Bendigo Weekly

The Bendigo Weekly was a tabloid-size, full-colour newspaper published weekly throughout Bendigo, and country districts in central Victoria, including Woodend, Echuca, Wedderburn and Colbinabbin until 2019.[http://www.vcpa.com.au/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=37 ] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080323134538/http://www.vcpa.com.au/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=37 |date=March 23, 2008 }}[http://www.mediabay.com.au/newspapers/record.php?licencee=1516] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090925132626/http://www.mediabay.com.au/newspapers/record.php?licencee=1516 |date=September 25, 2009 }}

The paper has won many awards, including a Walkley Award by journalist Anthony Radford for Suburban and Regional Affairs. Radford also was the recipient of a Quill Award for Best Regional or Rural Affairs Report in 2007.{{cite web |url=http://www.walkleys.com/ |title=The Walkley Foundation |publisher=Walkleys.com |date=2014-06-20 |accessdate=2015-03-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190602170657/https://www.walkleys.com/ |archive-date=2019-06-02 |url-status=live }}[http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23849141-7582,00.html]{{dead link|date=March 2025|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} {{cite web|url=http://www.walkleys.com/the-awards/winners/2008-walkley-award-winners.html |accessdate=April 2, 2004 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090122224436/http://www.walkleys.com/the-awards/winners/2008-walkley-award-winners.html |archivedate=January 22, 2009 |title=The Walkley Awards for Excellence in Journalism - 2008 Walkley Award Winners }}

Victorian Country Press Awards for a paper with circulation greater than 10,000 include: Journalism 2006, 2007 and 2008; Local Reporting 2006, 2007 and 2008; Best Use of Colour 2007; Best Photographic Study 2008; Best News Photograph 2008; and Overall Newspaper Excellence 2008.{{cite web|url=http://www.mediabay.com.au/newspapers/record.php?product=3129 |accessdate=August 31, 2009 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080722235331/http://www.mediabay.com.au/newspapers/record.php?product=3129 |archivedate=July 22, 2008 |title=Mediabay ~ Newspaper Record }}

The awards won in 2006 relate specifically to the paper's coverage of the water crisis confronting Bendigo.[http://www.abc.net.au/news/australia/vic/bendigo/200612/s1802148.htm ]{{dead link|date=March 2015}} At the time, a decade of drought had depleted the city's reservoirs to the point where supplies were likely to run out by year's end.

In 2009 the paper commenced a campaign to promote the building of a new Bendigo hospital.{{Citation needed|date=September 2009}}

In September 2019, it was announced the paper would cease publication as a separate entity and absorbed by the Bendigo Advertiser which aims to boost poor circulation figures of the latter masthead.