Mildura News

Ian Linklater's wheat crop in the red, loamy soils of Gol Gol. In this break-your-heart farming land near the Murray River, north of Mildura, the enemies are drought, nutrient depletion, salt and rising farming costs. The battle's unlikely heroes are...

Country Fire Authority spokesman Lachlan Quick said October 28 marked the end of a 100-day countdown designed to raise awareness about being prepared for the bushfire season. "We are trying to get people to prepare their homes and their businesses...

S Court of Appeal has increased the sentence of a man who broke into the home of a heavily pregnant woman and raped her, finding the original jail term was so inadequate it would ''shock'' the public. Rodney Daryl Moore,...

S most dysfunctional union has hit another low, with revelations of a 2001 claim of sexual harassment against one of the men seeking to become its leader...The union's former assistant secretary, Robert McCubbin, told The Sunday Age the case had...

It is turning into a bumper year for books about crooks, with Mick Gatto , Roberta Williams and Roger Rogerson so far scribbling memoirs...The ex-wife of convicted murderer Neddy Smith was moved to call into Alan Jones's breakfast program on...

The scammers claim to be selling the digital television equipment to help vulnerable householders prepare for when Australia turns off the analogue network. They often pose as Government employees or telecommunications representatives. They have targeted groups such as pensioners living...

Grave fears are held for Pardeep Kumar, a 33-year-old harvest worker, who was last seen at the Mildura library about 5pm on September 22. His unlocked blue Holden Commodore was found two days later outside Mildura railway station with his...