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1 day ago | 
abc.net.au | Annie Brown |Callum Marshall |Emile Pavlich
Permits for two renewable energy projects in regional Victoria have been approved despite community opposition. Planning Minister Sonya Kilkenny approved Mint Renewables' 400-megawatt-hour (MWh) battery energy storage system (BESS) at Dederang in the Kiewa Valley, east of Myrtleford. The controversial project received strong objections from hundreds of community members with concerns about risks to amenities, the environment, and bushfires.
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1 week ago | 
abc.net.au | Annie Brown
On a research farm in north-east Victoria, a trial is underway to prepare the country for an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD). A series of neat piles of soil with thermometers stuck in the side are formed into composting windrows, containing 70 cattle carcasses buried beneath. The cows, which died from toxic weed poisoning, are being used in the trial to establish whether the infected carcasses can be safely decontaminated underground to create a compost by-product for commercial use.
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2 weeks ago | 
local12.com | Annie Brown
MASON, Ohio (WKRC) – You can make a splash at Kings Island to get your summer started. Soak City waterpark opens, and features new-and-improved areas and rides on May 24. RiverRacers, what the park says is Ohio’s first racing water coaster, also opens. Riders are able to race their family and friends side-by-side on rafts, and will be launched down a 33-foot drop, reaching speeds of 30 miles per hour.
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3 weeks ago | 
abc.net.au | Isabel Moussalli |Annie Brown
A discovery by amateur palaeontologists in northern Victoria has helped change our understanding of reptile life on earth. Experts say the fossil of several clawed footprints on a rock shows reptiles appeared 35 to 40 million years earlier than previously thought.
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3 weeks ago | 
abc.net.au | Jacinta Bowler |Annie Brown
Builder Craig Eury and winemaker John Eason were fossil hunting near the Victorian town of Mansfield when they spotted some footprints on a slab of rock. "It was literally the footprints that caught my eye — the light hit the rock in way that cast a shadow on the footprints," Mr Eury said. "I couldn't believe it — it's rare in life you find what you've always been dreaming about finding," Mr Eason added.
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4 weeks ago | 
abc.net.au | Matt Brann |Annie Brown
Australia exported more than 127,000 tonnes of beef last month, a record for April. The biggest customer was the United States (37,213 tonnes), followed by China (21,572 tonnes). The record month for Australia comes as beef exports from the United States to China have ground to a halt. However, many analysts feel it is too early to attribute Trump tariffs and trade wars to the noticeable uptick in exports.
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4 weeks ago | 
abc.net.au | Annie Brown
Standing on the banks of Barmah Lake, you might spot spoonbills, pelicans and egrets bathing at the water's edge. It would be just a glimpse of the 270 animal species and 500 native plants that live in Barmah National Park — a landscape that has started to thrive since the controversial decision to remove its population of wild horses. The park sits on Yorta Yorta country, stretching across the flood plains of the Murray River in northern Victoria.
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4 weeks ago | 
abc.net.au | Angus Verley |Annie Brown |Prue Bentley
Farmers running out of feed and water for their stock are being forced to sell animals in huge numbers as drought conditions roll on in southern Australia. Some farmers have been handfeeding livestock and trucking in water for the past 18 months. But they are reaching a breaking point, where the cost and logistics are too much — so they are selling their stock. Brie Lewis farms near Cavendish, in the foothills of the Grampians, in western Victoria.
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1 month ago | 
abc.net.au | Annie Brown |Justine Longmore
Sales of cottage cheese have significantly increased in Australia as a result of a TikTok trend. Supermarkets say they are struggling to keep up with the increase in demand. The major supermarkets say cottage cheese supplies are slowly improving. Supermarkets say they are struggling to meet demand for cottage cheese as the product booms in popularity online.
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1 month ago | 
abc.net.au | Philippe Perez |Annie Brown
When 16 year-old Jacob Wright isn't at school, he is out working at his sheep stud on his grandparents' property in regional New South Wales. The teenager is still too young to drink, drive or vote but that has not stopped him taking note of what both parties are offering the next generation. Jacob said neither party was offering enough for agricultural workers.
