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Victoria will receive a drenching ahead of the weekend as a flood warning is issued for parts of the state ...

The river claims the lives of about two Victorians on average each year; a 35-year-old man became the latest drowning victim on Tuesday while swimming near Cobram.

Echucas Joanna Lee is a keen inline skater. Photo: Cath Grey 1 of 1 5370537724001 IF THERES one thing that Echucas Joanna Lee takes with her around the world — its her roller blades. Whether shes in her home country of Poland, Spain or here in Australia, she loves going for a spin on eight wheels. But this love of a seemingly dying craze of the 1930s and 1970s didnt begin when she was a child. “I remember I had moved to Madrid in 2005 and my friend introduced me to the skates,” Mrs Lee s...

A surfer has saved the lives of three children and a father from drowing in two separate incidents in Victoria. Ben Roberts rescued the two different families almost 24 hours apart off Barwon Heads when happened to be passing by at Thirteenth Beach. Today, Mr Roberts noticed a man and his son struggling in hot, difficult conditions. READ MORE: Ben Roberts has been hailed a hero after rescuing multiple people in two separate incidents less than 24 hours apart.(Nine) "There was a son and a dad, t...

Advertisement Three teens were pulled from the water near Apollo Bay, and a beach south-east of Melbourne was evacuated after a shark sighting, but an expected cool change swept through earlier than planned, providing relief for the sweltering city. Melbourne’s temperature dropped from 39.2 to the mid-20s just after noon on Monday, after a fast-moving cool change arrived in metro areas earlier than expected. But fears remain that extreme heat and gusty winds in the state’s north may p...

South-east set to swelter in heatwave fuelled by cyclone brewing off WA ThuThursday 21 updated FriFriday 22 Heatwave conditions are expected for much of southern Australia into next week. ( Print text only Cancel It might have been a relatively mild summer so far, but a hot air mass strengthened by the cyclone brewing off the West Australian coast is set to cause extreme heatwave conditions in the south-east. Key points: The cyclone off the WA coast is in just the right position to compound hea...

NEW SOUTH WALES Photo: Filippo Rivetti/Destination NSW Burbie Camp is the best of both worlds: isolated, and yet accessible. The carpark in this part of the Warrumbungle National Park is 2WD-friendly in all seasons. The site itself is walk-in only, though its just three kilometres along the Burbie Canyon Track, a gentle hike that makes this site a possibility for those who wouldnt normally tackle such an adventure. What youll find at the site is a rustic campground with very few facilities, sav...

Holden Heritage Collection tours Australia Alex Rae Concepts, milestone production cars, engines and memorabilia to be shared amongst museums around Australia. With Holden’s proving grounds at Lang Lang sold off in September, followed by the closure of the Holden Design Centre in October, the next act in General Motors’ dissolution of the Australian carmaker’s assets took place in December with the Holden Heritage Collection sent to more than a dozen museums around the cou...

Turn the Bubble Green: Tindarra Resort back to square one By Anna McGuinness Tindarra Resorts wedding and event manager Emilly Atkinson. Moama businesses are asking the Victorian Government to turn the NSW border regions green. Photo: Cath Grey 1 of 1 5370537724001 2020 WAS a challenging year for Moama’s Tindarra Resort and the latest border closure crushed any hopes of things going back to normal. All accommodation bookings were lost, firstly when COVID-19 restrictions kept people at h...

Advertisement Tourism businesses hit by back-to-back visitor wipeouts during their peak summer seasons require financial assistance to survive with extraordinary run of bad luck of bushfires then coronavirus, according to businesses owners, industry and political representatives. Many towns located within striking distance of the NSW-Victorian border were cleared of tourists by the Black Summer bushfires over the previous summer. And it happened again this summer when the Victorian government t...