Bendigo News

A local bin captain has enraged his entire street by purposely putting out the wrong bin. Jim Roberts told The Bendigo Standard  "I usually put out my bins first. I thought it would be hilarious to put the red and green bins out instead of...

Funko is releasing Bendigo's favourite son Bryan 'Cogho' Coghlan as a Pop! Vinyl. The Bendigo Standard got its hands on the first Mini-Cogho this week. The radio personality is wearing headphones and standing next to his German shepherd 'Fyffey', named after Rod Fyffe. Funko Marketing...

Local IT consultant Frank Grossman was informed via email this week that he was a year behind in social club donations. Social club Treasurer Sharon Knox said "Casual Dress is $2 a week. He owes $92 in casual dress back pay, sans annual and sick...

Bendigo's newest millionaire has told The Bendigo Standard he plans to fix Hargreaves Mall himself. The builder and lucky duck said "The refurbishment 10 years ago cost $4 million. I thought 'bugger it', I reckon I could fix it myself for half of that." When...

Local guitarist Bobby "Fat Fingers" Jenkins is excited as a pig in a blanket to start busking again after another lockdown is lifted tonight. "I've been busking outside of Coles in the CBD for 22 years so this is like an encore. Mr Jenkins said....

Church of Scientology has found a new home at the former Universal Nightclub. The church purchased the building for an undisclosed sum. Bendigo religious leaders joined together in front of town hall Monday morning to welcome Scientology into the city. "The Church of Scientology is...

Construction of Bendigo's GovHub has ground to a halt following the discovery of the remains of the council's self-respect. In a written statement the construction manager Gerald McSwot said a project archaeologist found the remains were discovered Thursday morning about 10:30am during morning smoko. The...

An Eaglehawk woman is in hospital after an unfortunate smoking accident. The woman who was waiting for the bus at the time lit her morning cigarette. The small flame instantly engulfed her mask. Passerbyers were able to quickly extinguish the face fire by using water...

When Bacardi Phonesdead helped her six-year-old daughter set up her first marijuana stand over the weekend, she thought it would be a lesson in entrepreneurship and charity. “My daughter went online and decided she wanted to raise money for charity,” she said. But they got...

A grown adult in his 40's has revealed to his partner he still has nightmares involving the faceless doll from 90's kids show Lift Off. "EC", the notorious faceless, genderless doll, was supposed to represent "every child" but instead represented their nightmares. Hamilton Cunningham, 42...