ONE of Australia’s best-known conservationists will be the headline guest at a special community forum to be held in Portland in February. Tim Flannery will be joined by Bureau of Meteorology senior climatologist Lynette Bettio to speak at the Local Action on Climate Change forum to be held at the Portland Arts Centre on February […]

THE Hamilton Pastoral and Agricultural Society (P&A) will receive a $70,000 funding boost from the Federal Government to ease financial pressure after it was forced to cancel its annual Sheepvention event. Wannon MP, Dan Tehan said Sheepvention was one of 378 agricultural shows around the country to receive funding under the $34 million Supporting Agricultural […]

A FRIENDLY and familiar face is always comforting, and there is no face more familiar than Jeff Waldron’s at Nigretta of Hamilton.

WANNON MP, Dan Tehan is the country’s new trade minister after prime minister, Scott Morrison announced a cabinet reshuffle last week.

VICTORIANS returning home from Sydney will have to spend Christmas and New Year in hotel quarantine, after the State Government closed the border in response to the northern beaches COVID-19 outbreak.

MANY Hamilton residents were left without water on Saturday afternoon, after a water main on Ballarat Road burst.

INCOMPLETE roadworks left the Glenthompson-Caramut Road unsealed and dangerous on Wednesday evening, covering several cars with layers of wet bitumen.

ELEVEN-YEAR-OLD Hamilton boy, Darcy Hetherton, has been commended and recognised by Australian prime minister, Scott Morrison, for his generous donations towards Western District Health Service (WDHS) throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.

HAMMO the gorilla appeared when Hamilton needed him most.

RSPCA Victoria has lost the contract to run Glenelg Shire pound services, which will bring to an end more than 14 years of running the Portland animal shelter. Councillors voted unanimously on Tuesday night not to accept a tender from the RSPCA to operate the pound service from the RSPCA-owned Darts Rd shelter, one which […]