AUSTRALIA’S wool fine wool growers are breathing easier, 12 months after the COVID-19 pandemic produced the sharpest percentage drop in the wool market in 17 years.

VACCINES have never been more topical thanks to the long-awaited rollout of the COVID-19 vaccination program across the country.

IT’S been a nerve-wracking experience trying to organise a gathering of rural women during these COVID-19 times, but good luck has prevailed and the Port Fairy Women on Farms Gathering (WOFG) has been labelled a huge success by attendees.

TOURISM in the Grampians has bounced back after the COVID-19 pandemic with the region currently experiencing some of the “highest levels of visitation on record”.

WESTERN District Health Service (WDHS) is set to begin vaccinating people over 50 in the coming days.

THE swathes of native bushland that were once a familiar sight locally might be mostly gone now, but a band of volunteers is doing their best to restore as much as they can – and that effort just got a bit easier thanks to a donation by a Bolwarra businessman. Steve Jordan, who runs South […]

THE familiar – and comforting to those stuck at sea – yellow colour of Coast Guard Portland’s vessel Helen Handbury is about to become but a memory. It will go up on to the Portland slipway in the next couple of weeks to undergo a major refurbishment, that demonstrates the wider local benefits of using […]

FOR the first time, the Australian Esports League (AEL) will host a free esports event in Hamilton on May 29 and 30 - the Greater Hamilton Esports Cup.

SIX weeks on from the start of the region’s COVID-19 vaccine rollout, almost one-eighth of all Southern Grampians residents have received their first dose from Western District Health Service (WDHS).

WESTERN Victoria MP, Bev McArthur has called on the environment minister, Lily D’Ambrosio to ensure the proposal to reintroduce dingoes into the Grampians was scrapped when the Greater Gariwerd Landscape Management Plan is ticked off later this year.