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Allan Murphy

Allan is a senior journalist at Sunraysia Daily. Email [email protected] to get in touch.

Winter warning on burns danger

AMBULANCE Victoria is reminding residents in the Loddon Mallee seeking comfort from winter chills to take simple measures to significantly reduce the risk of burn injuries in high-risk places such as kitchens, bathrooms, around heaters and...

6 hours ago

Police & Courts

Police seek missing woman

POLICE are looking for a missing woman who often frequents the Mildura area. Thirty-five-year-old Margaret was last seen in the Glenroy area earlier this month, although the exact date is unknown. It is also unknown what Margaret was last seen...

19 Aug 2025

Police & Courts

Man admits setting fatal house fire alight

A MAN has admitted to setting a Red Cliffs house on fire which claimed the life of a resident in February 2023. David Cartledge, 38, who lived at the Indi Avenue property with three other men including the deceased, was initially charged with murder...

18 Aug 2025

Police & Courts

Man avoids jail over order breach

A MILDURA man previously jailed for breaching court-imposed orders has appeared in court admitting the same offending as well as dealing with some dodgy $50 notes. The Mildura Magistrates’ Court heard the 55-year-old had been in an on-again...

18 Aug 2025

Business

$1m fine for grape exporter

A EUSTON-based grape export company has been fined more than $1 million for deliberately trying to bypass controls to export table grapes to New Zealand. The Grape House Pty Ltd pleaded guilty to six counts of making false representations with the...

17 Aug 2025

News

Planning umpire lays down the law

VICTORIA’S planning umpire has intervened in a dispute about the operational conditions of a rural worker accommodation facility in the centre of Red Cliffs that allows for the provision of more than 100 residents. Planning permit holder Hotham Creek...

16 Aug 2025

Police & Courts

Young man must ‘join dots’ and not re-offend

A MILDURA man who repeatedly breached conditions of bail by reoffending has been told it’s time to “join the dots” before again being released from custody over yet another vehicle theft. The Mildura Magistrates’ Court heard 21-year-old Jessie...

16 Aug 2025

Police & Courts

Bail denied in alleged armed robbery case

A MILDURA man alleged to have been armed with an axe during a violent armed robbery, when a co-accused allegedly assaulted the victim with a cricket bat, has been refused bail. The Mildura Magistrates’ Court was told 28-year-old Shane Kirby and...

16 Aug 2025

Police & Courts

No charges over intersection fatal

POLICE have yet to lay any charges following the death of a pedestrian who was struck by a vehicle at the intersection of Fifteenth Street and San Mateo Avenue on Thursday evening. Mildura Highway Patrol officers are continuing to investigate the...

15 Aug 2025

Police & Courts

Bike theft accused avoids jail

A MAN who admitted his role in the theft of three dirt bikes from a Mildura motorcycle repair shop has been warned he will spend the best years of his life in jail if he fails to curb his ways. Following an extensive investigation by...

15 Aug 2025

News

Pedestrian killed at intersection

MILDURA Highway Patrol officers are investigating a fatal collision in Mildura on Thursday evening. Emergency services were called to reports a pedestrian had been struck by a vehicle at the intersection of Fifteenth Street and San Mateo Avenue about...

15 Aug 2025

Police & Courts

Mum at a loss over son’s attack

A MOTHER has been left thanking her lucky stars that her only child was not seriously hurt or even worse when he was coward punched after trying to diffuse an altercation between a male and female in the Mildura CBD at the weekend. The mum feared the...

15 Aug 2025