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Wade Stephens

Flights not often cancelled to and from Mildura

LESS than one per cent of commercial flights between Mildura and Melbourne were cancelled in the past year. Of the 4796 scheduled flights on the route, a total of 46 were cancelled, and more than a quarter of the cancellations were in July. Data from...

24 Mar 2025

Politics

Rowan in re-run for Mallee

GREENS candidate for Mallee Nicole Rowan wants voters to consider education, health, childcare and climate change when they head to the polls in May. The Macedon Ranges-based tax lawyer has thrown their hat in the ring for the Federal election...

24 Mar 2025

Health

Women’s health boost at Red Cliffs clinic

SUNRAYSIA Medical Centre at Red Cliffs has extended its women’s health services, offering dedicated on-the-day or next-day appointments to women across Sunraysia. Last week, a visiting team from the Royal Women’s Hospital stopped by...

24 Mar 2025

Farming and Environment

Cracking early almond harvest

ALMOND harvests are shortly wrapping up in Sunraysia, as many growers began collecting yields two to three weeks earlier than expected. Back in February, the Almond Board of Australia revised its 2025 crop estimate from 164,700 tonnes to 155,531...

23 Mar 2025

Politics

Gray enters the Mallee fray

A MILDURA-based case worker in out-of-home care has put his hand up for the federal seat of Mallee. Father-of-six Ashleigh Gray had been considering a run at federal politics for two years. After a recent meeting with Family First...

23 Mar 2025

Politics

Labor endorses Olsen for Mallee

DISABILITY support worker Greg Olsen has been endorsed as Labor’s candidate for Mallee. He was made a life member of the Labor Party last year, after he was inspired to first join as a teenager when the Hawke Government was elected in 1983. Having...

23 Mar 2025

Community

Long lost war medal returned to family

A WORLD War I medal that had wound up in a local antique shop has been returned to the soldier’s descendant, after some sleuthing by the Mildura & District Historical Society. Mark Irwin bought the 1914-15 Star from a shop, only...

22 Mar 2025

Community

Record crowd tucks into longest lunch

A RECORD number of diners took part in the Longest Lunch event, fundraising for the Mildura Deakin Rotary Club. Under the vines along Langtree Avenue, 235 people enjoyed a three-course meal on a table stretching out the front of the Spanish Grill...

22 Mar 2025

News

Slow walk for Parkinson’s population

THE Slow Walk for Parkinson’s Awareness will return to Mildura on Sunday, April 13, and take a familiar course. The Mildura Parkinson’s Support Group is encouraging community members to wear red, and join them on a venture from Henderson Park to...

21 Mar 2025

News

Transformer cause of Tuesday power outage

A BLOWN transformer at a Lower Murray Water sewage farm was the cause of a power outage that impacted 3300 Powercor customers across Merbein and Mildura on Tuesday. The fault occurred at about 3.15pm, and the vast majority of Powercor customers had...

21 Mar 2025

Politics

Williams to contest Mallee for One Nation

FORMER Greater Bendigo councillor Vaughan Williams has put his hand up to contest the seat of Mallee at the May federal election. Representing Pauline Hanson’s One Nation Party, Mr Williams comes from a farming family in Clear Lake, in the south of...

17 Mar 2025

News

Legality of land clearing questioned

A LEADING environmental group has challenged the Federal Government over the legality of six large scale land clearing events in south-west New South Wales. The Australian Conservation Foundation used satellite data to examine changes at three...

16 Mar 2025