FITNESS, endurance, memories and hope will be on display in Lancefield this weekend with the eighth staging of the Macedon Ranges Relay for Life.

IT was the Aussie lifestyle that drew James and Evelyn Nutkins to Australia three years ago.

THE historic Newham Mechanics Institute Hall was reopened after a $450,000 refurbishment was completed last week.

A 52-YEAR-OLD man and a toddler were flown to hospital in a critical condition after their car struck a tree in Monegeetta this morning.

A GISBORNE woman has been recognised with a Community Hero Award for saving a 14-year-old girl earlier this year.

KYNETON will come alive with animal competitions, arts and craft, local food and wine, music and rides when the Kyneton Agricultural Society hosts its 149th Grand Annual Show.

AUSTRALIANS are working a collective 2 billion hours of unpaid overtime a year, an Australia Institute poll has found.

MORE than 40 Macedon Ranges residents have revealed their brave and inspiring recoveries from a variety of setbacks.

WE will not be bowled over. This is the message of Sunbury Bowling Club as it becomes part of a beyondblue drive to knock out depression.

WE will not be bowled over. This is the message of Sunbury Bowling Club as it becomes part of a beyondblue drive to knock out depression.

FISH and chips and dim sims have been the culinary initiation into Australian life for exchange student Benedict Kunst.

DON and Judy Lang made the “tree change” from Williamstown to Newham in 2006 and have never looked back.

JACKSONS Creek has been given a tick of approval in the health stakes by Terry Lane, who is among a band of volunteers recording frog calls as part of an ongoing census at the creek.