News
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Bin behaviour
Council will soon resume recycling bin inspections to check for contamination with checks being carried out in the morning before bin collections. The check involves…
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Deadly and Proud
With negotiations toward treaty underway, Victorians will now have the chance to explore stories of pride in Victoria’s rich heritage of Aboriginal cultures, resilience and…
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Open again!
Victoria’s five day ‘circuit breaker’ lockdown ended on Wednesday night and Yarra Ranges businesses wasted no time in throwing open their doors again after a…
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Reservoir clean up on the way
Pick up your gardening tools, it’s time for a working bee at Maroondah Reservoir. Community-minded locals are organising a series of working bees to clean…
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Injured cockatoo sighted again
Police are on the hunt for a person responsible for shooting a cockatoo with a bow and arrow in the Wandin area. A Sulphur-crested cockatoo…
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‘disturbing act of cruelty’
A Sulphur-crested cockatoo has been found in Wandin with an arrow protruding through its head. Police and government authorities are on the hunt for the…
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Volunteers helping cure grassfire risk
Victorians are being given the opportunity to become ‘citizen scientists’ and help provide CFA with critical information about the state’s fire risk. A new online…
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Seven Sisters Dreaming
Hearth Galleries forthcoming exhibition is opening soon. Napaljarri-Warnu Jukurrpa (Seven Sisters Dreaming) concerns a group of seven ancestral women being pursued by a cunning shape-shifter…
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Tourism turns to locals
With the news that international borders are likely to remain closed for the duration of the year, Yarra Ranges businesses and tourism operators will be…
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Study’s flammable finding
A peer-reviewed scientific review has found native forest logging makes forest more flammable and leads to elevated fire severity for several decades, whilst “mechanical thinning”…
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Celebrating female scientists
The peak organisation representing some 1000 professional and scientific forest land managers in Australia is urging women and girls to embrace the opportunities available in…
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Tough times return
Businesses across the Yarra Ranges have suffered a further blow as Victoria endures yet another round of stage four restrictions as part of a five-day…