A PRESTIGIOUS national honour was awarded on Thursday to a well-known local community leader at the 2020-21 Australian Farmer of the Year Awards in Canberra.

SEVEN locals have been selected in the Victorian Pony Club team to compete at the Thoroughbred Industry Careers Pony Club Australia National Championships 2021.

HAMILTON faces its toughest test of the HFNL season today, welcoming Koroit to Melville Oval in a dangerous game for the home side.

THE Kangaroos are back at Melville Oval today against the third-placed Koroit in what is a big Hampden Football Netball League (HFNL) game for the home side.

THE prospect of community football and netball games this weekend has been boosted with crowds allowed back at games from Friday.

THE Hamilton Kangaroos will be without one of its most consistent performers for the remainder of the Hampden Football Netball League season, as Levi Dare and the club have agreed to go their separate ways.

A BRANXHOLME-WALLACEDALE senior footballer has been suspended for eight weeks after breaching the AFL Cyber Safety Policy.

SOUTH-WEST men have been encouraged to check up on their physical and mental health this week as part the of national ‘Men’s Health Week’ campaign.

SEVEN Hamilton State Emergency Services (SES) Unit members were deployed to Gippsland this week to assist with major storm and floods that temporarily crippled the area.

VICTORIA will ease further out of COVID-19 restrictions from 11.59pm tomorrow night.