BASS Coast Health has put the call out for retired healthcare workers to help cover growing staff shortages as Covid runs rampant through the community.

Coastal residents who clear public land to improve their sea view could be in for a shock.

The council will provide six unused road reserves for social housing under the Big Housing Build program.

BASS Coast cats are on notice – their days of carousing, brawling and stalking innocent birds are drawing to a close.

Council has paid $1.2 million for land at 300 Graham Street Wonthaggi to create an interactive sound and light ‘Gondwana Garden’ as part of the Bass Coast Dinosaurs Trail

After a decade of debate and disappointment, work starts next month on $27m island centrepiece.

BASS Coast Shire Council has classified its entire workforce of 400 staff as ‘essential’ and mandated COVID-19 vaccinations for every employee.

TWO Waterline communities are calling foul after Bass Coast Shire Council took over the duties of their local committees. By Catherine Watson

Extended parental leave, super top-up and flexible work schedules close gender gap at Bass Coast Shire Council

A car ferry linking Phillip Island and the Mornington Peninsula is back on the agenda with a feasibility study to determine whether the Cowes Jetty is a suitable docking point.

The proposed resale of the Holden Proving Grounds is a mixed blessing, according to a group campaigning to protect the region’s last significant forest.

“HERO” dinosaurs, a Gondwana garden, virtual reality fossil hunts, light shows and sculptures are part of the vision for the proposed Bass Coast Dinosaurs Trail.

Expert report raises alarm over toxic pollutants from sand mining in Grantville corridor entering Western Port.

Bass Coast Council will argue that Inverloch should remain in the Bass electorate, along with the rest of Bass Coast shire.

The Great Southern Rail Trail will be extended from Welshpool to Alberton at a cost of $6 million, filling one more link in the regional Great Gippsland Trail cycling and walking track.

There will be silence in the Cowes town square tonight after brazen brass-loving thieves nicked the harmony bells. Cartoon by Natasha Williams-Novak

A proposed Victorian electoral boundary realignment transfers Inverloch from the seat of Bass to Gippsland South, effectively dividing the shire into two state electorates.

BASS Coast councillors had no hesitation in grounding a proposed microflight hub on the outskirts of Bass at Wednesday’s council meeting.

Hundreds of residents have signed a petition calling on the State Government to place a moratorium on further sand mining approvals in Bass Coast’s last coastal forest.

Bass Coast councillors call on community to help them decide.