Restoring Buda’s brilliance
Jade Jungwirth
An architectural treasure housing the Leviny family's significant collection of works, Buda Historic Home and Garden requires significant maintenance and care to ensure...
Over eight million completed Census forms lodged and counting
As of midnight Wednesday night, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) had received more than eight million household Census forms - online and paper.
This means that...
Rail Safety Week 2026
The Rail Safety Week campaign runs between August 10-16 and is a reminder to all – road users, walkers, cyclists – that safety in...
Maayan Licht set to dazzle
The Castlemaine State Festival is counting down the days until its next highly anticipated fundraising event this Friday August 14.Imagine Farinelli meets Freddie Mercury....
Rodeo dream realised
Jade Jungwirth
Winning the 2026 Professional Bull Riders (PBR) Origin Series has been a wild ride for local cowboy Toby Collins.While the series decider in...
Tagging incidents on the rise
An increase in graffiti tagging across the township has led the Castlemaine Graffiti Busters to hold more 'busts'.Castlemaine Neighbourhood Watch and Castlemaine Graffiti Busters...
Forces of nature
Lisa Dennis
The filming of a new documentary, ‘Return of the Goddesses’ which documents the life's work of Bendigo sculptor Ruth Lyon has begun in...
Crafted with care
Jade Jungwirth
After the catastrophic fire that tore through Harcourt and its surrounds, a group of local crafters came together to make hand-knitted and crochet...
Travel through time with CSC
The curtain officially opens on Castlemaine Secondary College's highly anticipated 2026 school production 'A Wrinkle in Time' tonight.Local primary school students were treated to...
Joy abounds
The Castlemaine and Surrounds Women’s Shed (CSWS) is going from strength to strength and is very grateful for the generosity of so many supporters.There...
A beautiful evolution – Nalderun to build forever home in Chewton
Jade Jungwirth
Nalderun Education Aboriginal Corporation will receive $1.4 million through the Aboriginal Community Infrastructure Program to build Me-Mandook Galk Indigenous Education Place - creating...
Bushfire Inquiry tabled at parliament
The Victorian Legislative Council Environment and Planning Committee tabled its final report for the inquiry into the 2026 summer fires Victoria in parliament on...