Shepparton, Australia News

Staff members from 18 Woolworths-owned stores across north-east Victoria raised funds and awareness for the ''Don't Txt-n-Drive'' campaign started by Mulwala's Vicki Richardson after her 20-year-old daughter Brooke died when her car hit a tree near Cobram in December last year.

The BJFL's under-12, 13, 14, 15 and 16 teams and the youth girls squad will play in a junior carnival at Moama on Sunday.

VICTORIA Police internal "spy catchers" are set to investigate officers suspected of corrupt or improper relationships with outlaw motorcycle gangs in the Goulburn Valley.

Tatura's popular Rotary Art Show is set to return this year on the Queen's Birthday long weekend from Friday, June 7, to Monday, June 10.

The Benalla community is feeling the pinch at the pump, with petrol prices currently up to 17A /litre higher in the Rose City than in surrounding towns.

Women dressed in their finery made their way to the Cobram racecourse last week for the Community Pink Ribbon Ladies Day at the Trots in support of the McGrath Foundation.

It has provided urgent emergency care and sub-acute services from temporary relocatable buildings located on the original car park since the floods.

Council resolved in November last year to commission a report into council-managed toilets in Greater Shepparton and hopes to have a draft Public Toilet Policy ready in June 2013.

The fortunes of SPC Ardmona will lie with government support on trade issues, Australian supermarkets and Australian consumers, managing director Peter Kelly has told Country News.

About 1000 SPC Ardmona workers, orchardists, politicians and community members attended a rally at Shepparton Showgrounds last Thursday to support local fruit growers and processors.

The congregation of St Augustine's Anglican Church has farewelled Canon Andrew Neaum, who has retired after a decade at the church.

Mrs Cooper has worked as a community educator for 21 years and has now been recognised for her work by the association.

The country's peak apple and pear body is reminding consumers to buy local or risk losing Australian products from supermarket shelves.

Two men were arrested this morning over an incident in Girgarre in December and will appear at Shepparton Magistrates' Court this afternoon.

The former Goulburn and Ovens Institute of TAFE student was recently named joint student of the year at a ceremony in Shepparton.

BALLARAT is well represented in the Under-18 Youth Girls National AFL Championships at Shepparton this week, with six Ballarat locals playing for the undefeated Victoria Country/Tasmania team.

An overwhelming majority of Australians believe the Federal Government should act without delay and add a new prostate cancer medicine to the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme.

Shepparton Police and Country Fire Authority investigators are looking into the cause of a fire that gutted a Shepparton home on Saturday night.

More than 74 years after Aboriginal people began living on ''The Flats'' between Shepparton and Mooroopna, their story is finally being told in signage along a 4.3 Yorta Yorta Nation Aboriginal Corporation board member Neville Atkinson welcomed the project at yesterday's launch, saying it was ''a long time coming''. ''The lights are going on now ... (more)

Shepparton Girl Guides' leader-in-charge Lyn Ford said the sleep-over event had been going for more than 20 years and included girls aged between five and 17 years from across the region.