Local News
03 Sep 10 | LUV-A-DUCK will continue to expand after Hindmarsh Shire Council approved a planning permit for an eighth duck breeding shed.
Chief executive Dean Miller said the application was appro
03 Sep 10 | WEST Wimmera Shire Mayor Ron Hawkins has thanked Ambulance Victoria volunteers and called on the service to appoint a third paramedic in a job-sharing capacity with Edenhope's two existing full-
03 Sep 10 | GREEN LAKE supporters have pleaded with GWMWater for a flow into the lake before the weekend.
Green Lake Community Action Group members want the flow to help alleviate the Wimmera Rive
03 Sep 10 | HINDMARSH Mayor Michael Gawith has urged leaders across the Wimmera to begin campaigning for rail duplication throughout the region.
Cr Gawith believes the region's next big project ha
03 Sep 10 | FORMER Horsham Mayor Bob Kirsopp has called for Horsham Rural City Council to let the community decide the future of Horsham Town Hall.
Mr Kirsopp wants council to halt the proposed re
03 Sep 10 | HORSHAM Rural City Council has urged people to beware of snakes after receiving reports of 10 sightings since wet weather began.
Environment and recreation manager Patrick Barrett said
03 Sep 10 | ONE of the Wimmera's female pioneers in truck driving was inducted into the Road Transport Hall of Fame in Alice Springs at the weekend.
Mavis Jarred, 85, entered the hall for her life-long
03 Sep 10 | DIMBOOLA will come alive with hot rod parts, vintage and veteran cars, motorbikes, antiques and collectables and many other attractions at the weekend when the town holds its first Swap Meet and Show
01 Sep 10 | AN angry Dimboola resident has called for the State Government to review the structure of local government in the Wimmera.
In a media release, Brian Hedt has called on Local Government
01 Sep 10 | HORSHAM Rural City Council will ask GWMWater to identify and remove redundant channel and reservoir protection overlays from properties in Horsham and Haven.
The Schedule Five Environm
01 Sep 10 | WEST Wimmera Shire Council has asked the Australian Electoral Commission to split the shire when it finalises its new boundary distribution on December 17.
Acting chief executive Colin
01 Sep 10 | HORSHAM electrical contractors Cec Hopper and Sons will be based in Anderson Street after the Victorian Civil and Administration Tribunal approved its relocation.
VCAT sat in Horsham in July
01 Sep 10 | WIMMERA Legacy volunteers will be out in force for Legacy Week.
The week-long event started on Sunday and continues until Saturday with volunteers working to raise money for the group which
01 Sep 10 | EDENHOPE resident Annette Jones has called for change to rural ambulance services.
The wife of one of two professional full-time paramedics in Edenhope, Mrs Jones says rural Victorian
01 Sep 10 | WIMMERA Development Association will meet councils and welfare agencies this month to formalise an action plan mooted at a regional housing forum last week.
The association headed the
01 Sep 10 | ILUKA has suspended all transport operations between its Echo mine at Nurrabiel and Douglas mine at Kanagulk after the second truck rollover in four weeks.
A male driver escaped seriou
30 Aug 10 | WIMMERA Irrigators Association has reduced the price tag on its water and resubmitted an application to sell entitlements to the Federal Government...
30 Aug 10 | THE National Trust of Victoria has urged Horsham Rural City Council to preserve Horsham Town Hall as one of the last surviving examples of art-deco architecture in Victoria...
30 Aug 10 | WARRACKNABEAL'S Scott Street businesses are still counting the full extent of damage from a violent hailstorm on August 18...
30 Aug 10 | WEST Wimmera Shire councillor Warren Wait called on Mayor Ron Hawkins at Thursday's council meeting to update the council about recent comments he made to the media about a proposed asylum seeker processing centre at Edenhope...
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