BASS Coast Shire Council’s draft 2025-26 budget reveals total income of $123 million, including $61.6 million in rate revenue and $18.9 million in waste charges.

Seven Silverleaves families are sleeping a lot easier this week after emergency dune works to stabilise the beach in front of their houses.

IT'S been a long time in the planning and a shelter for homeless people is finally going to open in Bass Coast.

High anxiety has turned to cautious optimism for Silverleaves residents with urgent works to prepare for Easter high tides.

After years of being ignored by both major parties, Monash voters can expect to see some election promises coming our way.

A RICHMOND Football Club subsidiary will replace the YMCA as manager of Bass Coast’s leisure centres from July 1.

Bass Coast patients will have access to more complex care and specialist options, says CEO.

Kilcunda resident Tully Fletcher, a director at Deloitte Australia, has been selected as the federal Labor candidate for Monash.

Growth councils seek federal funding to open more land for housing.

Council rejects plans to widen Stanley Road in Grantville for sand trucks to service a new quarry.

The seat of Monash is shaping as a thriller with Independent MP Russell Broadbent announcing he’ll have another go at the age of 74.

Wonthaggi’s cancer centre provided over 1000 cancer treatments last year, sparing patients the emotional, physical and financial toll of travelling for treatment.

The community will come together in the Gurdies Nature Conservation Reserve on Saturday for a ritual of loss and renewal.

THE Cape Paterson community is celebrating tonight after winning a decade-long battle against a massive expansion of their coastal village.

“LIKE the residents in a valley watching a bushfire approaching …” That was how Cr Tim O’Brien’s described coastal residents as he pressed for stronger action on beach erosion at Inverloch and Silverleaves.

COUNCILLORS have mooted a parking offset scheme to slug developers after a San Remo commercial development was granted a full parking waiver.

AFTER two terms as Deputy Mayor of Bass Coast, Cr Rochelle Halstead has been elected as Bass Coast Mayor today at the first public meeting of the new council.

It’s been a week of total immersion for Bass Coast’s new councillors. Behind the scenes it’s been equally busy with mayoral candidates doing the numbers.

PICAL will survive but it’s worth trying to understand how this trusted institution came so close to failing.

The new Cowes Cultural Centre has been awarded a national architecture prize, celebrating fine design and the importance of connection to country and community.