Gannawarra Times

Strategic direction focus

MURRAY River Council’s new chief executive, Stacy Williams, has officially stepped into the role. Joining the team last week, Ms Williams brings more than 19 years of local government experience to the position, including executive leadership roles...

3 hours ago

Farming and Environment

Farming groups fighting for fairer deal

THE Victorian Farmers Federation and Farmers for Climate Action have joined forces to fight for a fairer deal with regional power. Their call to bring regional poles and wires and other infrastructure to a better service level will need an investment...

3 hours ago

News

Murray mates spotlight small towns

TWO local faces feature in a storytelling-led campaign along the Murray border. Returning in 2025 with a greater spotlight on smaller towns, Mates of the Murray shows that some of the region’s richest experiences come from the places people might...

16 May 2025

News

Grant funding now open

GANNAWARRA Shire community groups and organisations are encouraged to prepare for the opening of the council’s community grants program. Applications will open at 9am on Thursday, May 1, and will be accepted up to midnight on Thursday, May...

16 May 2025

News

From Denmark to Boort

THE World Education Program is offering families across the region the chance to host an international exchange student starting this July. WEP is seeking around 50 host families for students aged 15 to 17 from countries including Italy, Germany...

15 May 2025

News

New police chief

NEW Zealander Mike Bush has been appointed as the next Chief Commissioner of Victoria Police. He will step into the top job next month. Mr Bush has more than 40 years’ operational and strategic police experience under his belt, including six years as...

15 May 2025

Video

Videos

Blue Ribbon Day: Honoring Our Heroes and Building a Safer Tomorrow

Blue Ribbon Day is 29 September, which coincides with National Police Remembrance Day. Blue Ribbon Day is a chance for the community to say thank you to those who protect and serve our community and ensure that those who have fallen are never...

28 Sep 2023

Videos

Entertainment at the Cohuna Farmers and Makers Market

Koondrook-based singer-songwriter Elise Drake joined an array of farmers and makers at the June edition of the Cohuna Farmers and Makers Market on Sunday. See more in tomorrow’s Gannawarra Times

26 Jun 2023

Farming and Environment

Abattoir a business boost for emu farm

JEFF Long’s $2.5 million investment in a processing facility is about to start paying dividends at his Tragowel emu property. The delayed completion of the facility has had a knock-on effect on this year’s production schedule, which is...

16 Feb 2023

A town with no pub

FOR months, the doors of the Quambatook Hotel have been closed, and residents say it is taking a toll on the soul of the town. Trevor Roberts has lived in the small town of just over 200 people for seven years and managed the pub under previous...

14 May 2025

News

Church relocated to new home

A PIECE of local history has been lost, with the Horfield Uniting Church relocated to Lancefield. The church on Leitchville-Kerang Road was sold to the Lancefield cemetery trust, seven years after its final service was held. With part of its roof...

14 May 2025

Police & Courts

Rampage appeal dismissed

A VIOLENT offender who rammed through a Kerang car dealer during a three-month rampage across regional Victoria in 2021 has had his appeal against sentence dismissed. Korey Caddy, 35, was granted leave to appeal against a sentence imposed in the...

14 May 2025

Politics

Ley takes on top job after party vote

FARRER MP, Sussan Ley, has been elected by Federal Liberal Party Parliamentary members as the official leader of the Opposition. Ms Ley takes on the job after the defeat of the Coalition at this month’s election, which saw Liberals reduced 42 seats...

14 May 2025

Sport

Football

Bendigo Pioneers Talent League Boys in town

AFTER starting the season with consecutive wins, the Bendigo Pioneers Talent League Boys side will be hoping to return to form when they travel north and host the GWV Rebels in Swan Hill on Sunday. It will be the first time since 2022 that the...

20 hours ago

Football

Kangas coach deregistered

COHUNA Kangas under 12s football coach Benjamin Edwards has been de-registered after being found guilty of engaging in serious misconduct by the AFL Central Victoria Tribunal. Edwards was suspended for 16 weeks, triggering automatic de-registration...

16 May 2025

Netball

Kangas’ coach upbeat ahead of clash with arch-rivals

THE Cohuna Kangas go into Saturday’s all-important clash against unbeaten Kerang confident of an upset, according to Cohuna coach Georgia Anderson. The Kangas proved no match last Saturday for the Mallee Eagles, the other team along with the Blues...

16 May 2025

Football

Must-win game for Swans, Blues

A SPOT in the top four will be the prize when Moulamein and Murrabit clash tomorrow afternoon, with both clubs out to bank the vital early wins that will see them return to finals come season’s end. With both clubs starting the season with one win...

16 May 2025

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