AUSTRALIA needs a new emergency warning system, the Royal Commission into National Natural Disaster Arrangements has found as it warned about “more frequent and intense” events such as bushfires.

RE-ENTRY into the workforce after maternity leave is continuing to be stymied by high childcare costs and a lack of opportunity for women.

BUILDING better tourism infrastructure and attracting more visitors to Wangaratta city will be a renewed focus if council can secure a slice of $250 million in newly announced regional funding.

VICTORIAN Liberal Senator, Jane Hume, has labelled the Local Power Plan launched last week by Wangaratta-based Indi Independent federal member Helen Haines MP as “backward looking and narrow”.

AFTER 14 days in mandatory lockdown, independent federal member Helen Haines (MHR, Indi) set off for Canberra yesterday with a jam-packed to do list.

A NEW commercial hangar at Wangaratta Aerodrome is up for lease by an aviation related business as part of $739,000 in improvements to the city venue.

CONFUSION still reigns on whether Wangaratta is classified as a border town under the Victoria-NSW state lockdown rules in place since early July. People who work or live in Wangaratta should be able to travel across the border to NSW as it does...

WANGARATTA’S independent and Catholic schools will not take up an early receipt of Federal Government funding which would potentially have seen them re-open to more students earlier than their state school counterparts. The Federal Government this...