Up to 700 participating Victorian and interstate emergency services members climbed the stairs of Crown Metropol in Melbourne earlier this month, to raise money and awareness for mental health and cancer research.
A father who suffered a cardiac arrest while driving home from work a few months ago has reunited with the emergency services responders who saved his life.
The Hepburn Shire Council says it's working to help local families with babies make the shift to using cloth nappies in order to help reduce waste to landfill.
Hepburn Shire Council says it's now offering free access to a circular economy platform called ASPIRE for all organisations and businesses with 20 employees or less.
In the last financial year, 165 kilometres of environmental weed control was carried out on approximately 2,500 km of Hepburn Shire-managed roadsides, the council is reporting.
Creswick is celebrating after its comparatively new home-grown folk music festival CresFest was announced as a finalist in the prestigious Australian Folk Music Awards.
Hepburn Shire residents who keep livestock are being urged to secure their place in the award-winning Healthy Landscapes 2023/2024 Holistic Grazing Course which begins Friday 15 September.
The state government says it's helping more casual and contract workers access sick and carer’s pay, increasing the number of jobs covered by the Victorian Sick Pay Guarantee and extending the pilot until March 2025.
Community Carbon is a new pilot project aimed at delivering local revegetation planting to generate carbon offsets while also providing environmental, social, and economic benefits to the local community. Local landholders and other residents are being invited to be involved.
More than 11,000 megalitres of water for the environment will flow out of Lake Eppalock this month, helping improve the health of the Campaspe River downstream, the North Central Catchment Management Authority says.
