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Maryborough has been trying to improve its high rates of illness and obesity.  But with a gym facing eviction for a liquor store, and a future without an outdoor pool, residents say they need help.

By itself, it's junk. Together, it tells a story of how things were done in broadcasting, education, and medicine.

Dja Dja Wurrung residents say thousands of women have used the birthing tree, which was nearly lost in a suspicious blaze.

There's concern the new coronavirus outbreak in Victoria will prompt grey nomads to again cancel their winter trips to NSW's Riverina.

Police say a man was stabbed three times during a weekend fight near Maryborough.

The Central Goldfields Shire says it will continue to support a push for the town of Talbot to be sewered, despite there being no money committed to the project.

When we speak of agricultural development in south-eastern Australia and how it was enabled, one of the most important expeditions in the white history of exploration is the third expedition of the New South Wales Surveyor-General Major Thomas Livingstone Mitchell in 1836.

A study for the Central Goldfields Shire has found the lack of a sewerage system in Talbot, near Maryborough, will stop the town from growing.

Flash flooding across Victoria after heavy rains has led to some timely rescues, but none more so than the help extended to a mob of sheep that found themselves caught on a narrow strip of land as water rushed past at Red Lion, near Talbot in central Victoria.

Maryborough police are appealing for witnesses to a two-car crash at Talbot yesterday afternoon.

The Central Goldfields Shire is promising to consider more last-resort bushfire shelters for towns in the area for this summer's fire season.

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The Hepburn Shire wants a guarantee from the Victorian Government that small towns between Ballarat and Maryborough will benefit from the return of passenger trains.

A small town community pitches in to help a winery bring in the harvest - twice.

The historic town hall in Talbot, south of Maryborough, will undergo restoration works.

The Mayor of the Central Goldfields Shire says a pamphlet claiming a Muslim centre will be built south of Maryborough is offensive and untrue.

Despite having been in practice for three decades, the uptake of rejuvenating damaged paddocks or grasslands with the direct seeding of native plants is still viewed by many as a small-time response.

A car roll-over on a mountain road near Talbot has claimed the life of a local man.

The weekday clearing sale is a staple of country life - and avoids the invasion of city bargain hunters and tyre-kickers, according to some.

The Central Goldfields Shire Council says Victoria's oldest static library in the small town of Talbot, north of Ballarat, will be replaced by a mobile service early next month.