THE Balmoral Field Days are on again and this year will be bigger and better to make up for the non-events of the last two years, due to COVID-19 restrictions.

AHEAD of Australia opening up its doors for international travel on Monday, preparations have begun for local businesses in the Southern Grampians region. Grampians Peaks Walking Company managing director, Adrian Manikas, welcomed the exciting news that would see more visitors on their multi-day camping and hiking excursions. “It has been a long hard slog for […]

BALMORAL K-12 Community College has welcomed back a familiar face for 2022, with a former student finding herself on staff after many other jobs and considerable overseas travel.

POLICE are investigating a brazen daylight firearm theft at a Strathdownie property, ahead of changes to firearms storage requirements. It is understood the owners left the property briefly on Thursday, 20 January and when they returned home, disturbed the offenders, shortly after 12 noon. Two male offenders fled the scene in a dark coloured Holden […]

TAHARA residents are counting their blessings after emergency services stopped an out-of-control grassfire that burned more than 380 hectares at the weekend.

AN EMPTY shell is all that remains of a Subaru Forester station wagon that was destroyed by fire, in the early hours of Monday morning.

PORT Fairy’s main centre will be abuzz with a reinvigorated street fair over the Labour Day long weekend in mid-March.

AN empty shell is all that remains of a Subaru Forester station wagon that was stolen from Kent Road, Hamilton, in the early hours of Monday morning, and then torched.

THE State Government is introducing legislation that, if passed, would have a fundamental effect on regional Victorian newspapers.

A CONFIDENTIAL report into Portland District Health has criticised the practice of using expensive locums instead of salaried staff at the hospital and recommends completely overhauling the way doctors are recruited here. After several specialists at the hospital, backed by local GPs, expressed their concerns with the PDH board and Health Department in the Observer […]