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Allan Murphy

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

Dry and warmer start to 2025

MILDURA has received less than a third of its usual amount of rainfall in the first half of this year amid calls for the Victorian Government to do more to assist ailing farmers. Just over 40 millimetres of rain has fallen across the region in the...

12 hours ago

Police & Courts

Vandal’s close jail call

A TEENAGER tagged property belonging to the Office of Corrections within an hour of being handed a good behaviour bond on multiple counts of damaging property by spray painting his mark on Mildura houses, a court has been told. The accused had just...

05 Jul 2025

Police & Courts

Female thug ‘close’ to a lost cause

A WOMAN who stole alcohol from a Mildura convenience store before inflicting potentially life-long injuries to a female staff member who tried to retrieve the goods has been jailed. The Mildura Magistrates’ Court heard 38-year-old Jade Maddigan had...

05 Jul 2025

Police & Courts

Bail refused for ‘raging’ meth user

A MILDURA man who relapsed back into “pretty alarming” drug use returned to theft and dishonesty offending as a result, a court has been told. The Mildura Magistrates’ Court heard that while Jackson Rose had 22 pages of prior criminal history, he had...

05 Jul 2025

Police & Courts

Police seek wanted people

CRIME Stoppers has delivered six wanted blitzes so far this year and Victoria Police is seeking information about a series of wanted people on warrant in the Mildura, Melton, Casey, Frankston, Greater Shepparton and Geelong areas. If anyone has...

04 Jul 2025

News

Pressures face council budget

MILDURA Rural City Council will be forced to cut services unless State and Federal Governments step in and give country councils a “fair go”, councillors have been told. Councillors this week formally adopted the 2025-26 draft budget with an average...

04 Jul 2025

News

Cupper seeks better deal for regions

MILDURA Rural City Council’s inaugural financial sustainability portfolio councillor admits there is no silver bullet to resolving the “chronic inequity” between regional and metropolitan councils. Cr Ali Cupper was this week appointed as the primary...

04 Jul 2025

News

Trees facing the chop

MILDURA Rural City Council will take on the city’s plane tree damage conundrum one tree at a time. Rather than throwing a blanket decision across all 43 problematic plane trees in Plane Tree Drive and Josie Court, the council this week agreed to take...

04 Jul 2025

Police & Courts

Police officer struck by car

A DISQUALIFIED driver alleged to have been behind the wheel of an unregistered car while drug affected when it struck a police officer has had an application for bail refused. Twenty-five-year-old Tyler Chambers was allegedly trying to evade police...

04 Jul 2025

News

Bring on the safety upgrades

PLANNED traffic lights at the notorious Deakin Avenue and Sixteenth Street intersection cannot come fast enough after the black spot hazard was the scene of yet another accident just as children were arriving at school on Thursday morning. This time...

04 Jul 2025

Police & Courts

Serial thief back behind bars

A SERIAL thief who was released from custody on appeal bail just days before committing multiple counts of similar offending is back behind bars. Zeynel Ayhan admitted filling shopping trolleys with thousands of dollars worth of goods and leaving, or...

03 Jul 2025

News

Shire loses a man of passion

WENTWORTH Shire Council has announced “with great sadness” the death of former mayor and sitting councillor Tim Elstone. Acting Mayor Cr Peter Crisp issued a formal statement this week lauding Cr Elstone as a dedicated councillor, family man and...

02 Jul 2025