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Some restrictions ease for unvaccinated Victorians

Mount Evelyn residents will be able to enjoy some new freedoms under eased Covid-19 restrictions. New pandemic orders under the Public Health and Wellbeing...

Kokoda trek to be awarded to one lucky student

The Cowey-Selman Kokoda Award is returning for 2022 to give a Yarra Ranges Year 11 student the opportunity to win a fully funded scholarship...

Yarra Ranges Council Fire Slash Program continues

Yarra Ranges Council and contractors are cutting roadside grass to cut back winter growth, as part of its annual Fire Slash program. The program, which...

Uprooted trees provide habitat for fish

Yarra Ranges Council has joined Bushfire Recovery Victoria and Victorian Fisheries to provide tree stumps and root balls from fallen storm trees to create...

Protesting for the rights of refugees

On international human rights day, grandmothers and fathers from all over the Yarra Ranges gathered at the office of Tony Smith in Chirnside Park...

Logs ablaze in Montrose fire

Fire fighters were called to the first major grass fire of the season on Monday 13 December with multiple crews battling the blaze in...

Where to spot Santa when he comes to town

Montrose Christmas Eve in Montrose wouldn't be the same without the sound of Santa coming on the back of the truck. This year won't be...

The State Government forms the first landscape conservation area

Some 3,000 hectares of biodiversity rich land and water frontages throughout the Yarra Ranges and Cardinia Shire will be preserved under a new ten...

Rotary spreads Christmas cheer to those in need

Businesses from all over the shire and from Mount Evelyn have been helping collect donations of toys for families that may have gone without....

On a brighter note

The lights sparkled, the tinsel threw golden reflections around the room. Ornaments glittered and swung delicately on the many, forest green branches. Chirpy snowmen...

Christmas trail brings joy

When it looked as though Mount Evelyn’s Discovery Church wouldn’t be able to host its carols in person, an idea sprouted to get people...

Volunteer firefighters address the impacts of climate change

“Weather conditions that drove the Black Summer fires will be FOUR TIMES more likely under forecast levels of global warming – that’s what we...

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Seconds hold firm, taking 95 run win against Croydon Ranges

Stifling conditions for cricketers across the weekend as temperatures soared into the high 30s and it resulted in a mixed bag of results for...