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Allan Murphy

Allan is a senior journalist at Sunraysia Daily. Email [email protected] to get in touch.

Police plan holiday blitz

POLICE on both sides of the Murray River say they will leave no stone unturned in order to keep Sunraysia roads safe this Easter and Anzac Day period. The consecutive long-weekends this year will see police launch an extended 10-day road blitz, with...

15 minutes ago

Police & Courts

Theft spree lands man in jail

A MILDURA man who preyed on local retailers to help fund a drug addiction has been jailed. The Mildura Magistrates’ Court heard Gerard Johnson stole high-end meat products, power tools, metal detectors, sunglasses and clothing and used stolen credit...

23 hours ago

Police & Courts

‘I’ve sh** myself’’: fine for faecal fling

A MAN who assaulted a worker at a local supermarket where he had been banned and threw his own faeces at a Good Samaritan who came to his aid has been fined. The Mildura Magistrates’ Court heard the 57-year-old attended at Red Cliffs Foodworks about...

16 Apr 2025

Police & Courts

Police urge a trouble-free Easter

MILDURA police say local licensed venues are doing their bit to provide a safe and welcoming environment and are now inviting visitors and residents during the busy Easter holiday period to join the party ... quite literally. Twenty-eight licensed...

16 Apr 2025

Police & Courts

Meth addict blows bail

A MILDURA woman given “a big chance” when granted bail last Friday has been sentenced to a term of imprisonment after she committed further offending just hours after her release. The Mildura Magistrates’ Court was last week told that...

16 Apr 2025

Police & Courts

Police target home/car break-ins

MILDURA police have arrested more than 15 people over the past two months as part of an ongoing crackdown on home and car break-ins. Detectives from the Mildura Crime Investigation Unit last week executed a number of search warrants targeting those...

16 Apr 2025

Police & Courts

Boy bailed over home invasions

“HIGHLY-organised” youths as young as 10 years of age have been targeting weak and vulnerable people during a series of home invasions across Mildura, a Children’s Court has been told. Police allege a group of up to five young boys...

15 Apr 2025

Police & Courts

Teen arrested by MAFS star

A MILDURA teenager has been detained by a former Married At First Sight contestant after he was allegedly armed with a machete in Melbourne. Tim Smith performed a citizen’s arrest to restrain the boy following reports of teenage boys chasing each...

15 Apr 2025

News

Green light for NDIS accommodation

MILDURA Rural City Council has imposed “more than enough” conditions on a proposed residential care accommodation for people with a disability in a Red Cliffs cul-de-sac to address the concerns of 27 objectors, a forum has been told. Councillors this...

13 Apr 2025

Police & Courts

Woman given ‘chance’ on bail

A MILDURA woman recently released from prison has whined that it was “not really necessary” for a magistrate to keep her behind bars after she absconded from a rehabilitation facility and allegedly committed further offending. The Mildur...

13 Apr 2025

Police & Courts

Police spat on, court told

A MAN accused of spitting at a police officer during his arrest for refusing to move on after he was refused entry into a Mildura nightclub due to his level of intoxication has had his bail extended to next appear in July. The Mildura Magistrates’...

12 Apr 2025