23/07/2008 | WEST Wimmera Shire Council has launched an investigation into the lack of public transport in the shire.
Chief executive Jim McKay said no town had public transport.
"There is none whatsoever, n...
23/07/2008 | WIMMERA owner-drivers will join truck drivers from western Victoria at an information session in Haven on Friday to discuss an industry shut down.
The Australian Long Distance Owners and Drivers Ass...
23/07/2008 | AN INTERNATIONAL investigation into alleged paedophile activity in an internet chat room ended in Horsham.
An American teenage girl lodged complaints with American police about comments she receiv...
23/07/2008 | THE management of Johnson Asahi met with employees yesterday morning to offer them job surety.
General manager Jack Johnson said most of the 20 employees of the hay exporter business would be move...
23/07/2008 | MEMBER for Lowan Hugh Delahunty has described his Kokoda Track trek as a life-changing experience.
The Kokoda Track has remained famous for the Second World War heroics of the Fuzzy Wuzzy Angels w...
23/07/2008 | WIMMERA drink drivers travelling on remote roads and in towns will have nowhere to hide if Horsham Traffic Management Unit is successful in a funding application.
Horsham TMU's Sergeant Wayne Ca...
23/07/2008 | HINDMARSH Shire councillors have expressed their concern over the number of people requiring drought assistance in shire towns.
Cr Darryl Argall and Cr Joan Bennett voiced their concerns for resid...
23/07/2008 | THE Region 17 Country Fire Authority operations team swept into an incident action plan on Monday morning to cope with the fire at Johnson Asahi.
More than 35 firefighters were called out to the lar...
23/07/2008 | INVESTIGATORS are treating a fire that destroyed at least $1.5 million of hay and equipment at a Horsham business on Monday as suspicious.
The fire at Johnson Asahi began on Monday at 3am and has bu...
18/07/2008 | A MOTHER who used cannabis to treat her children's medical problems was convicted and fined $600 at Horsham Magistrate's Court on Wednesday.
The Wimmera woman, aged in her 40s, pleaded guilt...
18/07/2008 | HORSHAM police have charged two Horsham youths with arson after attacks on two Horsham houses in a Dimboola Road development site.
Detective Senior Constable Neil Roberts said police charged a Horsh...
18/07/2008 | HORSHAM youths are taking part in a new `sex texting' trend sweeping Australia.
Horsham police have warned child pornography is prevalent in the Wimmera.
Police are investigating Wimmera base...
18/07/2008 | BARENGI Gadjin Land Council and GWMWater representatives inspected a disturbed Aboriginal heritage site in Minyip on Wednesday.
Aboriginal Affairs Victoria is investigating an incident which saw a...
18/07/2008 | MEMBER for Mallee John Forrest has continued to play down a review into the Nationals' future despite growing talk of party disarray.
Mr Forrest lashed out at national media for publicising rumo...
18/07/2008 | THE FEDERAL Government's emissions trading green paper has set a 2015 target date to include agriculture emissions in the scheme.
Birchip Cropping Group chairman Ian McClelland said although a...
18/07/2008 | HORSHAM Centre Cinemas staff have been keeping a close eye on patrons since the new Batman movie The Dark Knight opened on Wednesday.
Village Roadshow has supplied all Australian cinemas screening t...
18/07/2008 | A TRUCK driver jailed after causing a fatal collision in Lawloit in 2006 was convicted of 39 driving-related offences.
Gregory Allen Abrahams, 34, formerly of Shellharbour, New South Wales, was fi...
16/07/2008 | TEENAGE Natimuk footballer Bryce Hateley was progressing well after a three-hour operation to repair fractured vertebrae in his neck at the Austin Hospital in Melbourne yesterday.
Hateley, 17, fract...
16/07/2008 | MITCHELL Water will pay staff a full wage despite a work ban on Wimmera- Mallee Pipeline's supply systems three and four.
Work stopped on this part of the pipeline after contractors discovered t...
16/07/2008 | ARARAT police arrested 12 people after a series of drug raids in the city last week.
Ararat police Senior Constable Liam McMahon said the operation brought several investigations to a close.
"Th...