HAMILTON Malayali Association celebrated their colourful ONAM function last Sunday at St. Mary MacKillop parish hall with a variety of traditional cultural programs and events.

ST MARY’S basketball club couldn’t fail in the Hamilton basketball Association women’s division one grand final on Wednesday night, as the club had two teams competing for the premiership: Orange and Black, with Orange winning 34-26.

FINDING foster carers has long been a challenge but in the last few years enquiries about foster care have plummeted, and have yet to recover post-COVID.

HOUSING and the shortage of workers are the two targets called out by the Regional Australia Institute (RAI) as hampering the advancement of the regions, following the launch of the first progress report into the landmark Regionalisation Ambition in Canberra on Wednesday.

BARBER Boys White has convincingly defeated St Mary’s Orange, 50-32 to begin its reign as the kings of the Hamilton Basketball Association division one men’s competition.

A TAHARA farmer who narrowly escaped a prison sentence on animal cruelty charges relating to multiple deaths of Angus cattle on his property, instead copped a hefty fine of $52,000.

THE Hamilton Kangaroos Under 18.5’s team is set to take on top of the table South Warrnambool in a must-win preliminary final on Saturday morning in the Hampden Football Netball League at Reid Oval, Warrnambool.

Ideally situated in a quiet residential street within walking distance to HILAC, the showgrounds and Baimbridge College, this three-bedroom home is sure to impress.

SNAPCHAT messages were the ultimate undoing of a 41-year-old Hamilton woman presently held in the Warrnambool police cells for multiple drug trafficking offences committed whilst on bail for similar offences.

SOUTHERN Grampians Shire Council (SGSC) will extend the due date for the first instalment of the 2023/24 rate payment by two weeks after it became evident notices could not be sent out according to normal schedule.