No-frills budget sticks to core services and maintenance in uncertain times

Bass Coast joins the chorus of councils calling for fossil fuel companies to pay for the impacts of climate change.

A man who narrowly escaped drowning has thanked Wonthaggi Hospital staff who helped to save his life.

IT'S BEEN a long haul for Friends of the State Coal Mine but on Friday they got the news they had been waiting for: work will begin this month to restore the underground mine ride.

Pipeline in place as crews prepare to reshape Inverloch’s Surf Beach

Residents fear delays to coastal works expose the beach to winter storm surges.

The Bass Coast Winter Shelter is set to reopen in June after a successful pilot season last year.

Phillip Islanders have a natural interest in what happens across the bay, writes Maurice Schenkel.

Pay $4000 or lose the seal – road plan set to test neighbourhood unity.

Bass Coasters may be better than our city cousins at spotting dangerous surf, but most of us are still guessing.

WORK on the new Kernot bridge is expected to start next month, after the council awarded the tender for the project at today's additional council meeting.

Wellington’s rates push revives questions about AquaSure exemption

Bass Coast councillors say they have no legal grounds to stop the felling of 44 trees as part of a major redevelopment of a Phillip Island holiday park.

Inverloch's Surf Parade Shared Pathway is a step closer to completion with the council beginning the formal process to make a section of the road one way to allow construction of the final stage.

Redevelopment of the Wonthaggi pool and the old high school site, a new sports precinct in Phillip Island, protection of the Western Port Woodlands and coastal erosion top the council’s new advocacy list .

Bass Coast Shire Council ​adopts major rating shake‑up, cuts farm rates and lifts vacant land charges.

SOPHIE Thorn, a 34-year-old youth mental health worker, has been selected as the Greens candidate for Bass in the November state election.

Twelve graduate nurses and midwives will start their careers at Wonthaggi Hospital and San Remo District Nursing.

A 30-UNIT social housing development just minutes from the Wonthaggi CBD will be fast-tracked under the State Government’s Development Facilitation Program.

Contractors are working against the clock to finish sandbag works on the Inverloch foreshore before the start of the holidays.