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Total fire ban declared

A TOTAL Fire Ban (TFB) has been declared for the Mallee region tomorrow, Wednesday, 20 November 2019. Tomorrow’s conditions in the Mallee will be hot with temperatures reaching the low to mid 40s and northerly winds between 20 to 30km/h. State Duty...

Riverine Herald

Riverine Herald photographers win CPA awards.

RIVERINE Herald photographers Cath Grey and Steve Huntley have won Victorian Country Press Association awards for outstanding photography. Cath won hers for her pictorial feature on a ride-along with Echuca police and Steve’s was for a four-page...

Riverine Herald

Sam’s off to the supercross

SAM Henson may be a little shy with a microphone in his face, but he lit up when he was told he had won the tickets in the Riverine Herald’s Monster Energy Aus-X Open competition. Just as he lights up behind the handlebars of his Honda 50cc, where...

Ari Balle-Bowness

Sam’s off to the supercross

SAM Henson may be a little shy with a microphone in his face, but he lit up when he was told he had won the tickets in the Riverine Herald’s Monster Energy Aus-X Open competition. Just as he lights up behind the handlebars of his Honda 50cc, where...

Ari Balle-Bowness

Echuca Moama Community Projects toy appeal is on again

CHRISTMAS is just around the corner and Echuca Moama Community Projects (EM Projects) are gearing up for the holiday.

Alex Gretgrix

Echuca-Moama has more than $22 million of unclaimed super

ECHUCA-MOAMA and surrounding areas have turned their backs on more than $22 million of lost/unclaimed superannuation payments.

Riverine Herald

Echuca Bunnings to host barbecue for drought and bushfire victims

ECHUCA Bunnings will hold a barbecue on Friday to help raise funds and support communities impacted by drought and bushfires.

Ivy Jensen

Echuca family robbed twice in a week

AN ECHUCA family has had double the bad luck, after being robbed twice in a week. While the family was asleep in the Eyre St home, thieves entered an unlocked back door between 9.30pm and 11.30pm last Sunday, November 10. A wallet and purse were...

Ivy Jensen

Campaspe Shire decks the halls in Echuca for Christmas

IT’S beginning to look a lot like Christmas around Campaspe Shire as council has decked the collective halls for the festive season. Mayor Adrian Weston said council had been working with community and business groups to create and install...

Lachlan Durling

Works to slow Ogilvie Ave

TRAFFIC at one of Ogilvie Avenue’s most notorious intersection will be disrupted until mid-December as water main relocation works are carried out. Water main relocation works at the intersection of Sturt, Old Aerodrome Rd and Ogilvie Ave have begun...

Lachlan Durling

Njernda take stand against family violence as part of Campaspe DASH

DOMESTIC violence is never simple. There is no silver bullet, no quick fix. And when it comes to family violence in the local indigenous community, the issue can become even more complex. And devastating, as the ripple effects stretch beyond the...

Charmayne Allison

Echuca Regional Health staff dash to raise awareness of domestic violence

THEY say the first step in solving a problem is recognising it exists. Which is why Echuca Regional Health physiotherapists Lucy Irwin and James Black will be taking part in the Campaspe DASH.

Charmayne Allison

Campers abandon 18 campfires near Cohuna

Eighteen abandoned campfires were found in forests and parks near Cohuna following the Melbourne Cup long weekend.

Ivy Jensen

Moama man conned out of savings gets early Christmas present

AN ECHUCA woman has shown what the true meaning of Christmas is; giving $700 to a Moama man conned out of his savings in an elaborate online scam.

Ivy Jensen

Councils encouraged to apply for sporting infrastructure funding

THE VICTORIAN Government has invited local councils to apply for funding to improve sporting clubs as part of anew $22 million Local Sports Infrastructure Fund. Councils can apply for the funding across five streams including aquatic centres and...

Riverine Herald

Vandals smash windows at two Echuca shops

POLICE are looking for vandals who smashed windows at two Echuca businesses on Friday night. Echuca’s Senior Constable Scott Newton said two males were captured on CCTV walking past COPS (Computer Office Printer Solutions) on Darling St at 10.09pm...

Ivy Jensen

Christmas Cheer returns to bring hope to local families

FOR one little Echuca boy, it seemed like last year’s Christmas would never come. His mum had been torn from him when she was suddenly, tragically, killed in a car accident.

Charmayne Allison

Echuca police call for help after stolen car and trailer dumped

POLICE are appealing for information into the theft of a car and trailer from Echuca on the weekend. Thieves stole a 2009 Nissan Navara and the 6x4 trailer it was towing, while they were parked outside an Eyre St property between 10pm Saturday and...

Ivy Jensen

Stolen car seen in Echuca Kyabram area

ECHUCA and district residents are being urged to keep a lookout for a stolen car.

Ivy Jensen