User Profile

Alistair Finlay

Editor of the Sunraysia Daily. Likes my dog, bikes, water, sunshine, trucks, reading, ice hockey and yoga. Established the Broken Hill Times, as well as Ballarat Times, Bendigo Times, and Golden Plains Times, and saved the McIvor Times. Tours of duty at the Latrobe Valley Express, The Advocate in North-West Tasmania, and the Westlock News in Alberta, Canada.

News

City joins ag bag roundup

SINGLE-use plastic waste bags resulting from part of the agricultural sector can now be dropped off at Mildura Rural City Council tips and transfer stations as part of a national recycling effort. Known as the bagMUSTER program, the nationwide effort...

16 hours ago

News

Best and brightest shine at awards

MEMBERS of First Nations communities as well as employers, business owners and dignitaries headed to the Grand Ballroom at Quality Hotel Mildura Grand last week for the Indigenous Employee of the Year Awards dinner. The event, coordinated by...

16 hours ago

Health

Air ambos take to sky

FOUR new air ambulances have officially taken to Victorian skies following an announcement by the state’s Minister for Ambulance Services, Mary-Anne Thomas. Taking place late last week at Essendon Airport in Melbourne, the homebase of the Victoria’s...

17 hours ago

News

Swan Hill launches tourism campaign

WHILE Mildura might want to be Tropical North Victoria, a new tourism push up the river has taken a different approach. Launched on Sunday by Swan Hill Incorporated, the effort to attract more people to visit the region is being titled Escape, and...

17 hours ago

Police & Courts

Fire claims farm shed

AT least seven Country Fire Authority and Fire Rescue Victoria appliances turned out to a shed fire on Sunday afternoon. Firefighters were called to a property in Merbein South, off River Avenue, about 2.20pm to fight the blaze in a machinery...

25 Mar 2025

Business

Bus with the biz ready to roll

THE Small Business Bus is set to roll into Mildura early next month and a State Government MP is urging people to jump on board. Run by Business Victoria, the service is free and offers general advice as well as tips on planning, financial...

21 Mar 2025

News

Works at boat ramp progressing

A $440,000 overhaul of the boat ramp at Red Cliffs is progressing well, a Victorian State Government MP has said. Upper house MP for Northern Victoria, Jaclyn Symes, released a statement on Monday saying the project, which includes resheeting and...

19 Mar 2025

News

Fire destroys massive packing shed

FIREFIGHTERS from both sides of the river rushed to an agricultural blaze at Coomealla late last week. At about 2.30pm, crews from the New South Wales Rural Fire Service, Fire Rescue NSW, as well as responders from Fire Rescue...

18 Mar 2025

Tennis

Quarters await at International

PLAYERS at the Mildura International head into the quater finals today following strong play in the round of 16. In the men’s draw Australians Omar Jasika and Joshua Charlton go head-to-head after both went to three sets yesterday. Fellow countrymen...

14 Mar 2025

News

Call to dig into free soil tests

TAKE up of free soil testing for home gardeners offered by Victoria’s Environmental Protection agency has been low according to data from the organisation. With fewer than 10 registrations for the service in the Mallee and Sunraysia regions...

11 Mar 2025

News

Tuesday is the new Monday (and Wednesday)

WE take our job of providing this community with important news and information we can use to make key decisions in our lives seriously, but we need to balance that with remaining viable. Times are tough, no one is denying...

08 Mar 2025

News

La Trobe to back pay $10m

LA Trobe University has been ordered to back pay workers for underpayment, including superannuation contributions, by the Commonwealth’s Fair Work Ombudsman. Known as an enforceable undertaking running to $10.77 million, the order...

07 Mar 2025