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The brain’s waste clearance system is impaired in people living with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) which can lead to various symptoms including brain fog, Griffith University researchers have discovered.

Victoria is Australia's school camps capital.

RSPCA Victoria is thrilled to continue offering its low-cost pet vaccination days, with upcoming clinics in:

Victorians are being urged to prepare for the upcoming surge in seasonal respiratory illnesses.

The state government has announced the opening of the next round for Pride Events and Festivals Fund (PEFF).

The state government is helping more people live closer to where they work, with new accommodation on the way in the Bellarine.

As part of the Words in Winter festival in Daylesford, Australian poets with a passion for the natural world are invited to enter the 2026 Venie Holmgren Environmental Poetry Prize, offering a $1000 major prize for unpublished work.

The Little Gallery in Trentham continues to celebrate visual artists of the Central Victorian region with a fresh rotation of new talent from emerging to established creators.

As a journalist, I love it when the Community Satisfaction Survey is released. It's the gift that keeps on giving, and as long as I have been editing The Local - Hepburn Shire Council has done pretty poorly.

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Many times, driving past the Daylesford Cemetery, I would sight a large marble tombstone on a grave.

Maryborough's Central Goldfields Art Gallery’s latest exhibition RAGGED & TAGGED & FLAGGED Caroline Chisholm, Domesticity and the Victorian Goldfields by Dr Flossie Peitsch is now open.

Gig guide with Darren Lowe

Well, good news, the slab is down and the walls are up. Nah, only joking, still nothing happening on our block.

Victoria’s Country Cob Bakery has won Australia’s Best Pie with its Malaysian prawn pie - a mix of coconut curry, spices and prawns tucked up in golden pastry.

Macedon MP Mary-Anne Thomas has announced the successful applicants in the latest round of the state government’s Sporting Club Grants Program.

Minister for First Peoples Ros Spence has announced funding for 13 organisations as part of the eighth round of the Aboriginal Community Infrastructure Program.

Victoria’s visitor economy is booming, generating record spending and supporting thousands of jobs across the state, according to results from Tourism Research Australia’s Domestic Tourism Statistics and International Visitor Survey.

Hepburn Shire Council will no longer look into the Daylesford-Hanging Rock Rail Trail project.

Clunes's Booktown's featured speaker for July is Sean Dooley, author of The Big Twitch.

The Victorian Electoral Commission has received an application from I’m Voting to Avoid the Fine for registration as a political party.

Words in Winter has appointed Aunty Alison McRae - a Dja Dja Wurrung, Gunditjmara and Yorta Yorta Elder and leader - as its inaugural Cultural Advisor.

Hepburn Shire Council's overall performance dropped by five points, from 46 in 2025 to 41 in 2026, in the 2026 Victorian Community Satisfaction Survey. Meanwhile, the average of small rural councils was 60, just over that of Victoria-wide councils at 57.

Hepburn Shire Council’s pools are nearing “end of life” but the council will now create a community panel to look into the future of providing aquatic resources – including natural waterways.