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Three-year olds Sam, Matilda and Baily are learning through play. 54565 LEARN to draw like da Vinci, master a computer like Bill Gates, or decorate…

By Casey NeillYARRA Valley students fired up to learn fire fighting basics at a recent training course. Healesville, Upper Yarra, Monbulk, Upwey and Boronia Heights…

YARRA Ranges Council will spend $1.5million on fire preparations this season. Included in that budget will be the inspection of about 40,000 properties, issuing of…

You are more likely to survive a fire if you leave early. 54664 WAITING until there is a fire nearby or for advice from authorities…

CFA activities throughout Fire Action Week will be building up to a planning day around the state on Sunday 17 October. Planning day will be…

Captain Koala, seen here with Yarra Ranges mayor Len Cox, will be at the Community Safety Day to get the fire safe message out to…

By Kath GannawayPLANS are well underway for the second Marysville Marathon Festival. Local GP and marathon runner Dr Lachlan Fraser initiated the marathon last year…

AS FAMILIES prepare for the upcoming fire season, water tanks can help put out spot fires, ember attacks and shield people from radiant heat. Terry…

By Kath GannawayPLANS for a proposed walking track from Steels Creek to Yarra Glen will go back to the drawing board after a packed meeting…

By Kath GannawayHEALESVILLE will get a new ambulance station, and 24-hour coverage, if Labor wins the November election. As a damning Auditor-General’s report into ambulance…

OVER the comingmonths, as part of Operation Firesetter, police will patrol high-risk bushfire locations to deter and track downarsonists. An estimated 85 per cent of…

IT’S easy to forget how important it is to have a property clearly numbered. Having a house number clearly visible from the road can be…