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Leading mental health experts and groups have teamed up with the insurance industry to draw attention to a major drag on Australia’s productivity; mental ill-health.

More dentistry and oral health students living in and around Bendigo can now access the very best equipment and education closer to home – thanks to major facility upgrades at La Trobe University.

An unexpected guest has been found in a Melbourne motel room - and it wasn’t on the booking list. Agriculture Victoria is urging travellers to thoroughly check their luggage for unwanted stowaways after an Asian black-spined toad was recently discovered at a city motel.

More affordable housing in regional Victoria will make it easier for workers to live near their jobs while helping local businesses keep skilled staff in the industries that need them most.

Member for Ballarat Catherine King and Member for Ripon Martha Haylett have announced $600,000 in joint funding for Central Highlands Water’s Forest Hill Water Supply Connection project.

Campgrounds and hiking trails from the Alpine region to Central Victoria are being upgraded so visitors can experience the very best of Victoria’s great outdoors.

The Birrarung Riverfest is back this September school holidays, with over 60 events across 23 days, stretching along the entire Yarra, Birrarung River. 

Hepburn Shire Council has declared an intent to dispose of seven properties around the shire, with three suitable for affordable housing.

In the bar my mum used to work the smoke never shows on a ceiling that colour. decades cling to lungs like smouldering to glass. & still, i hear the men talking as if they can rewrite the prize horse with a pint, the mean bet that turned their futures to shadows, to ash.

Working from home will become a legal right.

I am a recent tree-changer from Melbourne and just wanted to say how much I enjoy having a paper to read.

Central Highlands Rural Health is not happy with me. Read their letter on page 10. The organisation has taken umbrage over the use of the word Ugly, as in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.

Cockadoodle doooo. I am Clucky, a young, handsome Wyandotte rooster looking for a home.

A Hepburn Shire Council decision to ask for community feedback on selling seven of its properties around the shire, three for affordable housing, has been overshadowed by a request that CEO Bradley Thomas also look into the possibility of selling Rea Lands Park in Raglan Street, Daylesford.

Grade five and six students from Newlyn and Hepburn primary schools took part in the Daylesford College-led, the Heart of the School Art Mural project last Wednesday at the Hepburn Primary School Campus.

Some people said that it would be magic if Daylesford got its cinema back. Now magic is being used to conjure up that vision.

Price guides for The Block homes have been revealed - $3 million to $3.3 million - for the luxury Raglan Street properties.

Hepburn Shire Council rates and valuation notices will shortly begin arriving in letterboxes and email inboxes across the shire.

I am a recent tree-changer from Melbourne and just wanted to say how much I enjoy having a paper to read.

I write in response to your recent articles on Home Care Packages, which unfairly characterised Central Highlands Rural Health (CHRH) and the care provided by our staff.

The Victoria Government Gazette of May 25, 1900 paved the way for a rifle club to be set up in Trentham. "The Lieutenant-Governor in Council, has by orders made on May 21, 1900, been pleased to approve the formation of a detachment of a rifle club in Trentham."

Trentham is the 2025 Victorian Top Tourism Town in the Tiny Tourism Town category - for its "charm, community spirit, and visitor appeal".

Rebecca Lister was born and raised in the mining town of Mount Isa in northwest Queensland. It was the boom years for mining and the town flourished both financially and culturally.