Tag: business

Vulnerable people empowered in demanding year

Empowering vulnerable country people to build strong connections and achieve independence remained a focus for ac.care throughout the 2023/24 financial year.
The country agency was...

Homelessness fundraiser back on


One of the Limestone Coast’s biggest fundraising events will be back in 2025 to support the work of ac.care in supporting vulnerable people at...

Millicent shopping debate flares

Industrial Relations Minister Kyam Maher has made an extraordinary response to a trading hours request from the Millicent Business Community Association.
Although Minister Maher will...

Pasin takes saleyards upgrade calls back to parliament

Member for Barker Tony Pasin has drawn the attention of the House of Representatives to the petition signed by hundreds of people in support...

Committee extended

The all-party South Australian parliamentary select committee which is inquiring into the exporting of wood fibre and other Limestone Coast timber matters has been...

Hands-on hospitality experience

Students from the Mount Gambier High School Flexible Industry Pathways classes embarked on an ambitious real-world learning project, teaming up with Metro Bakery and...

Funding pool helps farmers through drought

The State Government is investing $18m to assist farming communities affected by drought across South Australia, as many primary producers experience their driest season...

Cattle herd in official destock

The latest livestock products data released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) shows the Australian cattle herd is in an official destock with...

Shoppers spread retail cheer

Retailers kept their doors opened for extended trading on Tuesday evening as part of the Mount Gambier Chamber of Commerce’s Christmas Wrap Up.
More than...

Millicent trade exemption call

Ministerial exemption is being sought to allow Millicent’s two regulated supermarkets to have additional trading during the festive season on a trial basis.
If Industrial...

Toast of the town

Several Mount Gambier hospitality venues have been recognised in the 2024 Australian Hotels Association South Australian Hotel Industry Awards for Excellence. The gala event was...

Yalumba makes history

Yalumba’s 2021 Sanctum Coonawarra Cabernet Sauvignon has claimed back-to-back wins at the Limestone Coast Wine Show.
It’s the first time in the 23-year history of...

‘Rare earth’ exploration backlash

Acoalition of regional agricultural and business leaders has launched a new advocacy group focussed on protecting the Limestone Coast’s high value agricultural resource, finite...