Castlemaine - 3450

It took Casey many years to access a specialist for a debilitating and painful menstrual cycle. Now, a federally funded endometriosis and pelvic pain clinic is online but, in rural Victoria it's still difficult to access.

Some residents of this Victorian town want competition at the supermarket check-out, but one business owner is determined to fight the opening of a Woolworths store.

This young couple is learning from 90-year-old Alan how to run Melbourne's photo booths.

The historic town of Castlemaine has become known as the graffiti capital of Victoria with fences, shops and signs regularly tagged.

The historic town of Castlemaine has become known as the graffiti capital of Victoria with fences, shops and signs regularly tagged.

CCTV has captured hooded vandals tagging an outdoor store in the central Victorian town of Castlemaine.

Martin Kusseldorf and his two cats are searching for a piece of land to permanently park their tiny home.

Martin Klussendorf spent nine months building his tiny home. He has enough money to buy a plot of land, but most local laws across Australia won't allow him to set up permanently on it. He believes that should change.

Maggie and Mal Butcher spent years on the road after selling their house. But while they love their camper, ill health has slowed them down and they now live in a friend's backyard — which means facing the ire of local council.

Parent Leticia Hayes has a child entering Year 10 at Kyneton's Sacred Heart College next year and has called a change to the way the laptops are paid for "totally tone deaf".

Adam "Angel" Nieto has been living on the streets for 30 years. Now a run-in with the law has a social support service calling for better treatment of homeless people.

Pauline Boyle became an independent yarn dyer by accident. When she couldn't find the wool she wanted in craft stores, she thought she'd "just have a go" creating it herself.

When residents called on this Victorian council to keep providing in-home aged care services, it listened, despite recent federal reforms that have led other local governments to withdraw from the sector.

Retail fruit prices have barely changed in two decades, exports have dropped to about two per cent of the nation's crop and producers are fleeing the industry, new data from a NSW Farmers Association survey reveals.

Edmund Rice Community Services On Track program brought some teens from Melbourne's western suburbs to try a few mountain bike trails in the Walmer Forest Reserve in central Victoria.

Taking to mountain bike trails gives these teenage boys and their mentors a chance to share their love of riding, but also to chat "shoulder to shoulder".

A circus-based organisation in Castlemaine, Victoria, gets a boost in adult enrolments since the pandemic lockdowns.

Informal sporting activities such as circus are becoming more popular than traditional sports, but the reasons may surprise you.

The local commission has said it's considering creating a new league to run alongside the current Bendigo, Heathcote and Loddon Valley football and netball leagues.

Andrea Tindiani says ministerial intervention is his last hope as he faces the risk of being forced to leave his son when his bridging visa runs out at the end of the month.

Death cafes, death doulas, loss podcasts, and alternative funerals and memorials. There's new life in death planning and what we want to happen to our bodies.

Mount Alexander Shire will lobby the state government to voice its support for a ban on commercial roo shooting in the region.

Foodbank Australia is calling for more funding for school breakfast programs, with a growing number of families struggling to send children to school with full bellies.

As rents skyrocket and homelessness worsens in Victoria's Mount Alexander Shire, the council is removing permit requirements for some non-permanent dwellings.

Photographer Mitch Nivalis was drawn to the country footy club not by the sport, but by its inclusion of gender diverse people. With their help, the Mount Alexander Falcons are finding a bigger audience.