King Island will still go to the polls in October to choose its mayor and deputy mayor, despite only five people nominating for the seven councillor positions.

A King Island farming enterprise built property by property over almost four decades and two generations is entering a new chapter, with the Sutton family’s Darlot Downs, Summerfields, Millstone and Bokara properties being offered for sale.

More public land has been opened to recreational hunters as the government aims to reduce the wild fallow deer population.