Hepburn Shire Council's standing with its own community has fallen to its lowest point in ten years, according to the 2026 Local Government Community Satisfaction Survey released today. The Council's overall performance score came in at 41 out of 100, down five points from 46 last year. To put that figure in context, the average score for comparable small rural councils across Victoria was 60, and the statewide average across all participating councils was 57. Hepburn now sits roughly 16 to 19 points adrift of the average. This is not a one-off stumble. The report records it as the second consecutive year of decline. Before COVID, Hepburn was scoring...

Hepburn United soccer players can now take their game to the next level thanks to new pitch lighting at Victoria Park in Daylesford - backed by the Victorian Government.   Member for Macedon, Mary-Anne Thomas, joined representatives from Hepburn Shire Council and the Daylesford and Hepburn United Soccer Club to officially switch on the new lighting made possible by an almost $270,000 investment from the Regional Community Sports Infrastructure Fund. Up until recently, the almost 180 members of United teams were limited in their capacity to train and compete due to poor lighting. Works at the sports ground have installed 100 lux LED lighting around the soccer pitch giving Daylesford...

A student recently asked me how to price some of their art.  It’s a question we get a lot at Radius Gallery too.  Most...

Daylesford's new Phoenix cinema is running a full  programme of children's favourites during the school holidays. `Minions & Monsters' introduces a fresh tribe of Minions who find fame...