A NEW Electrocardiography (ECG) machine, valued at $8000, has been purchased with funds raised at the 2023 Cocktails at the Course event.

SQUIZZY Taylor and assorted other scoundrels will feature in an unusual theatre experience to be in staged in Portland next month.

FOUR men aged between 20 and 55 were arrested last week in Coleraine after a successful police raid uncovered more than a dozen illegal plants grown across several properties.

RENOWNED Hamilton artists, Jenni Mitchell and husband, Mervyn Hannan are pleased to be launching their first collaboratively authored book on Easter Saturday, March 30, between 3.30-5pm at Sterling Place, Dunkeld.

PORTLAND and district residents can keep an eye out their windows for emergency service volunteers who will be roaming the streets on Good Friday.

THE Dunkeld Lions Club in conjunction with the Bendigo Community Bank have partnered with the Australian Driving Institute to conduct a Youth Driver Awareness Program aimed at learner and probationary drivers.

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

STRONGER commodity prices and good seasonal conditions across much of the state through summer have seen a significant improvement in sentiment among Victorian farmers, a quarterly Confidence Survey has found.

BEES are essential to food production, pollinating a third of crops around the world besides giving us honey and beeswax.

DECKED out in orange tuille, head bands, sequins and hiviz were students celebrating Harmony week at Tarrington Lutheran School (TLS) on Thursday, which was the United Nations International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.