A BALLARAT family has a unique story from their Port Fairy holiday after becoming trapped on Griffiths Island due to the wild weather on Sunday.

THE long-awaited official opening of the Hamilton Botanic Gardens aviary took place on Thursday morning with many excited onlookers.

AUTUMN means cooler weather and the opportunity for fire reduction burns and CFA District 5 leaders are actively working to ensure these are completed safely as restrictions ease.

COLERAINE’S landscape has been brightened up by 15 animal figurines that can be spotted down the main street and all around the town.

A HAMILTON man who threatened to kill his wife and children so police would shoot him has been jailed for two weeks.

FINDING a house builder is not easy at present and the numbers well and truly confirm why – Glenelg Shire is well and truly in the middle of a building boom. Local builders are experiencing their busiest period for a decade, with the demand largely driven by new homes. Two sets of figures bear that […]

A LEADING blue whale researcher is delighted to have found 22 of the ocean’s giants in the region, up from just two sightings last year. Dr Peter Gill from The Blue Whale Study led an aerial survey of the continental shelf off south-west Victoria and south-east South Australia last week and said the results were […]

SPEEDING was again the number one issue on the region’s roads as tourists flocked to the south-west to celebrate Easter.

RUBBISH dumped in Mount Napier State Park recently has outraged locals.

MACARTHUR war veteran and Cockatoo Rise Retreat owner, Greg Carter, recently travelled to Sydney for the launch of a new book, Reflections on Vietnam, which features accounts of his personal experiences and stories from Vietnam, along with chapters about 11 other veterans.