Water authority fined over plant construction
The Environment Protection Authority (EPA) has fined the Barwon Region Water Authority for the illegal construction of a water treatment plant.
View ArticleRural town demands phone tower before bushfire season
Residents in South West Victoria are increasing the pressure on Telstra and the Federal Government to increase mobile reception ahead of the bushfire season.
View ArticleEmergency warning downgraded for Ricketts Marsh
The Country Fire Authority (CFA) has downgraded an emergency warning for Ricketts Marsh near Birregurra, south-west of Melbourne, to a watch and act alert.
View ArticleAngus producer optimistic about the industry
Despite a tough past year with rising costs and falling cattle prices, angus breeder Tim Farquharson, from Birregurra in south-west Victoria, says he's optimistic about the industry's future. Read more
View ArticleVictorian farmer optimistic about cattle industry
It's been a tough year for beef producers.
View ArticleBlaze sparks $750K damage to shed, equipment
A fire at a tree lopping service in Birregurra, east of Colac, has caused $750,000 damage to a shed and equipment.
View ArticleRokewood joins list of priority areas for mobile phone blackspot funds
Rokewood residents say they are pleased to have been included in a list of priority areas for mobile phone blackspot funding by their local federal Member.
View ArticleMan dies in road crash near Colac
A man has died after a car crash at Birregurra, near Colac in western Victoria, yesterday.
View ArticleBirregurra quarry project pits farmers against earthmoving company
A battle brews between a group of Victorian sheep farmers and an earth-moving company from Queensland over plans to build a quarry on a plot of agricultural land.
View ArticlePlanning Minister to decide on proposed Birregurra quarry
The Victorian Planning Minister has intervened in a conflict involving a quarry proposed for an agricultural area in south-west Victoria.
View ArticleVictorian travel agent stole more than $270,000 from customers
A travel agent prepared fake itineraries and asked clients if they were looking forward to their trips, despite knowing he stolen their holiday savings, a Victorian court has heard.
View ArticleBirregurra quarry approved after dispute
A quarry at the heart of a long-running dispute between landholders and a Queensland earthmoving company is approved in south-west Victoria.
View ArticleFamily of murdered Aussie surfer Sean McKinnon 'happy' with NZ court verdict
The family of murdered Australian surfer Sean McKinnon say they're satisfied with the 15-year non-parole jail sentence handed to his killer.
View Article'Just want to get our kids home': Victorian families plea for exemptions for...
The parents of 10 Victorian teenagers boarding at Yanco Agricultural High School near Leeton in New South Wales are appealing to the state government for an exemption to allow their children to...
View ArticleTeens stuck in cross-border conundrum as parents fret at home
Victorian parents are pleading with authorities to let them bring their children home from an interstate boarding school, to quarantine on-farm rather than in city hotel where there is a greater chance...
View ArticleFarmer versus Falls as landowner voices concerns about three-day festival’s...
The annual music festival, which takes place in late December, has left its former home in Lorne but a property owner near its proposed new site says his farming operations will suffer if Colac Otway...
View ArticleMusic to punters’ ears as iconic three-day festival’s return to Victoria...
Falls Festival will return to the state in December with a line-up that includes Arctic Monkeys and Lil Nas X after Colac Otway Shire granted organisers a two-year permit that will give the event a new...
View Article'A restaurant is frivolous': The country fine diners looking to mean more to...
Fine-dining restaurants are increasingly cropping up in regional Australia. The knock-on effects are reshaping towns and communities.
View ArticleRegional Restaurants: Fine dining restaurants offer opportunities for local...
Some of the country’s best restaurants are in regional Australia, turning quiet country towns into foodie destinations and offering new opportunities for local producers.
View ArticleThe 'rare' friendship between a First Nations person and a white colonist
In the late 1800s, an extraordinary warrior named Wombeetch Puyuun refused to be moved from his ancestral lands. A white colonist became his firm friend and an early advocate for Indigenous culture....
View ArticleJudith signed up for a water-saving experiment that is saving her town threefold
Judith Goddard is one of hundreds of residents in the small Victorian town of Birregurra who are saving water and money thanks to the Living Laboratory run by Barwon Water.
View ArticleThis country preschool has raised more than $100,000 thanks to some cow pats
Locked in a pen with white paint under her feet, Hermione the cow paces and grazes while all eyes are focused on the money-maker: her derrière.
View ArticleEli the elephant was lost at the Birregurra Railway Station. Can you help...
Eli was lost at the Birregurra railway station. Now a community is helping look for this little brown elephant.
View ArticleMP demands mobile phone towers in bushfire zones
The federal Member for Corangamite is campaigning for Telstra to install mobile phone towers in high bushfire risk areas.
View ArticleAustralian nun on path to sainthood
A Victorian nun, Mary Glowrey is to be declared a Servant of God, the first stage on the way to potentially becoming a saint.
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