Local vegetable growers could be forced to watch their produce rot in the paddock due to a labour shortage in the Lindenow Valley. It’s nearing the pointy end of the season where crops need to be harvested but the traditional seasonal workforce used to ‘top-up’ the year-round local labour force is stuck overseas, despite those countries being COVID-19 free.Organic grower, Kane Busch, of Busch...

The Royal Cave at the Buchan Caves Reserve has reopened.Parks Victoria will recommence guided tours from today with additional hygiene and safety measures in place.While the Fairy Cave will stay closed for the time being, Caves House, the campground and the main visitor area of Buchan Caves Reserve will be open for the public’s pleasure.Parks Victoria staff have been busily preparing for...

It was this time last year that bushfires were impacting communities around Buchan.It would be two more weeks before the fire eventually broke containment lines and forced its way into the township.Many homes and structures were lost and tragically one resident lost his life after his home was engulfed in the fireball that rolled into Buchan that fateful day.The Buchan football oval resembled a...

Renowned author, Tom Valenta OAM, who penned A Time of Hope, the story about how a group of local champions won hearts and minds to create a vital facility for the Gippsland region, and how the community embraced the construction of an alcohol and other drugs (AOD) residential rehabilitation facility at Lucknow, visited Bairnsdale last week to tour the Hope Centre and attend a number of book...

Buchan residents, Bronwyn and Donald Graham, don’t fear the forthcoming fire season. The couple lived through the horrific bushfires of last summer, watching as their historic house, perched high up in the Buchan hills, with splendiferous views over the Snowy River, went up in flames. From their hilltop view in Buchan East, the Grahams had been watching the fire for six weeks burn through...