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Killer driver released on new charges

CARDROSS killer driver Thomas Graham Towle has avoided more time behind bars for driving unlicensed while high on drugs despite police arguing that a term of imprisonment was warranted. Towle, 53, was this week given a 12-month community corrections...

6 hours ago

Basketball

Hard roadtrip sparks talk of rebuild

MILDURA Heat women’s Division One coach James Madigan could see this coming in Big V season 2025, maybe just not this soon. Not a total rebuild, but a build for the team which regularly makes finals in the tough competition. A lack of...

6 hours ago

Netball

SFNL Junior netball (26-4-2025) - gallery

SFNL Junior Netball gallery

7 hours ago

News

Writers Festival pens new chapter

THE 2025 Mildura Writers Festival will be the last delivered in partnership with Arts Mildura Inc. From next year, the festival is seeking to create an independent incorporated body, outside of the Arts Mildura umbrella. Mildura Writer’s Festival...

6 hours ago

Arts & Entertainment

Exploring moments one step at a time

SYDNEY Dance Company will be bringing momenta, a full-length work by artistic director Rafael Bonachela to Mildura next week as part of a national tour. Dancer Morgan Hurrell said the one-act piece was about a journey of intertwining energy and...

6 hours ago

News

Home is where the secondhand books are

A MERBEIN couple have transformed part of their house into a secondhand bookstore. Kevin and Suzy Buck began their operation to save books from going to landfill, becoming a regular staple at the Merbein market before it became too difficult to cart...

14 hours ago

Community

Guts, grit and a great scholarship

TWO Sunraysia students will walk the historic Kokoda Trail later this year as recipients of the newly established Farnsworth Lochhead Lowe Scholarship. Hannah Saunders and Rhiannon Jack were announced as the inaugural recipients of the scholarship on...

14 hours ago

News

Calls to close the gap on Indigenous employment

THE head of the Dareton Local Aboriginal Land Council (DLALC) says cross border and boundary issues involving the training and employment of Aboriginal people remain unaddressed. DLALC chief executive and Wentworth/Dareton Community Working Party...

14 hours ago

Police & Courts

Man fined after ‘looking for trouble’

A MILDURA man who claims to have mistaken a police vehicle for a taxi after a drunken night out before repeatedly refusing police requests to move on was looking for trouble and found it, a court has been told. The Mildura Magistrates’ Court was told...

29 Apr 2025

Football

Bambill get on the board for first win

REIGNING Millewa Football Netball League senior premiers Bambill got their season off the mark, but not without a late scare, at Mildura Senior College on Saturday. The Saints led by 32 points at the first break and it seemed like normal...

29 Apr 2025

Digital Editions

Sunraysia Daily - Tuesday, April 29, 2025

29 Apr 2025

News

Game changing transport strategy has wheels

MILDURA Council has endorsed a “game changing” strategy that aims to guide the city’s growth and development to 2050 and beyond. The Mildura Integrated Transport and Land Use Strategy looks at how the transport network can better serve current and...

29 Apr 2025

Community

Army cadets on parade

MEMBERS of the 311 Army Cadet Unit in Mildura had a busy Anzac Day morning, participating in parades in both Red Cliffs and Mildura. Cadets showcased their discipline in marches and by taking positions around the cenotaph during the Red Cliffs...

29 Apr 2025

Community

First Anzac service for Werrimull

WERRIMULL commemorated Anzac Day in style with a large crowd attending the town’s first ever Dawn Service followed by a march from the Werrimull Hotel to the memorial on the outskirts of town. The events were organised by the Millewa Advisory Group...

29 Apr 2025

Basketball

Heat name replacement import

WELL, that was quick. A little more than a week after the shock departure of import Sam Finley and the Heat Division Two men’s team’s new recruit was at the Hothouse. Nikhil Peters, a 6’ 4” point guard who hails from San Francisco, had been...

29 Apr 2025

Football

Irymple get result from hard slog

THE Magpies may be atop the AFL ladder but the local Merbein team are still finding their wings in 2025. They started well in the first quarter with senior player Kyle Stevens playing his 100th game. Michael Hooker on the half back flank got a few...

28 Apr 2025