7/10/2008 | V/LINE has rejected calls to control the number of passengers allowed on trains and says it is doing everything possible to cope with booming passenger numbers.
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7/10/2008 | CITY of Greater Bendigo Mayor Cr David Jones launched the 2008 Bendigo Victorian Seniors Festival yesterday.
7/10/2008 | ONE of regional Victoria's most important events on the farming calendar starts today with the opening of the 45th annual Elmore Field Days.
7/10/2008 | THE fallout from Saturday’s BMX brawl in Strathfieldsaye continued yesterday as differing accounts emerged of what took place.
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7/10/2008 | A STATE Government funding package of $39 million will provide breathing space for Bendigo Catholic schools, Catholic teachers say.
7/10/2008 | THE Australian Medical Association has weighed into the Victorian Government’s Your Hospitals report, released last week, which showed Bendigo hospital was struggling with a record influx of patients.
6/10/2008 | SEVEN people were arrested after an unruly mob turned on CFA volunteers at a weekend BMX event at Strathfieldsaye.
Police were forced to use capsicum spray after enraged BMX enthusiasts hurled bottles and assaulted CFA members called to douse a burning car at the Club Court Reserve just after 5pm on Saturday.
It is believed the car was deliberately set on fire to form a flaming stunt jump that was part of Bendigo Trailjam 2008.
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6/10/2008 | THE Otis Foundation hosted an open day at its Bendigo retreat properties yesterday as part of the organisation's fifth birthday celebrations.
Commemorations included a speech from founder Andrew Barling and a performance by the Women of Note choir, while the Strathfieldsaye Lions Club provided a sausage sizzle and other groups with a close relationship to the Otis Foundation - including Dragons Abreast, the Valkyrie Group and Landcare - hosted displays.
6/10/2008 | PRACTICAL measures for tackling climate change are high on the agenda at this week's Elmore Field Days.
Victoria's Department of Sustainability and Environment is hoping the popular event will be an ideal opportunity to outline ways up to 50,000 ordinary regional Victorian landowners can get involved in sustainability programs.
6/10/2008 | CITY of Greater Bendigo Council has commemorated well-known Strathfieldsaye locals, naming a new walking and cycling trail alongside Sheepwash Creek after the Coman family.
Mayor David Jones said the Coman Trail had come about after a request from Strathfieldsaye and District Community Enterprise.
6/10/2008 | SENIOR Citizens Week festivities kicked off with the opening of a new $800,000 aged care activities centre in Kangaroo Flat on the weekend.
The activity centre is behind the existing Kangaroo Flat Senior Citizens Centre in Lockwood Road and features spacious new activity rooms, kitchen facilities, dining room, new toilets, office and storage rooms, as well as an outdoor garden and courtyard.
6/10/2008 | MORE than 800 friends and family crowded into the Connect Church on Saturday to bid their own kind of farewell to Bendigo man John Parsons, who disappeared in Hawaii a month ago.
Despite almost three weeks of intense searching of rugged jungle on the Island of Oahu, no trace was found of the 77-year-old, who left for a four-hour hike on September 4.
4/10/2008 | LOCAL politicians and education administrators have moved to end uncertainty over the future of Bendigo’s new technical college when it becomes part of the state system
4/10/2008 | MUSTER BE THERE: Marnie Sterling and Maree Rosa looked a treat at the Deniliquin Ute Muster.
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4/10/2008 | MEMBER for Bendigo Steve Gibbons yesterday joined an elite group of five who have represented the seat for a decade. By 2010, he could stand alongside federation pioneer Sir John Quick as the longest-serving members for the federal seat.
4/10/2008 | A GOLF course resort planned for the Big Hill area is a step closer after developers this week applied to have land rezoned for the purpose.
4/10/2008 | MARYBOROUGH musician Graeme Coates was recently inducted into the American Traditional Country Music Hall of Fame, becoming the first Australian to receive the honour.
4/10/2008 | A LOCAL doctor who defrauded Medicare has been convicted on 59 counts of obtaining property by deception and fined more than $56,000.
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4/10/2008 | A REPORT issued yesterday revealed that a rapidly ageing national GP workforce could have even more dire consequences for central Victorians.
4/10/2008 | MORE than 60 skilled migrants and their families will be bussed to Bendigo today on a whistlestop tour of the city designed to highlight the benefits of working in Regional Victoria.
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