Environment

Beyond Climate Grief

Castlemaine's School Strike 4 Climate student climate change activists feature in new book Beyond Climate Grief by former ABC Catalyst journalist Dr Jonica Newby.Some...

When the river runs dry

Last year's mass fish kill in the Darling River system moved plenty of people to tears, but few were as moved to...

Platypus conservancy calls Campbells Creek home

Since shifting from East Gippsland to Campbells Creek about three months ago, the nation's Australian Platypus Conservancy has taken to its new...

Solar farm hearing: Local farmers speak up

Baringhup farmers have told a state planning panel the site proposed for the Baringhup solar farm is strategically valuable agricultural land that's...

Council vote for clean energy deal

Mount Alexander Shire Council has pitched its support squarely behind a significant move toward buying 100 per cent renewable energy as part...

Broiler breakthrough

After years of bitter dispute it appears the long running battle over intensive chicken broiler farms proposed for Baringhup may finally...

Locals moved to help save the Darling

A Maldon father-son team are headed to the Darling River to make a documentary film highlighting the environmental crisis impacting the iconic...
Stuart Winser from the Castlemaine Library with Jake the Olive Python and Adrian Black from Wildlife Gone Walkabout at the Castlemaine Library.

Close encounter!

Families got the chance to meet creatures both cute and curious in a close-up encounter with Australian wildlife from Wildlife Gone...

Upgrade pre-empts severe season

With a severe fire season forecast, the state's Minister for Energy, Environment and Climate Change has visited Mount Tarrengower to check progress on the...
School wins solar system

Solar win for CSC

Castlemaine Secondary College (CSC) has won a fully installed 20.625kW solar system worth more than $26,000 as the Victorian winner of Origin Energy's Solar...
Maldon's Bev Phillips with one of the town's pre-European living treasures - a Eucalyptus melliodora, or yellow box, estimated to be 530 years old.

Living treasures

At a carefully estimated 530 years of age the mighty yellow box tree standing at Maldon's Bill Woodfull Reserve was there well before Captain...

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