Deadly and Proud
With negotiations toward treaty underway, Victorians will now have the chance to explore stories of pride in Victoria’s rich heritage of Aboriginal cultures,...
Open again!
Victoria’s five day ‘circuit breaker’ lockdown ended on Wednesday night and Yarra Ranges businesses wasted no time in throwing open their doors again after...
Reservoir clean up on the way
Pick up your gardening tools, it’s time for a working bee at Maroondah Reservoir.
Community-minded locals are organising a series of working bees to clean...
Injured cockatoo sighted again
Police are on the hunt for a person responsible for shooting a cockatoo with a bow and arrow in the Wandin area.
A Sulphur-crested cockatoo...
‘disturbing act of cruelty’
A Sulphur-crested cockatoo has been found in Wandin with an arrow protruding through its head.
Police and government authorities are on the hunt for the...
Volunteers helping cure grassfire risk
Victorians are being given the opportunity to become ‘citizen scientists’ and help provide CFA with critical information about the state’s fire risk.
A...
Seven Sisters Dreaming
Hearth Galleries forthcoming exhibition is opening soon. Napaljarri-Warnu Jukurrpa (Seven Sisters Dreaming) concerns a group of seven ancestral women being pursued by a cunning...
Tourism turns to locals
With the news that international borders are likely to remain closed for the duration of the year, Yarra Ranges businesses and tourism operators will...
Study’s flammable finding
A peer-reviewed scientific review has found native forest logging makes forest more flammable and leads to elevated fire severity for several decades, whilst “mechanical...
Celebrating female scientists
The peak organisation representing some 1000 professional and scientific forest land managers in Australia is urging women and girls to embrace the opportunities...
Tough times return
Businesses across the Yarra Ranges have suffered a further blow as Victoria endures yet another round of stage four restrictions as part of a...
Grants help protect faunal emblems
Community groups in the Yarra Valley are taking action to protect two of Victoria’s faunal emblems – the Helmeted Honeyeater and the Leadbeater’s Possum...