Even with increased funds from the Federal Government's National Heritage Trust (NHT) Fund, Landcare groups in Victoria completed less onground work in 1998 than three years earlier.

Bushfires 99: Flammable Australia is a national conference of bushfire experts, ranging from firefighters, national park managers and meteorologists to wildlife researchers, ecologists and social scientists.

An innovative program that encourages more active lifestyles, and ultimately improved health, for older people living in rural Australia will be officially launched next week at a national conference in Albury.

A website that will improve communication between emergency management professionals in Australia and around the world, has been given the go-ahead with a $20 000 grant to Charles Sturt University.

People with disabilities are safe, reliable and productive workers and successfully employed across a range of industries in the region, according to research recently conducted in Albury-Wodonga.

Identifying ways to encourage local communities in rural and regional NSW to work together in preventing and responding to drug problems, will be a focus at the NSW Drug Summit at Parliament House, Sydney, next week.

The Albury Regional Museum and Albury Regional Art Gallery will join Charles Sturt University in a celebration of the changing faces of Albury-Wodonga that presents unique images, past and present, of the twin cities.

Jenny McKinnon will seize her degree like a holy grail when her name is called at this morning's Arts Faculty Graduation Ceremony at the Charles Sturt University Wagga Wagga Campus.

Albury residents rank the environment higher than the rest of NSW but tend to act less on these concerns, according to a study recently completed by Charles Sturt University researcher, Johnathon Howard.