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Recent rainfall events have left Central Catchment Management Authority with considerable work to do in assessing damage done to local waterways and the assets built to protect and enhance them.

Young readers in Macedon are set to benefit from an added $16,632 in funding for local libraries from the state's 2022-23 Premiers’ Reading Challenge Book Fund.

Daylesford's Kadota and the town's Lake House have both taken out two chef's hats accolades in the newly announced Age Good Food Guide Awards 2023.

It’s census time for Australian pollinators, but they need our help

Mates, Jarrod McQuade, John Crozier and Lucas Paladino are steeling themselves to part with their prized dreadlocks tomorrow in the name of mental health.

A Trentham restaurant has clinched this year's Service Excellence Award in the newly announced Age Good Food Guide Awards 2023.

Recent rain may have forced the horse competition to postpone, but this Saturday’s Kyneton show will still go on, organisers say.

Daylesford Lawn Tennis Club is running Welcome Week starting Thursday 24th November 2022. We welcome any new players, young and not so young, beginners and people who haven’t played for yonks. There is something for everyone with free tennis events running all week on Daylesford’s beautifully maintained grass courts. Come down and give tennis a go! It is a week of free smashing good fun!

Heavy rainfall over recent days has forced a disappointed Clunes and District Agricultural Society to cancel this weekend’s keenly anticipated Clunes Show.

The Maddicks family estate has been supporting the Daylesford Hospital since 1999 thanks to family friend and executor Tim Byrne, who recently donated $100k, bringing the total giving to an incredible $273k.

Whoever said doing good deeds feels like hard graft probably hasn’t met The Royal Daylesford Social Golf Crew.

Retiring Western Victoria MP Jaala Pulford has announced a $500,000 grant to the Central Victorian Goldfields World Heritage Masterplan that will support the development of a bid for the region to achieve a World Heritage listing.

Labor has committed to invest $71 million to completely change the way women’s health is treated in Victoria, if returned at this month's state poll.

Flood-affected farmers should report their losses and damages by calling 1800 226 226, Agriculture Victoria says.

Nine projects in the state electorate of Macedon have received grants from the state government's Living Local Fund

A working bee will be held at the Tylden Cemetery on Sunday, November 27 from 9am.

START worrying white males, your time is running out.

ChillOut is among three organisations to receive funding for 2023 from Victoria's Regional Events Fund.

Self-anointed King of The Suburban Jungle struts uninvited across my newly mown lawn...

MOST everyone has antiques of some kind in and around their home, and by antique I don’t mean beat-up old slobs like me.

My wise old grandfather once told this doting young six-year-old that he would rather put a sixpenny plant into a ten-shilling hole than a ten-shilling plant into a sixpenny hole.

WITH Halloween done and dusted for the year, the wigs, hats, and assortment of “scary” things have been popped into landfill to be marvelled at by the apes that take over the world in 200 years.

Home or gardenware gifts, ethically-produced meats, the freshest fruits and veggies, your pick of great coffee, a pot & parma and so much more. It’s time to remind ourselves of the value of buying local.