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ENVIRONMENT Protection Authority (EPA) Victoria is approaching the bushfire season with its biggest ever network of air quality monitors yet. It will also provide twice…

LODDON Shire Council has elected Cr Dan Straub as its mayor the next 12 months. Cr Straub, who is the representative for Terrick Ward -…

TENDERS have been opened for the planning of a Murray River Adventure Trail that will bring tourists, jobs and business to riverside communities across the…

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…