Solar savings
When Castlemaine Secondary College (CSC) won a 20.625kw full installed solar system valued at $26,000 from Origin Energy in 2018, the school made the...
It’s Show Time …
Castlemaine show gets cracking this evening with a street parade and wood chop part of the opening schedule - plus a fireworks display, weather...
Council vote paves way for permaculture farm
A council decision has paved the way for a new permaculture farm and associated new house to be established at Harcourt North.But it was...
KiT Van Unveiled
An innovative new mental health wellbeing initiative - the Keep in Touch (KiT) Van, co-designed with young people, is being rolling out across the...
A love of land and life
Over the past 50 years well known Castlemaine artist Brian Nunan has travelled the Australian outback on and off for months at a time.The...
Climate call loud at council meeting
Calls for greater action to address climate change were front and centre at this week's Mount Alexander Shire Council meeting.There was a packed public...
Downsizers forced out
Castlemaine residents hoping to retire and downsize are being forced to leave the community they love due to a lack of retirement living options...
Muckin’ about at Mucklefest
Historic Muckleford Railway Station sets the scene for this weekend's Mucklefest Vintage Machinery Rally.The annual festival has been running for over a decade now...
Tackling the … Shitbox Rally
How far can you go in a car worth under $1000?Quite a distance if seems - as one local family seems about to prove.Elphinstone...
Don’t seal our street: locals petition council
While railing against unsealed rural roads is a common complaint in many regional areas, plenty of residents in Castlemaine's unsealed Butterworth Street 'hood have...
On song
Regular customers at Harcourt's Goldfields Track Cafe often get more than a caffeine fix when they drop in for a coffee.Behind the coffee machine...
Decision a ‘cop out’?
Mount Alexander Shire Council has narrowly voted in favour of issuing planning approval for a controversial telecommunications tower to be installed at Wesley Hill,...
