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Council says help needed with assets investment
The Yarriambiack Shire's chief executive says the council will need help to keep up with the need to spend money on its assets.[MORE]
Woman avoids jail for stealing from employer
A Warracknabeal woman has successfully appealed against being sent to jail for stealing more than $60,000 from her employer.[MORE]
Clyne Foods to begin $3m expansion
A Wimmera-Mallee dried fruit processor is about to start a $3 million expansion of its operations.[MORE]
Track plans boost miner's mineral sands hopes
A mining company says its hopes of using rail to transport mineral sands from the Mallee to south-west Victoria will be boosted by a planned track upgrade.[MORE]
Court jails Wimmera vandal
A Warracknabeal man has been sentenced to jail over a series of vandalism attacks and a theft in the Wimmera.[MORE]
Dry, warmer September for Wimmera-Mallee
September failed to deliver crucially important rain to the Wimmera-Mallee.[MORE]
Warracknabeal track showing signs of salinity recovery
Warracknabeal's last scheduled horse racing meeting for the year is being transferred as the local track continues to battle salinity problems.[MORE]
Wimmera councils get road upgrade report
Wimmera councils have received a consultant's report outlining the cost of upgrading local roads if rail freight services are lost to parts of the region.[MORE]
Aged care patients on the move
Health officials say aged care patients have made a trouble free move into a Wimmera hospital's new wing.[MORE]
Warracknabeal racecourse still unfit for racing
The immediate future of horse racing in a Wimmera town is in doubt because of the local track's condition.[MORE]
Grain grower concern over Mallee rail services
A southern Mallee grain grower says it will take 160 semi-trailer loads to move an average sized harvest from his farm if rail services are not available.[MORE]
Group says rail freight service access reduced
The Wimmera Regional Transport Group says farmers north of Warracknabeal on the Hopetoun train line will not have access to rail freight services for the coming harvest.[MORE]
Court jails ex-Wimmera man for child sex offences
A former Wimmera man has been given a three-year jail term for a series of child sex offences.[MORE]
MP calls for Hindmarsh Shire road upgrades
The Member for Lowan, Hugh Delahunty, is calling on the Victorian Government to put money from its special purpose payments fund into road upgrades in the Hindmarsh Shire.[MORE]
Halfway mark for Wimmera-Mallee pipeline
The huge construction task for the Wimmera-Mallee pipeline has reached the halfway mark.[MORE]
Council sceptical about Nick Cave statue plans
A shire in western Victoria's Wimmera-Mallee says it thinks plans for Warracknabeal to host a statue of one of its most well-known exports are dubious.[MORE]
WorkSafe probes truckie death
WorkSafe Victoria is investigating the death of a Wimmera man in Melbourne.[MORE]
Warracknabeal man to face child sex charges
A man is due to face court in the Wimmera today on child sex charges, after being extradited from Western Australia last week.[MORE]
Probe continues into suspicious Wimmera house blaze
The cause of a fire that destroyed a house in the Wimmera yesterday remains under suspicion.[MORE]
Warracknabeal house blaze considered suspicious
Police say they are treating an overnight house fire in the Wimmera as suspicious.[MORE]
Woman arrested after Horsham car chase
Police say they abandoned a car chase on Monday night minutes after it began in Horsham.[MORE]
Wimmera-Mallee summer ends on dry note
Western Victoria's Wimmera-Mallee generally delivered average or above average rainfalls in December and January, but that trend was reversed in February.[MORE]
Arson squad probes Wimmera fires
The arson squad has joined an investigation into a series of fires in the Wimmera.[MORE]
Yarriambiack Mayor plays down finance concerns
A Wimmera-Mallee Mayor in western Victoria says his shire's finances are stable, despite concern about the municipality's sustainability.[MORE]
Police investigate car break-ins
Police are investigating a series of car break-ins in the one Wimmera street.[MORE]
