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Friday, February 28, 2025

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Pawsitive pet adoption month iis back

THE Petstock Foundation’s National Pet Adoption Month will be hosted again this year at the Mildura store throughout March. The event was created to help find loving homes for pets in need of an adoption, with thousands of animals including cats and...

2 hours ago
Travel

Pooncarie’s Big Yabbie finds its home

ALMOST four years in the making, Pooncarie’s Big Yabby was installed in the middle of town recently, offering a new tourist attraction for road-trippers travelling on the recently sealed road to Menindee. The sculpture’s creator Lindsay Butcher...

4 hours ago
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Murray Bridge to host MDBA conference

THE Murray Darling Basin Authority have announced plants to hold their fifth annual water conference in Murray Bridge, South Australia in July. MDBA chief executive Andrew McConville said the conference hadn’t been held in that part of Southern...

4 hours ago
Police & Courts

Thieves target top shelf grog

A MILDURA man who targeted top shelf spirits to steal during two raids on the same alcohol outlet within a month has been jailed. Twenty-four-year-old Jarvis Kennedy was among a group of co-accused who attended the BWS outlet on Fifteenth Street in...

4 hours ago
Education

MSC alumni pens page-turning talk

A MILDURA Senior College alumni and storyteller returned to her old school on Wednesday to speak with current Year 12 students. Lardil and Yangkaal artist Maya Hodge has worked as an assistant curator at the Koorie Heritage Trust and Blak Dot...

12 hours ago
Police & Courts

Home invader ‘has worth’

A MILDURA man involved in a violent home invasion has been warned to stay clear of drugs upon his release from custody after being sentenced to almost five years in jail. The County Court heard 28-year-old Jahmal Johnson twice went to the same...

12 hours ago
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Search on after dog act

A MILDURA pensioner’s dog will be put down following severe injuries it sustained after he said it was attacked by one of two unleashed German shepherds on Fifteenth Street.

12 hours ago
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Cash on offer for Youth Fest

MONEY is now on offer for community groups and local governments as part of the Victorian State Government-backed Youth Fest 2025 funding stream. Up to $2000 is available as part of the grant program, and local Mildura MP Jade Benham encouraged...

12 hours ago
Police & Courts

Teen gets a driving lesson

A YOUNG motorist who lost traction in front of police while driving his father’s car has been ordered off the roads for five days to gain an appreciation about his obligations while behind the wheel. The Mildura Magistrates’ Court heard the...

12 hours ago
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Safety upgrade at key intersection

UPGRADES to a key Mildura intersection are expected to be finalised this Friday. The intersection at Walnut Avenue and Thirteenth Street has been closed to through traffic since Monday forcing the many people who regularly use the thoroughfare to...

12 hours ago
Community

Young fundraiser makes a splash

A VERSION of the Mildura 100 will be tackled five times by a 12-year-old ski racer as a fundraiser for the Good Friday Appeal. Thea Anderson lives in Colac, but had previously competed in the Mildura 100 while it was running. “With the race being...

12 hours ago
Farming and Environment

Fire levy increase too much: VFF

THE Victorian Farmers Federation says a looming lift in the fire services property levy - now known as the emergency services and volunteers fund - could push some farmers to the wall. The peak body’s president Brett Hosking said some farmers were...

12 hours ago
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Money paves the way to heritage site

THE New South Wales Government and the Balranald Shire Council are set to spend more than $4 million dollars to improve a long stretch of road in the municipality’s west. Marma Box Creek Road connects the World Heritage-listed Mungo National Park and...

12 hours ago
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Traffic light win for key Mildura intersection

AN increasingly notorious Mildura intersection will have traffic lights installed to address safety issues. The Federal and State governments have announced improvements at the intersection of Deakin Avenue and Sixteenth Street in Mildura will be...

27 Feb 2025
Community

What’s on this weekend?

Find out what’s on in and around Sunraysia this week.

27 Feb 2025
Community

Big table set for Longest Lunch

FINE diners will be sitting under the vines in the Mildura CBD next month for the annual Longest Lunch fundraiser. The event, which is organised by the Mildura Deakin Rotary Club, brings together hundreds of people at one continuously long table...

27 Feb 2025
Community

Big step for Little Sky Eyes

MORE than 300 people are heading along to the inaugural Purple Gala Ball for the Little Sky Eyes foundation this Saturday and raising money to support Australian families affected by Dravet Syndrome and other rare epilepsies as part of the...

27 Feb 2025