Intrepid reporter and bon vivant Kit Fennessy attends the judging of the Gippsland Wine Show at the Cape Paterson Surf Life Saving Club.

It started when Jen Rutherford borrowed a trap to catch her bantam, Brownie. Now she wants to repay the favour.

If you’ve tried to see your GP recently, you’ll know it can now take weeks to get an appointment. Dr Nola Maxfield explains what’s changed.

Maddy Harford delves into the mystery of Chisholm TAFE’s empty Wonthaggi campus and concludes the next step is up to us.

We just need more genuine free range egg farms, writes Phil Westwood.

One of the biggest stories of our time was off limits at the Festival of Stories, writes Travis Thompson

Listen to the evidence, not social media, and remember it’s not a popularity contest ... retiring councillor and former Bass Coast mayor has some advice for aspiring councillors.

What if the money spent on keeping homeless people out of the old Wonthaggi high school site had been spent on sheltering them? Graeme Charles can’t help imagining.

Despite Chisholm Institute’s impressive advertising hoardings, the institute doesn’t offer a single in-person course in Bass Coast. Malcolm Beasley’s out to change that.

What would you do if you lost your home? Leslie Adams imagines how we might offer practical to the scores of people now homeless in our own community.

Local government wasn’t on the radar for the arts graduate – then he learned it was the place to make a difference.

Bass Coasters were in the box seat for one of Nature’s exhilarating light shows and thousands of locals braved the cold to catch the aurora australis from vantage points along the coast.

A night of music and dancing will raise money to help resettle refugee families in Bass Coast.

THE olives are ripening early this year, not surprising given our glorious late summer weather, and so the first pressing of the year for Wonthaggi’s community olive press has been brought forward.

A poem by Dan Drummond

As climate change accelerates, Helen Zervopoulos says we need to stop the blame game and become more resilient.

In a few shocking minutes Jen Rutherford lost her house. That’s when a community wrapped their arms around her and told her she was not alone.

It’s all very well to expand to the north of Wonthaggi but don't forget the south side, writes Beryl Farr.

Ron Kousal’s mostly fallacious rabbiter’s guide to Rhyll, from Don Giovanni to La Causa Nostril.

With our little country town is destined to become a major regional centre, the Post asked residents to reflect on what lies ahead.