STEAMRAIL Victoria has announced its Snow Train tourist service will stop at Warragul twice this year, once next weekend and once next month, after only passing through last year.

FOUR artists have taken out top honours at the inaugural ArchiBawBaw Portrait Prize Exhibition at Mount Baw Baw.

KURNAI Nations elders have established a Facebook page to help them connect with the people of the area.

THREE jerrycans were stolen from the tray of a ute parked in a School Road driveway in Trafalgar on Tuesday night.

JULIAN Assange has dramatically declared he won't be leaving the Ecuadorean embassy even if Sweden dropped its sexual assault investigation.

MOORS murderer Ian Brady has left his own mental health tribunal hearing for around two hours because he felt the lawyers were going over old ground.

NATIONALS Senate leader Barnaby Joyce has warned local government it needs to get out and sell the Yes case for constitutional recognition.

JULIAN Assange expects the ALP to lose the federal election and he's hoping for a clean-out afterwards - starting with Julia Gillard and her "cronies".