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Allan Murphy

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

Homeless man refused bail

A HOMELESS young man alleged to have sexually assaulted a stranger while she was doing her gardening has been refused bail after a magistrate described him as being a “completely unacceptable” risk to the community. Nineteen-year-old Kody Glover...

13 hours ago

Police & Courts

VIPER taskforce targets outlaw bikies and organised crime

POLICE have arrested 20 people and laid 42 charges during a major operation targeting outlaw motorcycle gangs and organised criminal entities across north-west Victoria. The operation – which ran from Monday to Friday this week – saw...

18 May 2025

News

Call for council to act on hotel

SWAN Hill Rural City Council has been urged to purchase the nine blocks of land that make up the fire-ravaged Robinvale Hotel site and explore opportunities for redevelopment. The 194 signatories of a petition encouraging council to consider the...

17 May 2025

Police & Courts

Bail refused for meth addict

AN habitual methamphetamine user accused of breaking into motel rooms to steal a television and credit cards which he used to purchase gold jewellery and cologne has been refused bail over concerns that he will reoffend. Police opposed an application...

16 May 2025

Police & Courts

Tech catches up on woman

TECHNOLOGY has outsmarted a Red Cliffs woman who tried to steal about $4000 worth of goods from her neighbour. The Mildura Magistrates’ Court heard Jessica Pascoe entered her neighbour’s address about 5am on October 28 last year and gained access to...

16 May 2025

Health

Nursing excellence recognised

WENTWORTH Health Service has been awarded the Far West Local Health District “Team of the Year” in the Excellence in Nursing and Midwifery awards for 2025. The acknowledgment -- awarded as part of local celebrations for International Nurses Day (May...

16 May 2025

Education

Perkins a winner at Werrimull

MOTOR racing legend Larry Perkins proved a winner at Werrimull P-12 School this week. Students and teachers were mesmerised as he talked about his life as one of Australia’s greatest ever racing car drivers, from humble beginnings at Cowangie, west...

16 May 2025

Police & Courts

Son made mum’s life a ‘nightmare’

A MAN who inflicted “immeasurable” trauma on his mother and turned her life into a “nightmare” was an example of how methamphetamine can destroy a person’s brain, a court has been told. The Mildura man this week pleaded guilty to a number of assaults...

16 May 2025

News

Police focus on road safety

MILDURA police say they will continue to be highly visible and enforcing across the region’s roads in an effort to drive down road trauma. Police detected two motorists travelling at excessive speed earlier this week as part of a statewide operation...

16 May 2025

Police & Courts

Jail over domestic violence

THE victim of serious domestic violence says she has come to accept her former partner will one day kill her once he is released from a four-month term of imprisonment for recklessly causing injury to her. The Mildura Magistrates’ Court the woman had...

15 May 2025

Police & Courts

Shoplifter jailed ... again, after no more options

A METH user has been jailed for repeatedly stealing from shops after a magistrate lamented he had run out of other options of punishment. Thirty-five-year-old Lisa Stone admitted numerous thefts from Mildura’s Coles supermarket soon after her release...

14 May 2025

News

‘Despicable’ messages lead man to jail

A MAN who bombarded his former partner with more than 100 messages in days including “appalling” and “despicable” language and images from cameras he installed in the woman’s bedroom has been jailed. The Mildura Magistrates’ Court heard the...

14 May 2025