SIXTEEN inspiring food gardens across the width and breadth of Bass Coast will open their gates on Saturday 8 and Sunday 9 February for the fourth annual Bass Coast Edible Gardens Weekend.

Suggestions for fixing Phillip Island's holiday overflow

Bass Coast CFA crews have responded to multiple callouts over the past three weeks. The Post asked Bass CFA captain Andy Stewart about life on the front line ​– and what goes on behind the scenes.

​For over 50 years Richard Kemp has known this day would come.

A SEARING hot day did not deter Waterline residents and visitors from welcoming back the Grantville market last Sunday after a short hiatus.

People come for the cheap housing and fall in love with the bush and wildlife. Long-time resident Jan Grimes explains what’s so special about the Adams Estate and why it’s now under threat.

Someone should slap a heritage listing on that old fibro cement shack, writes Althea Thomas

​It’s easy to despair at the state of the world but a local refugee support group finds generosity at the heart of our community. Maddy Harford reports.

Few people in their lifetime will achieve what Jan Child did in her eight-year tenure at Bass Coast Health. Mary Whelan pays tribute to a remarkable CEO.

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.