After a recent heart attack, Mark Robertson welcomes news that Wonthaggi Hospital is forging closer links with Frankston Hospital's cardiac unit.

Two recent editions of The Waterline News were published from Roger Clark’s hospital bed. He credits the magazine with keeping him sane in difficult times. ​

Scottish writer Cal Flyn confronted the truth of her ancestor Angus McMillan, a revered pioneer who perpetrated the slaughter of Gippsland’s Indigenous people. ​ By Jeannie Haughton THE internet is...

“Not the type to make a fuss”, Emily JJ wants others to learn from her experience of losing her privacy to a neighbouring develoipment.

Pamela Jacka argues the merits of a cat run - for cats and their owners.

A marriage breakdown brought David Norton to Bass Coast, where the healing power of nature and friendships helped him put his life together again.

The unrelenting negativity of reports on council deliberations and decisions is clouding the facts, writes Kay Setches.

Commercial tourism in The Gurdies, as proposed by the council, threatens a unique forest and its wildlife, writes Dick Wettenhall.

For 30 years, Fiona Hill lived on an off with a Syrian family. Now their lives have been shattered by war and it’s time to repay the favour.

After 32 years of delivering meals on wheels around Wonthaggi, Vilya Congreave reflects that the service was about much more than a meal.

Residents of The Gurdies opposed to a rezoning of their land for tourism are advocating not just for their own futures but for the lives of all the creatures who live around them.

Last Christmas brothers Luke and David Wilkinson converged from north and south to share a morning on the Southern Coast. Later they found they had both written impressions of that morning.

Walt Disney was a dreamer who made a fortune. Braxton Lane thinks he has some lessons for us in Bass Coast.

Travel for Matt Stone has a deeper meaning since he began using his skills and experience to empower people in developing countries.

A proposed “great hall” in Cowes might just be the start of visionary architecture to match the island’s grand landscape, writes Robert J Viglietti ... but only if we open our minds. ​

For guests and volunteers alike, Coronet Bay’s communal lunch was a chance to enjoy the true spirit of Christmas, writes Joy Button.

​​A pedantic planning regime is hampering more imaginative development of small towns such as Grantville, writes Helen Zervopoulos. ​

Mangroves, groynes, coir logs and native oysters are all being considered in an action plan to slow foreshore erosion around Western Port, writes Helen Zervoupolos

THE townships of Coronet Bay, Corinella and Tenby Point are isolated with regard to public transport, so residents were alarmed in June when Public Transport Victoria decided to reduce the services of the feeder bus for these townships by half, namely fro

A Georgian film of reconciliation, Tangerines has HEATHER MURRAY TOBIAS questioning the anger displayed by both sides in last weekend’s clash in Melbourne.