With Lake Eppalock at 98.47 per cent earlier this week, Goulburn Murray Water upped the release of water to maximum in preparation for the heavy rains which swept across the region on Wednesday. “We started releasing water at a rate of 1000 megalitres a day this week, and..

Bendigo desperately needs a new courthouse. The current building, while beautiful, is unsuitable and unsafe for modern law.In the next installment of a series looking at all areas of law, MEGAN AUMAIR, a lawyer with Stuthridge Legal, looks at why the current courthouse is unsuitable for ..

BENDIGO’S outdated courthouse is causing delays of up to three years in processing major crimes. The Bendigo County Court hears serious indictable crimes, such as rape, burglary with a weapon and intentionally causing serious injury. Both Court Five, a modern courtroom in the Ol..

The City of Greater Bendigo council has knocked back the Bendigo Stadium’s application for a planning permit to house 30 more poker machines. Just like the councilblocked application for extra pokies, the permit will likely head to the Victorian Civil and Administrative T..

PLANS to turn old pubs into low-rent week-by-week accommodation are not going to help the urgent need for crisis accommodation, according to the head of a Bendigo support agency. “To create a concentration of crisis accommodation can be problematic,” Bendigo’s E..

An Arnold Street resident of 20 years has been “forced” into selling his house after learning the new $25million Bendigo Health accommodation complex would be built behind his property. With the complex due to begin construction later this year, the resident, who do..