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The Need for Feed convey arrives in Camperdown.

The trucks hauling the generosity of strangers into a green drought

Western Victoria’s drought has turned green. It’s nature’s cruel hoax, and so the big trucks roll, trying to hold back despair across the farming lands.

  • Tony Wright

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Water industry experts say boil water notices could become common if a price decision means Sydney Water cannot invest in infrastructure upgrades.

Pay more for your water or boil it? The unpalatable choice behind Sydney’s water woes

Sydneysiders narrowly avoided having to boil their drinking water in 2021. After a draft bill increase was slashed, some are warning it could become common.

  • Penry Buckley and Max Maddison
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Fire in the hole!

Here comes Dad. Time to bale.

Big 4 Apollo Bay Pisces Holiday Park manager Adrian Davidson.

The desalination plant is running, but these Victorian towns are on water restrictions

Limits on how much water can be used are increasingly being introduced across the state even with the desalination plant switched on.

  • Benjamin Preiss
Poppy Green cuddling a newborn lamb on the family’s Benalla farm.

‘It’s beautiful, sweet’: Rain settles the dust and brings hope to drought-weary farmers

The Greens’ farm in northern Victoria was barren and lifeless last month. Now rain has brought the first flush of clover so sweet, it’s tempting to taste it.

  • Benjamin Preiss
The cold snap crossing the country added 26 centimetres to the storm total at Mount Buller as of Sunday morning. 

Mass car rescue on Mount Hotham as farmers welcome the rain

Specialised alpine search and rescue units used sleds to rescue people trapped in their cars on Mount Hotham because of a snow dump over the weekend.

  • Alexander Darling, Benjamin Preiss and Cassandra Morgan
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SES Bright and Falls Creek unit volunteers helped police with the rescue of people stuck in their vehicles near Hotham Heights.

More than 13 people rescued at Hotham Heights as snow, much-needed rain hit Victoria

The alpine region had the heaviest ski season opening-weekend snowfall in years.

  • Caroline Schelle and Roy Ward
A fresh blanket of snow arrived just in time for the opening of the ski season in Falls Creek.

Double joy as drought-breaking rain arrives and snow covers the alps

Wintry weather is forecast to extend into next week, bringing relief to farmers across the state and solid snowfalls for the start of ski season.

  • Hannah Hammoud
Sheep farmer Duncan Barber on his Coliban Park property near Redesdale in Victoria.

‘I won’t get excited until my hair is wet’: This weekend is make or break for farmers

Drought-stricken communities across Victoria hope rain forecast for much of the state will finally bring relief after months of record-low rainfall.

  • Benjamin Preiss
Beef cattle on a farm near Winslow, Victoria.

‘Dairy shortages, no ifs or buts’: Milk and butter prices to rise as farmers tread water

The high cost of recovery from repeated floods and droughts will contribute to inflation on supermarket shelves.

  • Jessica Yun

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