DAIRY farmers and industry members came together to celebrate and acknowledge their peers at the 2024 Great South West Dairy Awards.

PROFESSOR Richard Eckard is to deliver the prestigious Peter Schroder Memorial Lecture at Sheepvention on Monday, August 5.

THE esteemed annual Coleraine Art and Photography Show is on again with the official opening and gala awards presentation to kick off in the recently renovated Mechanics Hall on Friday, August 9, at 6.30pm.

A look back at previous editions of the paper 50 and 25 years ago

FIFTY years of service is a feat not many achieve.

FARMING is a business, and regardless of the business structure it is imperative that the business derives a profit to be sustainable.

LAST week, I joined well over 500 local government representatives in the seat of our nation’s government in Canberra. We travelled down with the very best of intentions, but I am afraid to say there was not much positive news to report. I made it a priority to speak to as many of my counterparts […]

RECENT confirmation of the purchase of more Western Victorian farmland by a subsisidiary of Gina Rinehart’s Hancock Prospecting is continuing to raise questions regarding her overall strategy in the district.

FOR decades the sport of bowls has been seen as an ‘old persons sport’, especially by those of us who grew up in the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s, but the sport is far from being that now with many of its best exponents far from retirement age.

BY the end of the month, 47 Victoria State Emergency Service (VICSES) - Road Crash Rescue (RCR) - accredited units, including the Grampians region, will have received state-of-the-art battery-powered hydraulic tools, continuing to revolutionise the way volunteers respond to emergencies.