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Community and industry feedback is being invited on Victoria’s new Biosecurity Strategy to help strengthen the existing system against increased pest and disease risks.

A surge in garage fires across the state has Victorian fire services encouraging residents to clean up their garage and consider installing smoke alarms inside.

The Hepburn Shire Council is looking for community members to join its Heather Mutimer International Women's Day Advisory Committee.

As of 20 July, 13 sudden horse deaths have been confirmed on five Victorian properties with some of the deaths occurring several weeks ago.

Enter your artwork in the Art & Photography Competition to go in the running to win $1,700 in prizes with our new categories!

Hepburn shire locals feeling the chill are being encouraged to get along to a workshop to find out how to cut their heating bills by making your home more thermally efficient.

Two Grampians region environmental groups will share in funding to inspire young people to participate in volunteering.

The work of RoadSafe Central Highlands is about to be bolstered with the body among those set to enjoy a funding boost the Member for Macedon Mary-Anne Thomas says.

Hepburn Shire Council says it's continuing to invest in roads across the shire with a $500,000 road patching contract awarded at its Ordinary Meeting last week.

The newly constructed State Football Centre in Queens Park has been unveiled, ahead of it taking centre stage as one of the training facilities in Perth for the FIFA Women's World Cup 2023.

Federal transport minister, the member for Ballarat, Catherine King has travelled to Birmingham by train with the UK’s Secretary of State for Transport Mark Harper while gaining insights into high speed rail.

They're a fairly fiesty and active lot out Clunes' way ... and they plan to stay that way. The little goldfields town's local neighbourhood house, the local Attitude - Ageing Well in Clunes group, and the Central Highlands Rural Health have formed a pioneering partnership aimed at ensuring locals' more mature years are among the best they've ever had.

Fans of strings music will be well pleased to see that Ballarat-based Klemantyne Ensemble have a few public performances in the Daylesford-Ballarat region on their agenda.

The Macedon Ranges Shire Council is inviting community input in response to its draft Sponsorship Policy.

Local lovers of barque music are in for a treat in Daylesford this weekend.

The Hepburn Shire Council has free rapid antigen tests (RATs) available for the community and is making them freely available to collect.

Around 50 people came together last Tuesday at a special event to celebrate the renaming of Jim Crow Creek to Larni Barramal Yaluk at the picturesque creek bank at Franklinford

WHEN I first started turning out these rants 10 years ago, the best subject matter I could dream up was potholes, drivers and idiots.

I have run a couple of briefs, back on page 11 (of the latest hard copy edition of The Local) if you want a look, about a positive ageing expo and another program called Living and Ageing Well in Hepburn. As in Hepburn Shire.

Queensland-based Contra Guitar Duo – Hamish Strathdee and Emma-Shay Gallenti-Guilfoyle will close the Newstead Arts Hub winter program on Saturday, July 29.

Gardening was far from the minds of the early European settlers of this wide brown land. Survival would most likely be the word as they broke their backs clearing and working their plots for sustenance.

It's always a great meal at the Daylesford Bowling Club. It starts with a warm welcome as you walk in, sometimes from the manager Neil, or the bar staff, and the good vibes continue.

The Glenlyon Sports Club New Year’s Day raised $13,700 and the proceeds have now been distributed to community groups.

COMPLAINTS about in-home aged care provider, Benetas, continue to rise with concerns the organisation is sending out bills even when a service is not provided.