HEYWOOD Pony Club’s second annual Stockman’s Challenge was a resounding success on the weekend, with more than double the entrants from last year’s competition.

THE sixth annual Penshurst Art and Photography Exhibition is fast approaching with local artists encouraged to enter their work and in the running for great prizes.

AROUND 70 people attended a community meeting on Tuesday night regarding the Ryan Corner Wind Farm.

BALMORAL is set to lose its NAB branch as the bank announced its planned closure in just over two months.

FAMILY fun is coming to Hamilton with a carnival at the showgrounds this weekend.

LOCAL cyclists tested their skills at the Australian Cycling Road National Championships (ACNC) at Ballarat on the weekend with mixed success.

A HOTEL quarantine worker has tested positive to COVID-19 in Melbourne just days after another quarantine worker inside the Grand Hyatt Hotel contracted the UK strain of the virus.

MANY local mothers are forced to breastfeed their children in public bathrooms due to the lack of baby care rooms or safe spaces available in the Southern Grampians Shire.

THE State Government has announced a shortened duck hunting season, sparking outrage from all sides of the table.

GLENTHOMPSON-DUNKELD has confirmed its senior netball coaching roles for the 2021 Mininera and District Netball Association season with Emma Sommerville and Jo Amott again taking on the role as co-coaches.