January 17, 2026
Food insecurity growing, census shows
GOVERNMENT-funded health and wellbeing organisation Healthy Loddon Campaspe has released a preliminary finding from its 2025 Active Living Census that highlights an increase in...
January 16, 2026
Homework club hits heights with High Commendation
A HOMEWORK club that humbly goes about its business at community hub The Old Church on the Hill in Harkness Street every Tuesday afternoon...
January 16, 2026
City takes back control of kinder enrolments
PARENTS and carers will be required to enrol their children for three and four-year-old kindergarten programs through the City of Greater Bendigo as of...
January 16, 2026
Showgrounds offer respite after no go declaration
AN Emergency Relief Centre was set up at the Bendigo Showgrounds in quickstep time last weekend in response to the "catastrophic conditions" and subsequent...
January 15, 2026
Sunday Swap Meet build-up takes huge human feat
IF you're a Bendigo-based car buff or collector of automotive miscellanea, you can't possibly go past this Sunday's 34th Centre State Swap Meet and...
January 15, 2026
Big Switch to signal final phase of Metro Tunnel integration
THE statewide weekend free-for-all-comers public transport scheme known as The Summer Start ends on the last day of this month to make way for...
January 14, 2026
2026 brings in increases to multiple support payments
OVER one million Australians receiving Youth Allowance, Austudy, ABSTUDY, the Youth Disability Support Pension and the Carer Allowance have benefited from an increase to...
January 14, 2026
Circus to thrill ’em all
A COMPACT, portable circus troupe established to tour regional and metro venues without the need for a Big Top will bump in and out...
January 13, 2026
Broad calls for transport app audit
NATIONALS Member for Northern Victoria Gaelle Broad has highlighted a foible in the Transport Victoria journey planner app that gives regional travellers a mere...
January 13, 2026
Bank stumps up millions for scholarship kitty
APPLICATIONS for Bendigo Bank's scholarship program are now open for the 2026 academic year. The program consists of more than 70 Community Bank scholarships supporting...
January 12, 2026
Ulumbarra to turn swampy for Shrek the Musical
A BELOVED Academy Award-winning animated fantasy comedy film released almost 25 years ago will spectacularly come to life on Ulumbarra's stage in the coming...
January 12, 2026
See the sights for free with a Bendigo Region Ambassador Pass
GREATER Bendigo and Loddon Shire residents looking to save money all year round will be pleased to know that they're eligible to become a...
January 11, 2026
Call for artist interest in stopgap View Street enterprise
ARTISTS are invited to submit an expression of interest for an opportunity to exhibit their work at businesses in the View Street arts precinct...
January 11, 2026
Local artist profile: Jess Chalmers
THIS week we chat with locally-raised singer and force of nature Jess Chalmers (who you may have caught at last month’s Rotary Carols). Her...
January 10, 2026
Financial firm backs young professionals
ACCOUNTING, taxation and investment specialist Strategem Financial Services has placed its support behind the region's up-and-coming business leaders by signing on as the new...
January 10, 2026
$4.2 million boon for Bendigo Health
BENDIGO Health will receive $3 million for new surgical equipment including a laparoscopy system as well as $1.2 million to upgrade its orthopedic and...
January 9, 2026
Don the tools to help clean up
GRASSROOTS networks, clubs, organisations and residents have the opportunity to lend a hand on the 36th Clean Up Australia Day on Sunday 1 March...
January 9, 2026
Solace proffered to Heathcote, Marong Solstice customers
THE City of Greater Bendigo has offered to help Solstice Energy customers in Heathcote and Marong transition from compressed natural gas following the announcement...
January 5, 2026
Classic Dumas adventure to play out at BTC’s Black Box Theatre
GOLDEN Square-headquartered Bendigo Theatre Company returns afresh for its first production of the new year with a pantomime-style performance of Alexandre Dumas's 1844 swashbuckling...
January 4, 2026
Local artist profile: Tara Flinn & Willow Delaney
THIS week we chat with Tara Flinn (founder) and Willow Delaney from local a cappella group the MaCapella Singers, a close-knit collective whose membership...
January 3, 2026
LEGO paradise (with coffee and cake) opens in CBD
KIDS and adults alike will be thrilled to find out that one of the most popular hobby-pastime products of all time – LEGO –...
January 3, 2026
Five things to do this summer that won’t break the bank
WITH Christmas and New Year behind us there's still a substantial stretch of summer to survive (and keep the kids occupied). Luckily, there's lots of...
January 2, 2026
Hospitality stalwart turned Be.Bendigo CEO: A+ for advocacy
BE.BENDIGO's Hayley Tibbett hasn't skipped a beat since her transition from board member to CEO last February. Ms Tibbett found herself in the role after...
January 2, 2026
Veteran journo turning heads in regional publishing game
NEWS industry veteran Chris Earl has certainly set tongues wagging since launching his free weekly newspaper the Loddon Herald in January 2021. A serial award...
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