The world is a beautiful and bizarrely complex place. We in Australia are fortunate in being a biodiversity hotspot for a large number of highly specialised creatures found nowhere else on the globe - including the ones that can sometimes give us bad dreams.

Escaped livestock, particularly cattle, have become a growing safety and liability concern in parts of South Gippsland, culminating in court action, local government intervention, and mounting frustration among residents and road users.

Call outs to a burning car are becoming something of a regular occurrence for our CFA crews of late. A 3am pager led the Fish Creek & District fire crew to a burning ute that was “stolen, dumped and torched” just outside the town at the end of last month.

While the closures of Bendigo Bank branches in Korumburra and Yarram have sparked protests and political intervention, the quiet upcoming shutdown of Welshpool's banking agency on October 6 has gone largely unreported, despite representing a 26-year history of community-driven financial services.

Escaped livestock, particularly cattle, have become a growing safety and liability concern in parts of South Gippsland, culminating in court action, local government intervention, and mounting frustration among residents and road users.

Keep up to date with Prom Coast art exhibitions, music and concerts, sports, markets, and events of all kinds in our events calendar.

If you’ve ever travelled across India and had a taste of the wide variety of dishes to be found across the land, you’ll know what’s on offer to us further south is a pale imitation of the original.