Horror period as more lives lost on roads in Victoria
In what Victoria Police have described as a horror period on Victorian roads, July has seen many fatal road accidents bringing the total lives...
Repurposing fallen trees for local schools
Healesville Primary School and Yarra Glen Primary School recently received a present from Treasuring Our Trees (TOT).
TOT has been building school and community projects...
Prepare to switch
Healesville Community Renewable Energy (HCoRE) is inviting locals to its free community event to help community members prepare for switching to an all-electric home.
The...
Dog owners of the Yarra Ranges have opportunity to speak up on new plan...
Yarra Ranges Council is calling on dog-owning residents of the region to help guide a 10-year People and Dogs in Parks Plan, which will...
Crackdown on the sale of illegal firewood
The Conservation Regulator and Parks Victoria have launched an operation to crack down on the illegal harvesting of firewood in Victoria’s national parks and...
Major IT outage strikes companies across country
A massive IT outage has hit major institutions across the nation including banks, media outlets and government services.
Crowd-sourced website Downdetector has listed Telstra, Microsoft,...
Yarra Ranges Council experiencing web outage
Yarra Ranges Council is currently experiencing a web outage due to an issue with its platform provider.
Residents are asked to please give Yarra Ranges...
Sports fields and ovals ready for weekend play
While a week of excess rain forced Yarra Ranges Council to close all sporting fields and ovals for training use, these grounds have been...
Yarra Valley got flooded
The SES Healesville Unit was busy with callouts for the rainy weather.
The unit had to respond to approximately 20 callouts from Tuesday 16...
Push to protect war memorials with greater penalties continues
Evelyn MP Bridget Vallence is continuing her push to implement stricter penalties upon people who desecrate war memorials following years of targeted attacks in...
Violence against paramedics and emergency call takers is unacceptable
Ambulance Victoria (AV) is urging Victorians to treat paramedics and call takers with respect when they see them at an emergency incident or in...
Gaming machines to be shut statewide between 4am and 10am from 30 August
The Victorian Government announced on Friday 12 July that from 30 August this year, it will be mandatory for the gaming machine areas of...
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Photography rules
"Today everything exists to end in a photograph,” Susan Sontag wrote in her 1977 book, On Photography.
Now this observation resonates more strongly than...
