A VICTORIA Valley farming family is calling on the community to oppose a plan to reintroduce dingoes into the Grampians National Park.

SHERRI Heffernan will have a Christmas to remember, after being drawn as the winner of the Southern Grampians Shire’s $5000 shop local competition.

FIRE is an important risk that forest industries seek to manage efficiently, and a new appointment will not just protect their assets in the south-west region, but may offer better responses to fires threatening farm land and towns as well.

HAMILTON businesses have reported a strong rebound in sales during December as the community buys local this Christmas.

AFTER a year like no other, Portland retailers are cashing in on plenty of Christmas cheer as locals decide to do their gift shopping close to home. And an influx of visitors has provided many retailers with a timely bonus, as they begin the recovery from the coronavirus pandemic restrictions. The timing couldn’t be better, […]

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.