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KERANG and Cohuna residents will pause for one minute Thursday to mark the date when the guns of the Western Front fell silent after four…

A VISITING general practitioner to Cohuna and Kerang has been named as the new president of the Rural Doctors Association of Australia (RDAA). Dr Megan…

THE NSW Government has further ease rules for the vaccinated by bringing forward roadmap changes a month ahead of schedule. Premier Dominic Perrottet said bringing…

THE Electoral Boundaries Commission (EBC) has ruled out making the Murray Plains state electorate substantially bigger by including all the Loddon Shire. The EBC released…

THE Mugambi family could not be further away from their home city of Nairobi in Kenya — in distance, weather and population — but they…

MEMBER for Mallee Anne Webster wants to make social media giants liable as publishers if they don’t remove allegedly defamatory material. Dr Webster introduced the…

ECOLOGISTS have been greeted with hectares of rare aquatic plants growing over a once-degraded wetland at Reed Bed Swamp in the Guttrum State Forest. Swathes…

MURRAY River Council (MRC) ratepayers are expected to save more than $83,000 per year when streetlights are switched to energy-efficient technology. More than 1310 streetlights…

THE show will go on in Kerang, albeit a condensed four-day version next month. The Kerang Show was cancelled by the Kerang Agricultural Society in…

LIKE many teachers, Millie Dean has had a tough two years with the pressure of COVID on her students, but she was better prepared than…

TRAVELLING between the Mallee and Melbourne, it’s hard not to be tempted by Bridgewater’s famous vanilla slice that was recently crowned the best in Australia.…

BANKS are being urged to reconsider further closing of branches in regional towns as a taskforce is launched to examine the impact. The Regional Banking…