THE former Wesleyan Methodist Chapel in Hamilton – also known as ‘Eildon’- is about to notch up 160 years this Sunday, but the building does look substantially different from the day when its foundation stone was laid with ceremony at the site.

THE Portland Powerhouse Motor and Car Museum is back running after being knocked around by the January storm that left many Portland and district buildings in shambles. Monday will be the first open day for the museum after five months of cleaning up and repairing the damage caused by extensive flooding. Located at the bottom […]

FOR the Barrera family, Mother’s Day usually consists of homemade breakfast in bed, with plenty of crafts and baking with seven-year-old Amina, and this year will be no different.

AS we rapidly approach the first Federal Election since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, some might be wondering how this election day will differ from previous years.

THE State Government has announced new senior secondary school certificates combining VCE and VCAL to address the demand for jobs in trades, with $277.5 million in funding for what has been labelled the biggest reform to the system since the VCE’s inception.

THE Southern Grampians Shire Council Business Awards are back after a two-year hiatus, with local businesses encouraged to nominate for their chance to win the coveted Business of the Year award for 2022.

EMMA Watkins, better known as the recently retired yellow wiggle, has been the talk of the town this week, as news spread of her Tyrendarra wedding on Sunday. Though the couple live in Sydney, the groom, Oliver Brian, grew up in Woodford and has lots of family in the South West, and Longmeadow Estate was […]

WANNON Labor candidate, Gilbert Wilson has made a $2.2 million commitment to the Maroona-Portland Rail Line, in a pledge that matches the Federal Government's investment to fund the rails planning phase.

MOYNE Shire Council has moved closer to creating more space for housing settlements through rezoning farmland, in order to address the shortage of housing and affordability.

A PORTLAND sculptor’s tribute to ageing has taken out the People’s Choice Award at the Sculpture TRAILS exhibition. ‘Creases in Time’ is Rebecca Marriott’s interpretation of, as she puts it, “beauty in time-worn surfaces, finding strength in connection”. “What I stated to think about was the beauty that’s in aged things and in our culture […]