Echuca News

Save the next dance for 2020

ECHUCA Dance Group has been grooving its way through the twin towns for almost 20 years — on top of raising valuable funding for local charities. And although the hip shaking group is finished for the year — and had more than 70 people turn up...

Ari Balle-Bowness

Dancers step up to help open doors

ECHUCA’S Dance Group have put their best their best feet forward, donating $2000 to the Community Living and Respite Service’s latest Opening Doors Project. Dancing their way to support the new Maiden St home in Moama, for people with...

Ari Balle-Bowness

Dancers step up to help open doors

Ari Balle-Bowness

At Nook on High street you can haveyour cake and eat it too.

BREAKFAST at Tiffany’s may be impossible, but at Nook on High you can have your cake and eat it too – and buy a cake plate while you’re there. The cafe´ and homeware store on High St has been the go-to place for the past five years and it’s...

Riverine Herald

Pool to shut and there’s new laws for your pool

ECHUCA War Memorial Aquatic Centre will be closed in January for repairs and upgrades and new Victorian laws regarding backyard pools and spas are now also in effect. Campaspe Shire mayor Adrian Weston said works to replace the ceiling at EWMAC are...

Riverine Herald

NAPLAN changes might be coming

THE Victorian, New South Wales, Queensland and ACT governments have released the interim report for their independent joint review of NAPLAN and they’ve found changes need to be made. The report sets out the major issues with the test as...

Alex Gretgrix

CFA brigades thank Echuca High Street Corner Store

WHEN firefighters raced off to fight the blazes in Strathallan and Nanneella during our Code Red fire day, Echuca’s Colleen Forster knew she had to do something. So the owner of High St Corner Store and her staff prepared enough food and drinks to...

Ivy Jensen

11 hours ago

Take a letter, Santa

ONE man might be getting ready for his busiest season, but he still had time to call on local schoolchildren to get their lists to the North Pole as soon as possible. And he has enlisted help from the Echuca Lions Club to collect his letters from...

Riverine Herald

12 hours ago

Members of Moama Fire and Rescue battled the Myall Creek Bushfrie

MORE than 114,000ha was burnt out during the Myall Creek bushfires in NSW. The blazes are now under control – and that’s thanks to countless firefighters, from NSW and from around the country. Including Phil Masters, Andrew Heriot and Cam...

Ivy Jensen

14 hours ago

People power starts to turn back the tide

IT HAS been just on a week since thousands of southern basin irrigators, farmers and community members descended on Canberra to voice their anger and concern over the failings of the MurrayDarling Basin Plan.

Sophie Baldwin

Charges laid over Leitchville work death

WORKSAFE has charged a Cobram engineering company, a Bendigo crane hire company and a New Zealand engineer following the death of a worker at a decommissioned cheese factory in Leitchville, near Echuca. A 59-year-old man was killed and another man...

Riverine Herald

Euthanasia hoax a complete success

A MARKETING ploy threatening to have horses euthanised at the Echuca saleyards, was smashed online late last week — and the man behind the hoax couldn’t be happier.

Daneka Hill

Echuca thieves break into car

POLICE are appealing for information after a car was broken into in Echuca overnight Thursday. Echuca’s Senior Constable Scott Newton said thieves broke into the locked Toyota Hilux ute through a canopy and stole a nail gun and vaccum cleaner...

Ivy Jensen

The Lead

The Lead - December 8

Students from St Joseph’s College have made it their mission to help others by creating projects that they believe will benefit the community

Riverine Herald

08 Dec 2019

The Lead

The Lead - December 7

Echuca Fire Brigade and Deakin Group presented a certificate of appreciation to the High Street South Corner Store to thank them for the store’s generosity during the recent Code Red fire day

Riverine Herald

07 Dec 2019

Card back safe with humanity loaded on it

AN ECHUCA man has had his faith in humanity restored after his lost credit card was returned safe and sound recently. After having lunch in High St and venturing around the Port area with his father, Ken didn’t even realise he’d lost the card until...

Alex Gretgrix

06 Dec 2019