A SHIFT online didn’t hinder enthusiasm for United Way Glenelg’s second annual live crowd fundraiser on Thursday with a larger audience and more money raised than 2019. An impressive $45,800 was pledged by the Shark Pitch audience, which peaked at more than 170 registered online participants, although co-organiser Nicole Carr from United Way Glenelg said […]

THE busy rose season continues for Treloar Roses after an unprecedented year for sales of bare root roses and potted roses. It was a sell-out bare root rose season for the organisation after the coronavirus pandemic has encouraged people to invest in their gardens. Within months of the sales going online Treloar Roses were sold […]

FOLLOWING the devastating bushfires of 2019, CFA members and volunteers are becoming concerned about the potential problems posed by COVID-19 and a CFA restructure before the upcoming fire season.

THE State Government is facing pressure to continue to ease restrictions in regional Victoria.

NEW Year’s Eve celebrations will look a little different this year for many Year 12 students, with VTAC confirming the 2020 cohort would receive its ATAR results on December 30.

A GROUP of locals is taking up the challenge of raising much needed funds and awareness for Parkinson’s disease.

NIKKI Edwards never thought she would have the courage to take on a management position or lead a board of directors. But the Portland woman has managed to do both of those things since graduating from the Leadership Great South Coast (LGSC) program last year. She was one of several participants who joined the part-time […]

HOLIDAY accommodation providers reported mixed occupancy levels over the past two weeks of school holidays while regional Victorians got used to the latest COVID-19 restriction levels. “It’s not so much like a ghost town anymore, which is good: that has unfortunately been out of everyone’s control,” Glenn Berry from Dutton Way holiday park Holiday Lifestyle […]

IT was a “quiet and solemn” affair at the Hamilton Police Station as local police officers commemorated the lives of their colleagues on National Police Remembrance Day.

FARMERS across the Southern Grampians Shire are campaigning for a “fairer rates system” under the shire’s new council.