HAMILTON Police have put the call out for motorists over the long weekend for the King’s Birthday to take extra care with reduced daylight and wintry conditions affecting visibility on our roads.

FOR once, Western Victoria MP Beverley McArthur is seemingly on the same side as the Victorian Government over duck shooting, following the closure of three wetlands to shooters in the Surf Coast Shire.

DISAFFECTED customers are united in frustration over a new self-serve fuel station in Tyers Street, Portland.

EPA Victoria has warned residents that illegal waste dumping is on the rise, and has encouraged responsibility from locals to keep an eye on where their skip bin loads of renovation waste and hard rubbish are going.

SOUTH West Coast MP Roma Britnell has launched a parliamentary petition opposing the proposed merging of South West Coast health services.

FROM 8:30am - 9:30am this Saturday and Sunday, the Hamilton and District Veteran Vintage and Classic Drivers Club (HDVVCDC) cars will be on display at the Hamilton Showgrounds.

HAMILTON is one of more than 1000 locations across the country that will be safer thanks to improved mobile network resilience funded through the Federal Government’s Mobile Network Hardening Program (MNHP).

A LOCAL pool operator and the Department of Education have been fined a total of $180,000 after the tragic drowning death of an eight-year-old boy at Port Fairy while on a school camp.

GRAY Street Primary School students have created a biodiversity garden after obtaining a Victorian Junior Landcare and Biodiversity Grant.

THERE is a new look on the corner of Lonsdale and Thompson Street, almost exactly two years after the existing BP service station site closed.