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  • Police investigating Clarkefield car fire

    Police investigating Clarkefield car fire

    Police are investigating after a car was found abandoned and burning on a roadside in Clarkefield during the early hours…

  • Kyneton twilight market fundraiser this Friday

    Kyneton twilight market fundraiser this Friday

    Get revved up for Kyneton High School’s Twilight Market and Show n Shine fundraiser this Friday. The event will be…

  • Legal action over creek

    Legal action over creek

    A group of landholders have threatened legal action over the discharge of Class B recycled water into Deep Creek in…

  • Brigade seeks new home

    Brigade seeks new home

    Could Riddells Creek Fire Brigade soon have its new, long-awaited, home at the south-west corner of Riddells Creek Recreation Reserve?…

  • Bridge closure disrupts

    Bridge closure disrupts

    Malmsbury’s Ross Road residents have been denied access over the street’s historic bluestone bridge until safety repairs are made. Many…

  • Moo-ving rescue

    Moo-ving rescue

    Firefighters helped to save a cow stuck in mud up to its neck in Kyneton on Thursday. Four CFA units…

  • Forced to flee: Afghani women make film in the ‘Maine

    Forced to flee: Afghani women make film in the ‘Maine

    Eve Lamb A group of young Afghani women who recently fled the oppressive rule of the Taliban have visited Castlemaine…

  • Energy park on hold

    Energy park on hold

    Macedon Ranges Sustainability Group has put its community energy park project on hold indefinitely after receiving confirmation from the state…

  • Blaze at Carlsruhe

    Blaze at Carlsruhe

    Fire tore through a two-storey mudbrick home at Carlsruhe early last Thursday morning. Brigades from across the district turned out…

  • Kyneton Tea of Earth entrepreneur hailed a local business hero

    Kyneton Tea of Earth entrepreneur hailed a local business hero

    Kyneton business owner Rebecca Moore says her local Australia Post team had been friendly faces during the pandemic when she…

  • Clubhouse condition critical

    Clubhouse condition critical

    Woodend golfers are urging action to bring their dilapidated clubhouse up to building code or for demolition to rebuild.Last year,…

  • Austin on the road to recovery

    Austin on the road to recovery

    Courageous Castlemaine youngster Austin Vearing has successfully conquered two rounds of surgery in the United States and is now on…