February 16, 2025
Local artist profile: Greg Penno
THIS week we chat with painter Greg Penno, who says after starting to paint in his late 60s, one of his first works was...
February 16, 2025
Interest being sought for disability committee
EXPRESSIONS of interest are open for community members who live with disability, care for someone who does, or who work with people living with...
February 15, 2025
Talent boost for Primary Care Centre
THE Bendigo Primary Care Centre (BPCC) in Arnold Street has welcomed seven new general practitioner registrars, bringing the total number of doctors on its...
February 15, 2025
Community grants of up to $10,000 on offer
THE City of Greater Bendigo has called for local groups to apply for as much as $10,000 as part of the medium grants category...
February 15, 2025
Artists with disability UNBOUND in new exhibition
UNBOUND - a showcase of works by artists with disability - has been launched by Member for Bendigo West Maree Edwards at Dudley House...
February 14, 2025
La Trobe signs MOU with fellow rural health educators
LA Trobe University has co-signed a new Memorandum of Understanding with Melbourne, Monash, and Deakin universities' University Departments of Rural Health (UDRH). Each university's UDRH...
February 14, 2025
Meet the team behind Municipal Baths site design
A GROUP of landscape architects, water engineers and visual media artists from property and infrastructure consulting firm Spiire has been revealed as the team...
February 13, 2025
Apprentice incentives hoped to heighten home builds
BUDDING tradies who take up apprenticeships in the residential housing or clean energy sectors will be eligible to receive up to $10,000 in incentive...
February 13, 2025
More funds for Victorian public schools
THE Federal Government has agreed to provide an additional 5 per cent of the Schooling Resource Standard (SRS) to Victorian public schools. The SRS is...
February 12, 2025
Iconic crooner, songstress tribute at The Capital
A SHOW paying homage to two of the most iconic performers of the late twentieth Century - Frank Sinatra and Barbra Streisand - is...
February 11, 2025
Ephemera overload at epic collectables fair
AN ephemera and collectables fair billed as the largest ever held indoors in Victoria will descend on the Bendigo Showgrounds' six-thousand-square-metre Exhibition Centre over...
February 10, 2025
Bank offers free Banking Safely Online classes to students
BENDIGO Bank will introduce its face-to-face Banking Safely Online program to secondary schools in an effort to help students identify and avoid scams, spot...
February 9, 2025
Local artist profile: Michael Watson
THIS week we chat with emerging Eaglehawk fine artist and teacher Michael Watson, who said completing more than 300 plein air works around Bendigo...
February 8, 2025
New airport commercial hub on its way
A NEW business park planned for Bendigo Airport has entered its expression of interest phase with businesses and developers from either Greater Bendigo or...
February 8, 2025
Trout cod reintroduced to Campaspe River
MORE than twenty-six thousand trout cod were recently released in the Campaspe River between Axedale and Rochester, marking their first appearance in the waterway...
February 7, 2025
All to play for in rejuvenated Sidney Myer Haven space
DONATIONS from the Kangaroo Flat Rotary Club, Federal Member for Bendigo Lisa Chesters and a grant from the City of Greater Bendigo have helped...
February 7, 2025
More homes for Bendigo’s most vulnerable
A FORMER motel in Golden Square has been converted into thirty-five new social housing properties. The development is part of a $16.6 million State Government...
February 7, 2025
Evergreen athlete leads local charge at Country Champs
BENDIGO track and field competitors turned in a fine series of performances at the recent 2025 Victorian Country Athletics Championships at La Birpa Athletics...
February 6, 2025
Goldfields on path to World Heritage Listing
DIGNITARIES representing all three levels of government were out in force at Central Deborah Goldmine last week to celebrate the announcement that the Victorian...
February 6, 2025
Troubled bridge over Bendigo Creek closing to vehicles
THE historic Booth Street Bridge, which crosses the Bendigo Creek in Golden Square and is one of six remaining Monier reinforced concrete arch bridges...
February 5, 2025
Top five online scams to avoid in 2025
BIG Four bank NAB has identified five online scams to look out for in 2025 as cyber criminals resort to increasingly sophisticated methods to...
February 5, 2025
Fundraising plea to find cure for T1D
A CHARITY walk around Lake Weeroona will raise awareness and vital funds to support research into a cure for type 1 diabetes (T1D) on...
February 4, 2025
Big brands at great prices at upcoming pop-up market
A FREE budget-friendly market featuring rack upon rack of designer labels is coming to the Bendigo Exhibition Centre in North Bendigo on 8 February. As...
February 3, 2025
Bank-funded defibrillators saving lives
THE number of life-saving public-access automated external defibrillators (AEDs) purchased and installed by Bendigo Bank's Community Bank branches has just ticked over five hundred,...
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