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About 75 local jobs will be lost when the Bendigo Pasta Master plant is relocated to Mount Waverley late next year. American-based company General Mills announced it would move its local manufacturing arm, which has drawn the ire of Member for Bendigo East, Jacinta Allan, who said a long term empl..

A variety of automobile styles will come together this weekend for the third running of the Rod Stock and Custom Festival at the Prince of Wales Showgrounds. With millions of dollars worth of pre-1975 vehicles on display, this show is becoming one of the country’s largest regional motoring e..

CRICKET will return to the Queen Elizabeth Oval this weekend, despite concerns still existing about the height of the wicket. However, a match scheduled for next week has been moved. Noterday, www.bendigoweekly.com.au revealed the Bendigo District Cricket Association thought the newly-d..

PREPARATIONS for the annual lighting of the Downtown Bendigo Christmas Tree in Rosalind Park on Friday, December 2 are well under way with choirs practising, entertainers lined up and Santa organised. City of Greater Bendigo mayor Rod Fyffe said the lighting of the tree had become a speci..

TWO more multi-storey apartment developments have been lodged with the City of Greater Bendigo council as its medium-density residential policies gain momentum. The Bendigo Weekly can reveal plans for a $2 million, 29-apartment development at 443 High Street, Golden Square have been lodged w..

THIRTY ONE local passengers were stranded at Kyneton train station for more than three hours Sunday morning, when a Bendigo-bound train ran out of diesel. Driver error has been blamed for the embarrassing oversight. The 11.45 VLocity train from Southern Cross limped into Kyneton, but passenge..

BENDIGO is set to welcome its fourth VCE provider. Victory Christian College has applied to the City of Greater Bendigo council to use land it formerly owned at Wattle Street as a campus for Year 10, 11 and 12 students. The college is currently a Prep to Year 10 school, and recently buil..

Bendigo CIU detectives are investigating a suspicious fire which destroyed a Victoria Street property in Ironbark overnight. It is the second reported blaze at the brick veneer unit in the past week, after a fire broke out last Friday night. At approximately 3am..

Education Minister Martin Dixon officially opened the $22 million Eaglehawk Secondary College on Thursday morning. Mr Dixon unveiled a plaque and toured the school, which has been completely rebuilt as part of the Bendigo Education Plan “This is an exciting day for Bendigo studen..

Business plan needs government support The decision to put the responsibility for a Fortuna Villa business plan into the hands of a community group has been challenged by Member for Bendigo East, Jacinta Allan. “Why has the Liberal National Government required a volunteer community group..

THE Bendigo Weekly has won a series of awards at a statewide newspaper ceremony. The Weekly won three major awards at the Victorian Country Press Association’s annual ceremony last week. The Weekly’s coverage of the state election saw it win the Journalism Award in the largest-circu..

National Broadband Network will enhance library, says expert The Bendigo Library will be transformed by the National Broadband Network, a communications expert said yesterday. NBN guru Paul Budde, in Bendigo to talk up the early rollout of the new technology, said the NBN would help the Bendig..

If you’re new to Bendigo, don’t be alarmed when, on Saturday December 3, you see dozens of motorbikes, some a little over-decorated, heading off down the highway. It will be the now-famous Bendigo Toy Run, which heads off from Lansell Plaza Car Park at 8.30 am, trundles down into Castl..

IT is going to take more than $40 million to fix Bendigo’s damaged drainage network. A review of the city’s drains that began in September last year after a series of heavy storms, has uncovered at least 245 sites causing problems for locals, at a cost of more than $36 million. City ..

SUSTAINABILITY will be celebrated in style this weekend with a day of food, gardening and music. The Bendigo Sustainability Group will hold a Community Celebration Day at Strathdale’s Crook Street Park on Sunday, and there will be something for everyone. BSG president David Brownbill said ..

CUSTOMERS at Grill’d Bendigo are being given a tough choice this month, and it isn’t whether to add the famous Grill’d chips to their order. Grill’d Bendigo restaurant manager Rich Nash is inviting customers to participate in the Local Matters program – an..

CURRENT City of Greater Bendigo mayor Rod Fyffe may be popular with the community, but he is not as popular with his fellow councillors, it seems. The Bendigo Weekly can reveal Cr Fyffe was the first candidate to drop off the ballot during last week’s secret mayoral vote. North W..

EVERY move you make, the students of Peter Graham will be watching you. The Eaglehawk martial arts expert runs what he calls a “small but growing dojo”, or training centre, specialising in self-defence. “We don’t teach fitness, because it doesn’t matter how fit you ..

Bendigo Weekly Photographer, Drew Perryman shot this great video of some of Bendigo's extreme weather last week. ..

BENDIGO is unprepared for this year’s fire season, despite predictions it could be one of the region’s worst. Heavy rains have left most of Victoria lush, with spring growth flourishing around Central Victoria. Despite the obvious risk, and terrible recent history, locals have fai..