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Some are cheering the extra income from a proposed renewable energy transmission line, while others are vowing to lock their gates against electricity provider Transgrid.

After a teen's death at a western Victorian burnout event, the rivalry of regulators competing to represent Australian motorsport, and its safety, has returned to the spotlight.

Pacific worker and champion shot putter Elie Enock hopes her place at next year's Paralympics in France can inspire other people living with disability to achieve their goals. 

Western Victoria's jagged Grampians mountains have long been a favoured destination for hikers and climbers, but they're also emerging as a must for a new type of fitness fanatic.

The Stawell Underground Physics Laboratory is about to become home to a "quantum refrigerator", in a first for physicists in the Southern Hemisphere.

Northern Grampians Mayor Kevin Erwin says it's been a "really tragic weekend" after the death of an 18-year-old spectator at a car event and a plane crash killed three people.

Specialist police are on their way out to remote Queensland and four aircraft have been grounded after three people died in a plane crash while fighting fires.

A spectator has died in western Victoria at a motoring event which promoted burnouts and drift cars.

The competition in Stawell is one of the few opportunities the first responders have to practice vital skills before a real emergency arises.

Landholders along the alignment of the Western Renewables Link have begun receiving compensation offers before the energy transmission project has been fully assessed or received approval to proceed.

A private company has almost finished moving 50,000 discarded gas cylinders from the site of Australia’s worst ever toxic waste dump near the Victorian and South Australian border. This week, the EPA held a meeting with locals informing them they had finished cleaning it up after nearly 3 years and $40 million.

International migration is crucial to the future of Australia. But as the Albanese government works to reform the migration system, the plan for beyond the big cities is unclear.

An Australian resident grappling with stage four cancer alone will finally be reunited with her husband after visa issues kept them apart for 15 months.

A frustrated resident says the "wheels are falling off' regional medical services, with a Grampians Health merger leaving sick locals feeling they have "nowhere to go".

Vanuatu workers are using their Pacific values as a way of giving back to their new home Stawell, in country Victoria.

From helping the elderly with their gardening to moving furniture, Pacific Islander workers are creating a sense of connection far from home in the regional Victorian town of Stawell.

From helping the elderly with their gardening to moving furniture, Pacific Islander workers are creating a sense of connection and camaraderie far from home in the regional Victorian town of Stawell. 

Back home in Vanuatu, it's expected for community members to lend a hand wherever it's needed in the village. In Stawell, when Junior Issachar and his friends are not working at the town's meatworks, they are out in the community visiting elderly residents and people living with disabilities, with one aim – to serve.

Teenagers Ryan Tarrant and Bella Pasquali have triumphed in the men's and women's Stawell Gift finals.

A schoolgirl says Stella Young's words remain her inspiration nearly a decade after the disability advocate's sudden death.

Stawell Secondary students learn dark matter theory in 2021

A pilot program that connects students with scientists, based in a small town at the cutting edge of the search for dark matter, is now a fully-fledged program across parts of western Victoria.

Doctors are worried about the future of a regional hospital and the health of its locals as contract disputes continue in regional Victoria.

Workforce shortages have been devastating the health industry, but this hospital is welcoming university nursing students to focus on retaining local healthcare workers.

A Victorian MP calls on the state government to intervene in contract negotiations between Grampians Health and a Stawell GP whose resignation has devastated residents.