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Friday, January 24, 2025

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Quambatook murder arrest

Detectives from the Homicide Squad have arrested a man this morning as part of their investigation into a body located in Quambatook yesterday. A 67-year-old Quambatook man was arrested without incident this morning in the Welshmans Reef area. He...

22 Jan 2025
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Body found in Quambatook

Anyone with information is urged to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or log onto www. crimestoppers. com. au

21 Jan 2025
Police and Courts

Murder charge

A SWAN Hill man has been charged with murder after a fatal attack this month in Golden Square. Emergency services were called about 10am on January 2 to a hotel on High Street. Bendigo artist, Joshua Penny, 34, was treated by paramedics before being...

21 Jan 2025
Police and Courts

Woman charged over unit fire

A WOMAN has been remanded to reappear at the Mildura Magistrate’s Court in April on charges of criminal damage by fire – arson for a fire that engulfed a Makepeace Street unit on Thursday evening. The 31-year-old woman appeared in court on Friday...

21 Jan 2025
Police and Courts

Drivers keep police busy

POLICE have issued a safety warning to motorists after reporting a spate of road offences on Tuesday – including a driver alleged to have been almost four times the legal blood-alcohol limit. According to police, the incidents included...

20 Jan 2025
Police and Courts

Charges for fire

A 31-year-old woman has been charged following a fire in Swan Hill on Thursday. Police and emergency services responded to a unit fire in Makepeace Street about 6.30pm. The unit was unoccupied at the time, and no-one was injured. A woman was...

17 Jan 2025
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SWAN HILL Possible theft: KEYS inadvertently left on a table on the corner of Curlewis and McCrae streets, Swan Hill went missing about 10.30am on Saturday. The victim returned to the location to find that someone had picked them up, but...

17 Jan 2025
Police and Courts

Man jailed for menacing, indecent messaging to girls

A SWAN Hill man who relentlessly sent menacing statements, threats of violence and explicit pictures to three teenage girls has been sentenced in the Mildura County Court. Rhys Wardle, 34, was 27 years old at the time of the offending...

12 Jan 2025
Police and Courts

Youth’s appeal against knife robbery sentence refused

A YOUTH described as the “primary instigator” in an armed robbery of two men while armed with a knife has had her appeal against sentencing refused. In June last year, Olivia Baxter was sentenced to 16 months’ imprisonment each on two counts of armed...

11 Jan 2025
Police and Courts

Life and death knife threat made during attempted robbery

A MAN with a long rap sheet has been jailed after pulling out a knife on a Robinvale bottle shop attendant and saying “this is going to be a life and death situation”.Peter Johnson, 39, plead guilty in the Mildura County Court to one charge of...

11 Jan 2025
News

Road safety a key police priority

VICTORIA Police has vowed to keep road safety a key priority this year after another “devastating” year on the state’s roads. There were 282 lives lost in 2024 compared with 295 in 2023. While the number of lives lost was lower, there was an...

10 Jan 2025
Police and Courts

Boy killed in holiday tragedy

THE Boort district is wrapping its arms around the family of a three-year-old boy killed in a caravan fire last Thursday night. Emergency services were called to Lake View Street shortly before 6pm on January 2 after reports a caravan had caught...

10 Jan 2025
Police and Courts

Police investigate fatal crash

POLICE are trying to piece together what led to a fiery crash in Kerang that killed an elderly passenger. Emergency services were called to the Murray Valley Highway, near Nancarrow Road, about 1pm on Sunday after reports a car had left the road...

10 Jan 2025
Police and Courts

Fire outside hospital

SWAN Hill police are investigating after a bench and bushes were set on fire outside the Swan Hill District Health hospital this week. Police said the fire started about 4.30am on Tuesday by an unknown person. Swan Hill CFA attended the scene and...

10 Jan 2025
Police and Courts

Mystery body

THE identity of a body found in the Loddon River in Kerang remains unknown. The body was found in water off Lower Loddon Road shortly after 4pm on December 22. Police said the cause of death was yet to be determined, and identity of the deceased...

09 Jan 2025
Police and Courts

Lucky escape

SWAN Hill highway patrol are appealing for witnesses to a collision between a truck and utility that left a man with life-threatening injuries in Reedy Lake on Friday morning. It is believed a utility was travelling south on the Murray...

24 Dec 2024
News

Body found in the Loddon

A BODY was found in the Loddon River at Kerang on Saturday afternoon. The grim discovery was made in water off Lower Loddon Road shortly after 4pm. Police on Sunday said the cause of death was yet to be determined, and identify of the deceases...

24 Dec 2024