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.
COVID-19 restrictions on people living in the Rural City of Wangaratta are set to ease from this Sunday under a new roadmap towards ‘COVID Normal’ living.
WANGARATTA-based state MPs Tania Maxwell (MLC, Northern Victoria) and Tim McCurdy (MLA, Ovens Valley) have slammed the 12 month extension of the State of Emergency. Premier Daniel Andrews made the announcement on Monday to make amendments to the...
LIFE could soon return to normal for many families and business owners in the North East affected by the tight border restrictions between Victoria and New South Wales. New South Wales deputy premier John Barilaro yesterday flagged that a return to...
OWNERSHIP of nine Victorian parks and reserves, include Mt Buffalo National Park and part of Alpine National Park, and up to five surplus public land parcels as freehold title have been transferred to the Taungurung Traditional Owner Group.
THE development of the highly anticipated drug and alcohol residential rehabilitation service in Wangaratta is set to commence modular construction by the end of the year.
WANGARATTA residents and employees will be unable to cross the Victorian-NSW border from today, with exemptions to be permitted only under “extremely limited purposes”. The change comes with the scrapping of a 50km border zone rule that had...
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...
THE total number of COVID-19 cases in Victoria is 1605, a net increase of two since yesterday. There have been no new deaths reported and to date, 19 people have died from coronavirus in Victoria. There have been 180 confirmed cases of coronavirus...
PREMIER Daniel Andrews will confirm today and during this week what changes will be made to Victoria wide COVID-19 restrictions people have endured since March 23. It follows a three-step plan announced by Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Friday...
State to shutdown, school holidays tomorrow VICTORIAN school holidays will commence from tomorrow as the state implements a shutdown of all non-essential activity to combat the spread of Coronavirus. Premier Daniel Andrews announced yesterday...
WHILE Galen Catholic College’s application for $5 million in Catholic Education Office funding to build a new double stadium was not successful, the project remains on the school’s radar. The school had lodged an application for funding to...
