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Following a $50,000 Limestone Coast Landscape Board Grassroots Grant provided to the City of Mount Gambier in September 2021, works are continuing in the Crater Lakes area focusing on the targeted removal of pest weeds and plants. Work has recently commenced on the Keegan Drive side of the crater rim in collaboration with Burrandies Aboriginal Corporation to plant seedlings as part of the revegetation of the area. Read full article

The City of Mount Gambier is now inviting commercial enquiries from suitably positioned applicants for the tenancy of the Mount Gambier Railway Station Building. Read full article

The Riddoch Arts and Culture Centre will open Take me with you by Isobel Knowles and Van Sowerwine on Friday 20 May 2022 at 6:00pm. Postponed from 2021 due to COVID-19 restrictions, the long-awaited exhibition will offer a rare insight into the artists’ practise across animation, installation, virtual reality and media art. Read full article

City of Mount Gambier has today reopened a further section of trail in the Crater Lakes precinct with access reinstated to the path leading to Centenary Tower from the Elliott Drive car park side. Read full article

Mount Gambier Library will host an author event with bestselling author Victoria Purman on Tuesday 3 May 2022 at 7:00pm for the launch of her latest release ‘The Nurses’ War’. Read full article

Following extensive community consultation and auditing of various outdoor spaces, the Mount Gambier Sport, Recreation and Open Space Strategy (SROSS) was endorsed by Council at the April 2022 meeting held this week. Read full article

City of Mount Gambier has today reopened a section of the Sugarloaf, enabling users to access the area between Potters Point and the Punchbowl at the base of the Centenary Tower stairs. The latest phase of the staggered approach to reopening the Crater Lakes area follows ongoing risk assessments since fire took hold in late January burning 50 hectares of grass and scrub. Read full article

City of Mount Gambier Councillor Steven Perryman has resigned from his role as an Elected Member of Council after almost 22 years of service to the local community. Councillor Perryman informed the Mayor, Elected Members and CEO of his decision this morning, with the resignation effective from 5:00pm tonight 29 March 2022. Councillor Perryman became an Elected Member of Council on 13 May 2000 at the age of 26. In 2002 he began in the city’s key civic role as the youngest Mayor in South Australia, a position he held for 12 years before he stood down at the local government election in 2014 to return as a Councillor. Read full article

Mount Gambier Library will host a live author event with local identity and former radio broadcaster, Stan Thomson on Saturday 26 March 2022 at 2:00pm for the launch of his debut novel ‘356; Recall the Truth, Fear the Perception’. Read full article

City of Mount Gambier has reopened Elliott Drive to the Centenary Tower car park from today (Friday 11 March 2022) following a fire that burned 50 hectares of grass and scrub in the Crater Lakes precinct in January 2022. Read full article