Local News
20 Oct 09 | MEDICAL experts have warned Mildura residents to protect against skin cancer as they start spending more time outdoors.
20 Oct 09 | RAIL freight opportunities and passenger train feasibility will be issues on the agenda at Thursday’s regional forum between the Department of Transport and Mildura Rural City Council.
20 Oct 09 | THREE potential Wentworth shire councillors attended an information session on Sunday.
20 Oct 09 | CRACK open the bubbly for a day of fashion and fun in Merbein.
19 Oct 09 | MILDURA’S new McDonald’s Restaurant superstore is on track for a pre-Christmas opening.
19 Oct 09 | CONSTRUCTION of Mildura’s Big W store in Fifteenth Street could begin as early as January next year.
19 Oct 09 | A WORLD WAR and then 20 years travelling around Victoria as a minister in the state government weren’t enough to tear Ken and Valma Wright apart.
19 Oct 09 | Another chance to
muddy the waters
It is no surprise that tourism people in Sunraysia are all for a casino to be built here.
19 Oct 09 | TODAY marks the centenary of the electricity being switched on in Mildura.
19 Oct 09 | HOPES are high for progress on Mildura’s passenger rail to be announced when State Government and council representatives meet in Ouyen on Thursday.
19 Oct 09 | STRONG patronage at the Mildura Show has ensured that next year’s event will return with all its regular features.
17 Oct 09 | Carers need our
help too
October is Anxiety and Depression Awareness (ADA) month – a time when we ask people to put ADA on their radar and to raise awareness of these illnesses and reduce stigma.
17 Oct 09 | COLOURFUL clowns, painted faces and miles of smiles could be seen at the showgrounds yesterday.
17 Oct 09 | THE oven gloves were on as six Sunraysia Daily staff tested their culinary skills at this year’s Mildura Show.
The challenge was to create a cake – not packet mix –and ice it.
17 Oct 09 | Christmas is coming early to Sunraysia with 100s of jobs set to be delivered by an a new mine near Wentworth.
17 Oct 09 | RESIDENTS near the corner of 15th Street and Ontario Avenue are enjoying the respite from hoons and are not worried by slow progress on the new roundabout at the intersection.
17 Oct 09 | COMMUNITY support is looming as the only impediment standing in the way of a casino in Mildura.
17 Oct 09 | BEING a role model for Sunraysia’s youth is foremost on the agenda of newly crowned Miss Mildura Country Show Girl, Sharee Wright.
16 Oct 09 | MILDURA Base Hospital’s patient waiting list is shorter than the state average, a new report shows.
But there is concern from community leaders that continuous growth will exhaust the facilities of the hospital.
16 Oct 09 | SUNRAYSIA irrigators vaulted past last season’s record low water allocation of 35 per cent yesterday when Goulburn-Murray Water announced a further eight per cent boost to their high-security water entitlements.