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Rocky road for investment scheme
A MILDURA businessman is seeking to “set the record straight” after investors questioned the fate of millions of dollars provided to his property finance company,…
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Shire approves future funds
WENTWORTH Shire's councillors have approved a recommendation to borrow money to finance future strategic land acquisitions. The decsion followed report presented to council at the February Ordinary Meeting where the…
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Time to quit it
TOBACCO store fire bombings have been a plague on Victoria for over two years. There have been more than 200 of them, one of which saw an innocent life lost.…
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County Court to hear drugs charges
A MILDURA man accused of trafficking cocaine and MDMA and possessing anabolic steroids has failed in a bid to have the matter heard in the Magistrates’ Court jurisdiction. Police allege…
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Big time bowls rolling into region
THE local lawn bowls community is jumping for joy after it was announced Mildura will host a leg of the World Bowls Series. The event, to be called the Sunraysia…
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Golf day tees up donations
PROGRESS on the Mildura Base Public Hospital Foundation’s initiative for a purpose-built mobile screening clinic has been bolstered by support through the MBPH Foundation Charity Golf Day. Following more than…
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Friction follows committee meeting
DRAFT privacy, access to information, and complaint management policies have been endorsed for public exhibition following a meeting of Wentworth Shire's Audit, Risk and Improvement Committee in February. Councillors were…
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Report counts cost of 2022 floods
MILDURA and surrounds were more susceptible to the 2022 floods than other areas impacted by the event, according to new research. Published by the Victorian Council of Social Service (VCOSS)…
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New bishop anointed
THE region has a new Catholic Bishop following the ordination of a new cleric to the top job at the Diocese of Ballarat. Held on Thursday at St Patrick’s Cathedral…
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Sex offences a ‘very near miss’, court told
POLICE say it was “pure luck” that a convicted sex offender who set up a tent close to a Mildura riverfront playground while in possession of pornographic material, condoms, lubricant…
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Cultural dress is best at West PS
MILDURA West Primary School was a sea of orange and colourful cultural dress at their annual Harmony Day assembly on Friday. And grade six teacher, Maddison Mayne, said the day…