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Councils in north-east Victoria call for a controversial hospital redevelopment to stop after losing faith that the half-billion-dollar build can adequately service the region.

A program making backpack swags for people sleeping rough resonates with prison inmates, as they are about 100 times more likely to have been homeless than the general population.

Prisoners at Beechworth Correctional Centre have designed backpack swags for the homeless as part of a unique community collaboration.

Thirty redundancies were announced at the Victorian brewery on Wednesday with 50 staff remaining employed to continue trading while the administrators restructure the company.

The owners of a popular drinks company in North East Victoria have described the "excruciatingly difficult" decision to put their business into voluntary administration.

A group of young Indigenous people living in the remote Northern Territory community of Wadeye has travelled to Beechworth in Victoria to learn important knife and life skills.

It took 140 years for Djaara cultural items to be returned home after they were displayed at the 1878 Paris Exposition. With another cultural exchange with Paris underway in Bendigo, the repatriation campaign for Dja Dja Wurrung continues.

We sit down with the Naarm/Melbourne singer-songwriter to chat about her "wonky" new album, the song she couldn't stop playing last year, and what she's reading, watching and eating right now.

Beechworth prison in Victoria is helping take pressure off overwhelmed local wildlife shelters, by taking in more than 100 injured animals.

A regional Victorian prison program training inmates to rehabilitate injured native wildlife is giving more than just the animals a second chance.

"You walk around the log and ask it what it wants to be, sometimes it talks back," says Kevin Duffy, who is busy carving a "seat of reflection" from an old giant sequoia in the north-east Victorian town of Beechworth. 

The giant Californian sequoia was the tallest tree in Beechworth's Centennial Park before it was struck by lightning earlier this year. Now local chainsaw artist Kevin Duffy is giving what is left of the 1860s stump a second lease of life.

Residents of a tiny town in the NSW Riverina region are battling to save their historic bakery from becoming a petrol station, as regional areas prove attractive servo investments. 

Some 13 per cent of the world's ski areas are predicted to lose all natural snow cover by 2100, but Australia's rate of decline is tipped to be the highest when compared to six other major global skiing regions.

Abandoned Dogs are finding forever homes thanks to Beechworth Prison and Wodonga Dog Rescue's partnership. Yogi, Drake, Bailey and Rocky hope they can find a family to call their own soon.

Prisoners are caring for abandoned dogs before the animals are returned to a rescue organisation to find a forever home, benefitting both humans and hounds.

Mountain biking is now more popular than fishing, and rugby league and union combined. More regional towns are seeing how they could benefit. 

Angel Cropley screamed the first time he was helped onto a horse. Now he's preparing to navigate the Great National Trail.

There are suspicions among business owners that the aggressive foreigners are driving away customers — but others are more concerned about the environmental impact of the malignant pest.

Builders have reported wait times of up to two years for projects gaining planning approvals, while some local councils operate with little to no planning staff. So why are councils struggling to recruit planners amid a building boom?