her ducklings that had fallen into a storm drain, thanks to the good work of some firies who ducked out for the quick rescue operation last week.

Hemp is an often maligned and misunderstood crop. Although it has been used by civilisations for thousands of years, it became mixed up in the banning of cannabis by the Americans in the 1930s.

The Hepburn Shire Mayor, Cr Brian Hood, has thanked the community for their support of one another following the tragic event that led to the death of five people and significant injuries to others in Daylesford earlier this month.

The Victorian Electoral Commission (VEC) has declared Christine Walker as the successful candidate to fill Macedon Ranges Shire Council's extraordinary South Ward Councillor vacancy, following a countback held online on Monday.

In the Hepburn Shire's recent Transport Survey at least 75% of people who responded said their lives would be improved with access to better transport.

Sebastopol’s new skate parkcame to life this month as it hosted its first ever official skating competition, expected to be followed by many more into the future.

What does being outside mean to you? This will be one of the key questions to answer to help develop Ballarat’s Open Space Strategy 2024.

A significant milestone has been reached towards the development of the Continuous Voices Memorial – a place to acknowledge the truth, trauma and ongoing legacy suffered by victims of sexual abuse across the local region and the whole of Australia.

More than 16,400 kilometres have been ridden in Ballarat as part of the month long Biketober initiative, with 472 kilograms of carbon emissions eliminated from the city.  

Daylesford Primary School has been named among the winners in this year's Victorian Education Excellence Awards announced in recent days.

The City of Ballarat is helping residents clean up around their house and in their gardens this spring with Free Green Waste Week and Half Price Mattress Week.

Work on the new, multi-million-dollar Gisborne Ambulance Station is complete with paramedics now operating from the upgraded site.

Three local sports clubs are among others statewide that will share in more than $600,000 for their efforts in campaigning to eliminate road trauma in their communities.

Hey Glen, I have a batch of healthy young tomato seedlings, almost growing out of their pots. Now the weather has started to warm up, would it be safe to plant them out now? If not, then when? - David, Hepburn

G’day! I’m Colin. I’m a bloke in my prime at five-and-a-half years young.

So, the No's have it. Well it was an overwhelming No in terms of The Voice vote, and it (The Voice) is probably doomed to being kicked down the road like an unwanted can.

Since planting grapevines on an old potato farm in 1998, Passing Clouds has become a stalwart producer in the Macedon Ranges.

It’s a sterling Spring day, late October, as we set off to walk the nine kilometre Wombat Trail that sets out from Trentham’s pretty little Quarry Street Reserve.

It was a real shock to hear of the sudden death just last week of Serge Kislinsky. I hope you are not just reading it now in this column.

The Daylesford Community Brass Band, with musical director Mark Lyall, deputy music director Sue Morris and artistic director Jenny Jordan, will perform at Christ Church Daylesford on Saturday, November 25 at 2.30pm.

The Guildford Family Hotel loves November - and supporting Movember.

Daylesford RSL held a moving Remembrance Day service today, with two minutes' silence. One, at 11am, for those who lost their lives in World War I and one, just a little later, for those who lost their lives in last Sunday's terrible accident outside The Royal Hotel.

Final Edition is the creative practice of Craig Frankland: a teacher, designer and artist based on Dja Dja Wurrung land in Daylesford.