Echuca, Australia News

Recognising National Palliative Care Week, palliative care staff at Echuca hospital are encouraging community members to come along and talk about end of life care.

Ratepayers in Campaspe Shire can expect an 8.4 per cent rate rise if council's draft budget is adopted.

District residents fed up with delays over the construction of a second Echuca-Moama river crossing are being urged to attend a public rally next month in a ''last gasp'' effort to persuade politicians and authorities that a bridge is needed now.

Police said an accident between a bus and a car happened about 8.30am, when the bus, which was turning right from Pakenham St to High St to pull up outside Echuca Primary School , and a car travelling north along High St, collided.

Staff members from the district's Catholic schools will be among 2000 people at a conference in Bendigo for the next two days Teachers, staff members, school boards, parents, priests, religious orders and parish team members from throughout the diocese will attend the Catholic Education Sandhurst Diocesan Conference tomorrow and Friday.

It is reasonable to assume few 83 year olds were out of their chairs clapping and cheering Monday night's episode of Channel Nine's hit show The Voice .

The property, set on 7765sqm of land and boasting four bedrooms and a private boat ramp, pulled $1.95 million at an Elders Residential auction, eclipsing what is thought to be the town's previous best by nearly $300,000. The property attracted six interested parties and two bidders.

Hundreds of girls, children and even a few blokes donned their best pink outfits and hopped on their bicycles to take part in the annual Girls Ride Out on Sunday.