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Dan Murphy's application for a packaged liquor licence at 63 Central Springs Road, Daylesford has been granted.

A Christmas Eve Mass will be held at St Peter's Church, Daylesford on Saturday, December 24 from 8.30pm.

Council has welcomed the announcement that the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) and Transgrid are investigating alternative options for the transmission line route and terminal station siting planned for the Victoria to New South Wales Interconnector West (VNI West) project

MEMORIES of the June winter storm that cut a swathe through much of Hepburn Shire last year remain strongly etched in the mind’s eye of Trentham’s Charl Parris.

GOLD mining caused great harm to the mineral spring water supply in Hepburn Shire from late 1910. And now a growing number of residents in Daylesford and Hepburn Springs are anxious at the risk any new deep gold mining creates for this unique underground mineral water aquifer.

THEIR parents may have been okay with becoming senior citizens, but as they move beyond a certain age, today’s baby boomers and the first of Gen X behind them - not so much.

PREPARING to cycle 650 kilometres through the heat of a Cambodian January may not be everyone’s cup of tea.

DAYLESFORD teenager Sebastian Streat has come a long way since the day a paediatrician once identified him as unlikely to ever attend school, or to read or write.

KEEN-eyed readers of this paragon of print media that you hold in your hands at this moment might have noticed that its United States correspondent hasn’t been contributing much news over the past several months, and many, perhaps, have even asked themselves, “why?” Which could have led to the follow-up query: “who cares?”

Hepburn Shire Council has named local entrepreneurs and businesspeople Eddy and Malinka Comelli and David and Yuge Bromley as the successful bidders in the purchase of The Rex building in Vincent Street, Daylesford, following a public expression of interest process.

TRENTHAM Neighbourhood Centre is building a new community garden.

EVERYBODY has hit a pothole over the past few months as they continue to pop up, or down, all over the Central Highlands.

WORK has begun to create a significant new attraction that’s projected to bring tens of thousands more visitors to Daylesford each year.

When driving through Creswick on the main drag headed to Ballarat, it’s hard not to notice the abode of Dot and Laurie Porter.

Peeking out from behind the glare of a bright foreground star, astronomers have uncovered the most extraordinary example yet of a nearby galaxy with characteristics that are more like galaxies in the distant, early universe.

A report published by CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency, has detailed the successful trial of a new sensor-based platform with the potential to better support older Australians to live in their own home longer.

Scientists on CSIRO research vessel (RV) Investigator have made some exciting finds during recent voyages, including collecting a specimen of a new species of shark and discovering a shark graveyard in the deep ocean.

CSIRO, Australia's national science agency, is part of a nappy recycling trial announced last week to help address the 1.5 billion disposable nappies that end up in Australian landfill each year.

Australia can become a global superpower in solar PV energy generation and export, but it must develop its own fully integrated domestic solar supply chains to do so, according to a landmark new report.

It is believed the Subaru merged in front of a truck near O’Herns Road before the truck rammed into the back of the vehicle a number of times.

A passer-by discovered the crash about 6.30am last Saturday December 10, and immediately called emergency services.

Brimbank Crime investigation Unit and Melton Crime Investigation Unit detectives have charged three people in recent days following the alleged theft of a food delivery car in Kurunjang on Friday on 9 December.