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There has been a spike in illegal rubbish dumping and recycling bin contamination in Wellington Shire during the COVID-19 social distancing restrictions.

A man was taken to hopsital after a house fire just before midnight in Sale on Thursday night.

Premier Daniel Andrews has announced a timeline for the further easing of restrictions relating to the COVID-19 pandemic.

UPDATED | The Maffra and Sale agricultural societies have cancelled the Sale and Maffra shows this year.

Teammates from various sporting codes will get to train together for the first time since the end of March, when some restrictions on formal training are lifted next week.

Indoor dining will be back on the menu in a limited capacity at local pubs, cafés and restaurants, once the next stage of social distancing restrictions are lifted.

Work on Phase 2 of the Macalister Irrigation District modernisation project is expected to begin this winter, after the state government this week announced $10.4 million for the project.

Wellington Shire Council has handed chief executive David Morcom more scope to award contracts for capital works projects.

Yarram and District Health Service's long-anticipated Integrated Health Care Centre is inching its way to completion, with an anticipated handover in late May, some months past its scheduled handover at the end of 2019.

The highly emotive debate over the culling of brumbies in the high plains took a new turn this week, when Omeo cattleman Philip Maguire embarked on a mustering trip through the treacherous snow-capped High Country to bring back about 100 brumbies surviving between the town of Benambra and the Snowy River.

A Stratford woman is calling for a thief who took 23 of her beloved, rare Vorwerk chooks to return them, unharmed.

Wellington Shire Council will establish a taskforce to lobby the state government regarding the proposed phasing out of native timber harvesting in Victoria.