News
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Study funded for best freight network
A ROAD freight study will help Swan Hill and Gannawarra councils identify infrastructure constraints on the local road network. Minister for Ports and Freight Melissa…
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Regional NSW goes into seven-day snap lockdown
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian was “extremely concerned” as the state’s Covid outbreak took a worrying turn on Saturday, with 466 new positive infections. What the…
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Upper Murray holds out on flows to save river system
THERE is growing frustration in Lower Murray communities as natural high flows in the Murray over consecutive years fail to breach banks and wet the…
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Letters to the Editor August 13
Support for Flying School I WOULD like to congratulate Nicholas Christie for bringing his Sport Aircraft Academy to Swan Hill. I hope everything goes well,…
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Vale Jill Pattenden
Jill Pattenden May 21, 1936 – July 28, 2021 IT would be hard to find someone in the Swan Hill region who hasn’t been impacted…
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Local submission for commission into war vet suicides
IN a year’s time, war veterans in the Swan Hill region will learn the outcome of a Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide. The…
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Neighbourly support for regional communities
NEIGHBOURHOOD Houses are celebrating some of their good work during this pandemic, hosting a mini-conference for the public in the space of housing, sustainability, and…
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Healthy Rivers Program pours funding into Basin communities
BASIN communities and farmers are big winners under the first round of the Federal government’s $20 million Murray-Darling Healthy Rivers Program. Seventy-three grants are being…
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Commonwealth Bank hours to change in Robinvale
BANNERTON resident Jade Benham says the miscount of Robinvale’s population in the 2016 Census is causing the shutdown of businesses in the town. This comes…
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Permits mandatory for cross-border residents
SWAN Hill and District residents will now need to obtain a permit to cross between Victoria and NSW from 6pm on Friday. In extending the…










