EMERGENCY repairs have begun to save the Inverloch Surf Lifesaving Club house after storm surges pounded the beach and left the clubhouse just 10 metres from the dune edge.

The company behind a proposed 1000-lot marina development at Mahers offers to fix Inverloch’s beaches, but it would pay to read the fine print. Catherine Watson reports

A NEW Waterline Community Library Network will be established to replace the retiring mobile library service.

BASS Coast residents have made more than 135 submissions in the first week of public consultation for the Bass Coast Distinctive Area and Landscapes project.

Bass Coast CEO Ali Wastie predicted no local job losses as four Gippsland councils this week embarked on the first step of a shared service model.

THE State Government will build Phillip Island’s new community hospital next to the Health Hub, in Church Street, Cowes.

Councillors have committed to retaining Bass Coast's mobile library until alternatives are in place.

CONSULTATION will start within a few months on the boundary of the $19.6 million Bass Coast Coastal Park and George Bass Coastal Walk.

what started off as an attempt to untangle Phillip Island’s notorious holiday traffic tangle seems to be morphing into a monster highway

EPA, Bass Rover, dairy farmer

IT’S been a nervous wait for former Bass Coast mayor Jordan Crugnale but the latest count from the Victorian Electoral Commission confirms she is the new MP for Bass.

Brett Tessari is the new Mayor of Bass Coast,

A WONTHAGGI developer who used a legal loophole to bypass the council has been knocked back by the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal on a legal technicality.

​THE council will lobby the state government for more police resources and funding to tackle family violence in Bass Coast following the murder of Samantha Fraser in Cowes in July.

A BASS Coast couple wanting to offer joy flights has been given the all clear by the Victorian Civil and Administrative tribunal.

VETERAN community activist Clare Le Serve has announced she will run as an independent candidate for Bass in the November state election.

THE National Trust’s Victorian branch is calling for urgent protection of the old St Paul’s Boys Home in Newhaven, which it describes as one of the region's most significant heritage places.

THE State Government has identified the McBride campus of the Wonthaggi Secondary College as the site for a cultural precinct incorporating a regional gallery, principal library and convention centre.

UP TO 50 Bass Coast Council staff may lose their jobs as the council seeks to cut costs by sharing administrative services with three other Gippsland councils.

Fines of $100,000 mooted for landowners who encroach on foreshore reserves.