TEMPORARY accommodation from the Commonwealth Games athletes village will be moved to regional towns and suburban Melbourne for use as social housing.

Don Johns, a retired pharmacist, ex-councillor and three-times mayor, has lived in Horsham more than 36 years.

JAN and Peter Grenfells' initial experience of life in the Wimmera in the early 1970s did not augur well: they arrived in the middle of a mouse plague. Every inch of their new home in Horsham was overrun - even their beds. Then there were the summers, the land baked..read more

THE GRAMPIANS National Park is an area of rugged sandstone and granite cliffs, surrounded by the pastureland of Western District farms. An important Aboriginal area for thousands of years, caves in the north and west Grampians feature Aboriginal rock paintings. Ararat, Hamilton and Horsham ar