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Allan Murphy

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

Lost chances in prison death

A CORONER has found there were lost opportunities for a Mildura man who was “clearly” struggling with mental health issues before he was found unresponsive in his prison cell in 2018. Twenty-four-year-old Jayke Aleckson had been on...

18 hours ago

News

Free legal advice to community

LEGAL Aid NSW will be visiting towns in the Wentworth Shire this month. The Family & Civil Law Services for Aboriginal Communities will return to Wentworth, Dareton and Buronga to provide free legal advice to community members. The clinics are...

18 hours ago

News

Lawns closed for Lights Trail works

Mildura’s Lock 11 lawns will be closed on Tuesday as preparations continue for the upcoming Trail of Lights: Fireflies and Gone Fishing art installations.

03 Feb 2025

Community

Red Cliffs alive with Country Market shoppers

03 Feb 2025

Police & Courts

Woman spared more jail time

A WOMAN who assaulted an elderly man with an iron bar in his Mildura home will not spend further time behind bars after a magistrate sentenced her to time already served. Tammy Slater, of Irymple, this week admitted the assault in Mildur...

02 Feb 2025

News

Emergency landing probe

THE pilot of a Mildura-bound flight from Queensland was forced to land on a highway after an engine caught on fire last week. The Australian Transport Safety Bureau is investigating the incident which happened on Friday, January 24 about 28...

01 Feb 2025

Police & Courts

Jail for fatal crash driver

AN Indonesian national who caused the death of a friend when she failed to stop at a Stop sign in Merbein will spend almost a year in jail before being eligible for parole. Thirty-one-year-old Mella Christy had been sight-seeing on a day off from...

01 Feb 2025

Police & Courts

Drug addict caught again

A MAN with 46 pages of criminal convictions has been questioned if he plans to continue using drugs his entire life. The Mildura Magistrates’ Court heard 46-year-old Hong Van Nguyen’s life had been ruined by a long addiction to a range of drugs when...

31 Jan 2025

Police & Courts

‘Pathological’ man refused bail

A MILDURA man who spent Christmas in jail for persistently breaching a family violence intervention order is back behind bars following further contraventions of the ruling just days after his release. The 42-year-old is alleged to have made contact...

31 Jan 2025

Police & Courts

Jail likely for fatal crash driver

A WOMAN was negotiating maps on her phone when she drove through a Stop sign at Merbein killing a friend just a week after arriving in Mildura for seasonal work, a court has been told. The female passenger and the driver of the car -- 31-year-old...

31 Jan 2025

News

Hot days here to stay

THE beginning of February is forecast to bring severe heatwave conditions to the Mallee with some extended weather predictors anticipating up to nine consecutive days of 39 degrees or above. The Bureau of Meteorology has forecast severe heatwave...

31 Jan 2025

Police & Courts

ID left at crime scene

A MAGISTRATE has likened a Mildura man who left his personal details at the scene of a crime to an episode of Australia’s clumsiest criminals. Mildura Magistrates’ Court heard Shaun Pitt was with two other co-accused when they stole items from an...

30 Jan 2025