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  • Keep the valley fruit fly-free

    Keep the valley fruit fly-free

     Yarra Valley residents with fruit trees should be on the lookout for the Queensland fruit fly (QFF) over spring, to help prevent its spread into…

  • More than a meal

    More than a meal

    Eight young volunteers living with a disability have been recognised in the Victorian Premier’s Volunteer Champions Awards. While in the program, the team would shop,…

  • Hear the history

    Hear the history

    The first European settler at Dixons Creek, John Dickson, is the subject of a Yarra Glen and District Historical Society presentation. Local historian Irene Kearsley…

  • 40,000 breakfasts and counting

    40,000 breakfasts and counting

    Every Wednesday about 100 students at Healesville High start their day with a healthy breakfast, thanks to dedicated staff and volunteers. “The only cost to…

  • Guy offers support to Yarra Valley strawberry farmers

    Guy offers support to Yarra Valley strawberry farmers

    State Opposition Leader Matthew Guy offered his support to Yarra Valley strawberry farmers and pledged a bi-partisan approach to the crisis facing the industry. “I…

  • Two years closed

    Two years closed

    Badger Weir Picnic Ground is still closed awaiting repairs, two years after storms tore through the site. Eildon MP Cindy McLeish put forward fresh questions…

  • Valley strawberry growers brace for backlash

    Valley strawberry growers brace for backlash

    Strawberries are in the news for all the wrong reasons at the moment but there is a simple message from two of the Yarra Valley’s…

  • Cheers for solar savers

    Cheers for solar savers

    Healesville’s Four Pillars Distillery will become the first business to take advantage of the new Environmental Upgrade Agreement program from Yarra Ranges Council. “There are…

  • Cubby house connection

    Cubby house connection

    Yering Primary School students are enjoying their new cubby house, thanks to a blending of student manpower and expertise from the Yarra Glen and District…

  • Sea of red to launch over-50s festival

    Sea of red to launch over-50s festival

    Most over-50s will remember the Beatles song, Magical Mystery Tour, so it’s a fitting theme for the launch of this year’s Yarra Ranges Over Fifties…

  • The Round-up

    The Round-up

    Arrest over servo raid Police arrested a 27-year-old Cockatoo man over a break-in at a Woori Yallock petrol station. Yarra Ranges CIU detectives allege he…

  • A cut above

    A cut above

    Millgrove’s Brett Robin has 10 toes, and that’s an impressive feat considering he’s spent more than 13 years competitively chopping wood wearing Dunlop Volleys. What’s…

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