POLICE are investigating the theft of 1100 Merino sheep from four separate properties across western Victoria, which were worth more than $255,000 and were reported stolen over the past five weeks.

MASKS are now back just in time for Christmas and have been mandated for everyone aged eight and over for all indoor non-domestic settings.

Fireworks are set to go off again at Melville Oval for this year’s New Year’s Eve celebrations.

AFTER a tumultuous year in and out of hospital, one Portland youngster will be spending her first holiday of the year at home. Three-year-old Annie Pender is set to spend Christmas in Portland tomorrow for the first time since she was diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia in November 2020. As the face of the Leukaemia […]

A LANDOWNER and two companies have been charged over the deaths of dozens of koalas at Cape Bridgewater. The Office of the Conservation Regulator, part of the Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, announced on Wednesday that 253 charges had been laid after an incident which saw 70 koalas either killed or humanely destroyed […]

VICTORIA’S population numbers have recorded a significant decline, and this has been attributed to the mismanagement of the COVID-19 pandemic by the State Government.

AFTER the success of the Coleraine Christmas Festival last Friday night, the evening took a dark turn when two of the 14 animal statues that line the main street were vandalised.

Argyle Shop on Gray Street has donated $3000 to the MRI for U&I Appeal - which has been raising funds for an MRI machine for The Hamilton Base Hospital.

AFTER months of preparation, Heywood’s Nicola Handreck has completed the Melbourne Marathon in memory of much-loved South West resident Narla Saunders. Narla passed away earlier this year after a lengthy battle with breast cancer and in her memory, Ms Handreck decided to run the marathon while raising money for the Breast Cancer Foundation in addition […]

RESIDENTS in the Grampians have won a battle against a State Government plan that proposed re-introducing dingoes into the Grampians (Gariwerd) National Park.