AFTER a break over the festive season, football clubs around the region are returning to training, but at Hawkesdale-Macarthur they are returning to a new leader.

VICTORIA Police has formed a new unit dedicated to ensuring illegal firearms aren’t falling into the hands of criminals.

IT has now been a week since Victoria recorded its last locally acquired case of COVID-19, following the Black Rock cluster late last year.

HAMILTON’S Brown Bird Haus will reopen in its original store after moving efforts to the new location were hampered by last week’s storm.

OVER the past decade, 268 Victorian road fatalities involved occupants not wearing a seatbelt, with 67 per cent of those happening in regional Victoria.

FORMER Baimbridge College student, Brendon Paterson may have only just graduated year 12 last year, but the youngster is quite possibly the best long-distance runner our region has ever seen.

A THREE-HOUR trip was on the agenda for five local basketball teams, travelling to participate at Bendigo’s Champions League Basketball (CLB) 3X3 event on Saturday.

AFTER playing in the club’s first Hamilton and District Cricket Association A grade final last season, Pigeon Ponds has taken its play to the next level and currently sits on top of the ladder.

FROM this week, every Australian intending to travel into Victoria will need to apply for a permit under the State Government’s new traffic light system, including residents living in Victorian-South Australian cross-border communities.

IT has been a tough couple of years for Dunkeld’s Ryan Burgess who has been burdened by a tumour on his spine which forced him to step away from his sporting community and turned his world upside down.