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THE Federal Government’s call to slash the JobSeeker and JobKeeper payments at the start of the new year is “brutal”, according to Mallee Family Care…

THE Wentworth area dodged disaster late last week when a fire tore through about 140 hectares of grassland at Milpara Station, 30km north-west of the…

MILDURA-based Family Day Care educator Bronwyn Williams has been awarded the prestigious Perpetual Star Award as part of the 2020 Family Day Care Australia Excellence…

THE future of Psyche Bend pumping station is looking bright despite the site being closed for six months last year due to COVID-19 restrictions. Sunraysia…

VICTORIANS are urged to stay safe when using ladders for odd jobs, like taking down festive decorations or doing DIY maintenance around the home, as…

A LIGHTNING strike is believed to have caused a fire in the Lower Murray Water Treatment Plant Forest Reserve at Koorlong on Sunday night. Firefighters…

PEOPLE say age is just a number, but Sharon Williams and Robyn Cielo are living proof. The YouFit Mildura members recently achieved podium finishes in…

FOLLOWING a terrible bus accident, Merbein resident Margaret O’Rourke’s garden became a kind of therapy on her road to recovery. Set behind an empty plot…

TRACEY Tonkin has worked for nearly four decades as a registered nurse, but “never experienced anything like 2020 before”. Ms Tonkin was on the local…

SUNRAYSIA’S fundraising king John Burfitt is looking forward to 2021 with “great optimism” and a wish list that includes dusting off a metal detector, a…

ONE of the biggest reasons why people play sport at a community level is for the social connections. And this was sorely missed in 2020…

FOR 65 years, Mildura Paddle Steamers has weathered the storms that threatened to capsize the family business. But in 2020, the icon of Sunraysia’s stretch…