Bass Coast has a new team of councillors to manage our affairs over the next four years, including six new councillors.

THREE sitting councillors have won re-election in the Bass Coast Council election, one has been dumped and the fate of two hangs in the balance.

COWES will be transformed into a pedestrian-friendly township that fully embraces its historic foreshore, with $8 million in new Federal Government funding announced today for the council’s Cowes Foreshore Precinct project.

Bass Coast Health’s CEO Jan Child has stepped down after eight tumultuous years during which she transformed local health services.

Bass Coast’s woodlands will no longer be considered a priority sand mining area for the state.

While Phillip Island Community and Learning (PICAL) may be forced to wind up, funding and support agencies have moved quickly to ensure crucial services will continue.

Bass Coast Health has secured $5 million in State Government funding towards building hotel-style accommodation for key health workers and their families on vacant land behind Wonthaggi Hospital.

AFTER three progressive councils, the pendulum could be about to swing for Bass Coast Shire Council.

Bass Coast Council goes into the property business – but not to make a profit.

$54 million plan for Mahers Landing gets a bad rap.

Berninneit - the new Cowes Cultural Centre - has won Victoria’s highest accolade in the public category of the Victorian Architecture Awards, announced last Friday night. The new Cowes Cultural and Community Centre was the jury’s unanimous choice for wh

Bass Coast volunteers were honoured for their leadership at the second annual Bass Coast Community Awards at Berninneit last week.

Almost one in five Bass Coast voters will change wards at the next council election.

After 10 years of cantankerous debate, the third and final stage of Inverloch’s beachside pathway is cleared for take off, though it won’t please everyone.

THE Wonthaggi-Inverloch shared pathway is the single ‘big ticket’ item in Bass Coast’s draft budget for 2024-25.

More empty houses in Bass Coast but local renters can’t afford them.

RESIDENTS in the most severely storm impacted areas of Bass Coast can benefit from an additional kerbside debris collection.

SHOULDER replacements and endoscopic gastric stents have been added to the list of surgeries that can be performed at Wonthaggi Hospital.

... but councillors aren’t happy about it.

Should a landowner be allowed to build on a site that’s likely to be swamped by rising sea waters? No, say councillors.