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The Olinda Pavillion is set to become home to solar panels after Yarra Ranges Council secured $250,000 through the state government’s Growing Suburbs Fund. Hilltop…

Four candidates have nominated for Liberal Party preselection for the Aston by-election, as the field of candidates to replace Alan Tudge narrows. Mr Tudge officially…

Brett Sansom was eager to celebrate his 16th birthday with his friends and family when he disembarked the bus at Beaconsfield Upper, preparing to celebrate…

The Kallista Mechanics Institute Hall has been left without running water for eight days, putting an already financially stretched management committee in an even tighter…

Heading south as a part of a task force of 22 fire trucks on Wednesday 16 February 1983, Jim Read was driving a C Line…

The mysterious disappearance and suspected murder of celebrity chef and founder of Olinda’s Cuckoo restaurant, Wilhelm ‘Willi’ Koeppen, has once again reached the national spotlight…

Two electric vehicle owners have taken the State Government to the High Court in an attempt to scrap a controversial electric vehicle tax introduced in…

Yarra Ranges councillors have voted unanimously to accept a planning application for the construction of a childcare centre in Monbulk. The application proposed the use…

Local residents should be aware of the risks of lithium-ion battery-powered batteries according to the RACV, after a rise in safety incidents in 2022 and…

When fire ripped through Cockatoo 40 years ago, quick-thinking kindergarten teachers opened their circular building to allow people refuge. About 200 residents, along with their…

Belgrave South resident Susan Heywood-Downard was at a meeting at what was then Dandenong Council on 16 February 1983 when she looked out of the…

Firefighters who paid the ultimate sacrifice protecting their communities during the horrific events of the Ash Wednesday bushfires 40 years ago have been honoured in…