Shepparton, Australia News

Pop goes the industry: Italian processed tomatoes now outsell their Australian competition by a ratio of four cans to one.

Pop goes the industry: Italian processed tomatoes now outsell their Australian competition by a ratio of four cans to one.

Ambulances are being left unmanned in Shepparton and the union says it's only a matter of time before someone dies.

Rallying behind one of Cancer Council Australia's largest fundraising efforts, Tatura Hotel will host an Australia's Biggest Morning Tea event on Sunday.

Tatura and district residents are facing a 5.95 per cent increase in rates in 2012-13 after Greater Shepparton City Council voted to adopt its draft budget at last Tuesday's meeting.

Owner Jim Andreadis said with the co-operation of the SPC Ardmona cannery 25 semi-trailer loads of stock were shipped into the temporary store at Melbourne Showgrounds.

It's all hands on deck as school students are rowing on Victoria Park Lake for the first time in 16 years.

The ladies of the Undera Uniting Church have joined dozens of Shepparton organisations and groups that will put on a Biggest Morning Tea this month to raise money for cancer research.

Tatura's Victory Hall and Mechanics Institue are amongst sites proposed for inclusion in an amemdment to Greater Shepparton City Council's heritage overlay.

A seven-year-old girl injured in a collision between a school bus and a fuel tanker at St Germains last Thursday remains in a serious condition in a Melbourne hospital.

What started as Tatura Male Choir in 1944 has changed over the years; a ladies' chorus joined the ranks in 1948, and concerts, recitals, musicals and operettas were the types of entertainment provided by 1968.

The Red Shield Appeal is later this month and Lieutenant Andrew Stringer said it raised vital funds for a range of projects and services.

A treasure trove of historical photographs and documents connected to Shepparton, Mooroopna, Orrvale and Zeerust has turned up at a charity store in Queensland.

Mr Power spoke to The News to show his support for the push to get a two-person Mobile Intensive Care Ambulance unit to the Shepparton area.

Police have issued a scam warning after a 61-year-old Tatura man was charged with more than 100 deception offences.

O PERA singer Deborah Cheetham stands up at the cafe table to make her point: "I'm actually not that tall," she says, "and I'm Aboriginal." OK, so that explains the name of her three-year-old Melbourne company for indigenous singers: Short Black Opera.

Member for Shepparton Jeanette Powell welcomed the Victorian Government's investment in state-of-the-art replacement medical equipment for Goulburn Valley Health, which was announced recently by the Minster for Health David Davis.

A Euroa man in his 50s died yesterday when his car hit a tree on Shepparton-Euroa Rd at Miepoll.

A Shepparton man who accidentally drove his friend's car into the Goulburn River with two female friends on board allegedly blew three times the legal blood alcohol limit.