September 26, 2025
Help needed to realise mine icon’s tributary tome
GOLDEN Square author Desmond Beer is appealing for help from local businesses and individual benefactors with his industrious quest to print and distribute a...
September 25, 2025
Cycling, pedestrian network expands along Mundy Street
WORK has started to construct a $3.74 million protected shared user path along Mundy Street from Back Creek to McCrae Street, with the project...
September 25, 2025
City sures up industrial, preservable land
THE City of Greater Bendigo council has voted to adopt a group of strategy and planning revisions and amendments that will provide direction around...
September 25, 2025
Womens’ wellbeing key focus of new plan
WOMEN'S Health Loddon Mallee (WHLM), a local not-for-profit advocacy body for the health and wellbeing of women across the Loddon Mallee Region, has launched...
September 23, 2025
Free TAFE saves students $674 million
THE State Government has lauded the fact that its Free TAFE program has benefited more than 212,600 students in Victoria since it began in...
September 22, 2025
Bendigo Bank parlays tens of millions back to community
BENDIGO Bank has announced that its Community Bank model delivered a record investment for community strengthening projects over the past financial year. The $50.2 million...
September 22, 2025
Farmers’ rates reduction to lighten load
ELIGIBLE farming operations from around the state are expected to benefit from a forty per cent reduction on their property rates as part of...
September 21, 2025
Local artist profile: Clare Power
THIS week we chat with potter/ceramicist Clare Power, who said pottery became the perfect way for her to step away from her busy schedule,...
September 21, 2025
Volunteer grants bump up community groups
LOCAL community groups including Long Gully Neighbourhood Centre, Eaglehawk Community House, Bendigo Women's Football Club, Bendigo Theatre Company and Bendigo Blue Light Inc have...
September 21, 2025
Something for everyone at Seniors Festival
THE Greater Bendigo Seniors Festival - which runs from Sunday 5 October to Sunday 12 October - is almost upon us, with a wall-to-wall...
September 20, 2025
Put in your two cents on next Council budget
THE City of Greater Bendigo is inviting residents to complete a survey about what matters most to them regarding the City's 2026–2027 Budget. The budget...
September 20, 2025
Bendigo Kangan Institute names new CEO
BENDIGO Kangan Institute has announced the appointment of Laura Macpherson as its new Chief Executive Officer. Ms Macpherson formerly led TAFE Gippsland and is an...
September 20, 2025
YO Bendigo youth program HQ poised for move
THE City of Greater Bendigo's YO Bendigo youth program will relocate to new premises at 41 Mundy Street this month, a few doors down...
September 20, 2025
City seeks feedback on Draft Procurement Policy
THE City of Greater Bendigo has invited local residents to provide feedback on its new draft Procurement Policy, which outlines how it buys goods...
September 19, 2025
Revellers congregate for Bethlehem Diamond Jubilee
A WARM celebratory atmosphere greeted guests at Mercy Health Bethlehem Home for the Aged last week as staff members, residents, their families and community...
September 19, 2025
Gallery building a CURIOUS off-site program
THE first of a series of off-site events Bendigo Art Gallery will present while closed for an extended period for refurbishment, has been announced. CURIOSITY:...
September 18, 2025
Upgrade projects begin despite Comm Games scrapping
PROMISED upgrades to Bendigo Stadium and the Bendigo Showgrounds originally planned as part of the cancelled Regional Victoria 2026 Commonwealth Games have finally commenced. Bendigo...
September 17, 2025
Finance available for sports and rec facility upgrades
APPLICATIONS are open to Victorian councils plus Alpine Resorts Victoria (which manages the state's six alpine resorts) for the 2025-26 Local Sports Infrastructure Fund...
September 16, 2025
More Victorians to Reconnect after funding recommitment
THE State Government's Reconnect program, aimed at helping Victorians overcome barriers to education, training and employment, has been extended for another four years courtesy...
September 16, 2025
Summer-long LGBTIQA+ celebration unveiled
THE lineup for Victoria's Pride – a summer-long celebration of LGBTIQA+ communities – has been announced, which to the particular interest of local readers...
September 15, 2025
Looming School of Rock debut a family affair
REHEARSALS for Bendigo Theatre Company's blockbuster School of Rock The Musical are approaching their peak just days before the production's premiere on Thursday 18...
September 15, 2025
The beer drinkers have voted – Kaiju! takes home second title
THE curtain has been drawn on Bendigo on the Hop 2025 with the best of the bunch picked by punters in the Best Festival...
September 15, 2025
Christmas meal grants open to groups
ELIGIBLE local community groups have been invited by the City of Greater Bendigo to apply for a Community Festive Season Meals grant to help...
September 13, 2025
Pollies call for community-led fuel load reduction relief
MEMBER of the Victorian Legislative Council (Northern Victoria) Rikkie-Lee Tyrrell has called on the State Government to allow public access to state forests to...
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