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PROFESSOR Nancy Baxter is The University of Melbourne's Head of the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health. A clinical epidemiologist, general surgeon and health services researcher, she has been in the forefront of the fight against Covid. She chatted with Donna Kelly about the pandemic.

Regional and rural Victorian communities have a new Rainbow Ready Roadmap.

Macedon Ranges Shire Council will be holding a community talk and community round table event as part of National Reconciliation Week 2022, May 27-June 3.

Over the next few editions we are taking a look back at some of our favourite photos. And here's Ian Tinetti like you have never seen him before.

THE Spa Quilters hold an biannual show to showcase the work of its members and raise funds to make charity quilts.

SKEETA, the lovely 11-year-old foxy cross featured recently in The Local, has found her new forever home with Pam from Traralgon.

Catherine King has won the seat of Ballarat. The seat has 110,704 eligible voters and saw a turnout of 72.56 per cent with informal votes accounting for 5.07 per cent.

The planets are all making some big moves in this fortnight window. We see driven and determined Mars moving into its home sign of Aries on May 25th giving extra oomph and energy to the Aries part of your chart. Harmonious Venus also moves into a place of rulership in the sign of Taurus on the 29th and the Sun shifts into the sign of Gemini on May 22nd signalling birthday time for our Gemini friends!

Irrigators and service providers interested in finding out more about key factors influencing water availability in the connected southern basin, including water allocation processes, water trade, policy, and events, are encouraged to participate in Agriculture Victoria’s irrigation webinar sub-series.

The West End’s award-winning contemporary musical & Juliet will make its Australian premiere in Melbourne at the Regent Theatre in February next year.

The village of Mount Macedon has been announced a finalist in the prestigious 2022 Victorian Top Tourism Town Awards and needs your vote to win the crown!

The bid to save the critically endangered Orange-bellied Parrot has been boosted.

The state government is serving up more jobs supporting hospitality venues and tourism in regional Victoria.

The state government is supporting creatives and businesses to deliver more affordable and accessible workspaces, developing a stronger and more sustainable creative sector.

The state’s lamb producers are strengthening international exports to new and established markets while supporting jobs.

Regional Victorians can look forward to extra road lanes, a new rail bridge and more level crossings gone for good as work heats up on Victoria’s Big Build this winter.

Annually WAGs members hold their winter art show over the Queen's Birthday Weekend.

Macedon Ranges Shire residents affected by the June 2021 storms have until 31 May 2022 to lodge a claim for Disaster Recovery Allowance, and/or an Australian Government Disaster Recovery Payment (AGDRP).

The state government is boosting funding for Victorian schools to support kids with disability, to ensure they have the tools they need to learn and thrive in the classroom and in life.

Would you like to learn more about AgTech but don't know where to start? Register for one of Agriculture Victoria's Unpacking AgTech webinars to find out how.

After a few years absence, ‘shed’ meetings are returning to the Mallee. Agriculture Victoria, DELWP, LMW and Mallee CMA will present a range of topics to district irrigators.

Grants of up to $25,000 are now available to help reimburse primary producers for clean-up and recovery activities as a direct result of the Severe Weather event of 9 –11 June 2021.

Foxes and wild dogs are 'declared' established pest animals in Victoria.

A study is underway to determine whether harvest weed seed control (HWSC) systems which create chaff residues are promoting increased crop pest activity and associated crop damage in the southern cropping region.