YUMBAH is looking at ways to make the Dutton Way abalone farm a viable proposition, saying it won’t give up hope on the site until all options are exhausted.While the company will not appeal December’s Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal decision rejecting a planning permit for the $60 million farm (the deadline for that expired […]

IF YOU see a “couch on wheels” or two shuttling around Portland give them a wave – they are part of the new Cycling Without Age program.Two trishaws – officially known as Triobikes – arrived recently and are being ridden by volunteers or volunteers-in-training who want to share the joy of getting outdoors, visiting nice […]

THE fate of the proposed Cape Bridgewater resort will be decided over the winter, after the government panel hearing into the $85 million project was yesterday delayed for two months.Planning Panels Victoria’s Priority Projects Standing Advisory Committee held a directions (preliminary) hearing by video conference yesterday where the terms for the full hearing were agreed.The […]

THE sixth annual Penshurst Art and Photography Exhibition is fast approaching with local artists encouraged to enter their work and in the running for great prizes.

AROUND 70 people attended a community meeting on Tuesday night regarding the Ryan Corner Wind Farm.

BALMORAL is set to lose its NAB branch as the bank announced its planned closure in just over two months.

FAMILY fun is coming to Hamilton with a carnival at the showgrounds this weekend.

A HOTEL quarantine worker has tested positive to COVID-19 in Melbourne just days after another quarantine worker inside the Grand Hyatt Hotel contracted the UK strain of the virus.

MANY local mothers are forced to breastfeed their children in public bathrooms due to the lack of baby care rooms or safe spaces available in the Southern Grampians Shire.

THE State Government has announced a shortened duck hunting season, sparking outrage from all sides of the table.