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MAMA fundraising group raises $50,0000
THE organisation formerly known as the Friends of the Albury Regional Art Galley has handed over its first instalment of a $50,000 donation to the replacement facility which will be known as Murray Art Museum Albury.
Group members including chairperson Jacinta Mirams presented Albury mayor Kevin Mack and MAMA director Jacqui Hemsley with half the amount raised on Friday with the balance to be paid over three years.
Car veers off road, goes through fence in central Albury
A CAR has slammed through the fence after another crash at a notorious Albury intersection, with a nearby business owner labelling it the worst collision she has seen.
Two cars collided on the corner of Hume Street and Olive Street on Friday night, causing a Holden Commodore to slam through the fence on Olive Street.
Junction Place improvements to kick off shortly
THE Promenade area in Junction Place will be the first upgraded under Wodonga Council’s $10 million federal government funding windfall.
The Promenade is located between the former station building and Goods Shed on the land owned by Places Victoria.
101-0 – so just who can stop the Steamers’ roll?
THE Albury Steamers have put on a rugby clinic in a three-figure demolition of a side many expected to play finals.
At the end of the 80 minutes at Murrayfield on Saturday the scoreline read 101-0 over Wagga Ag College.
The blue and golds backline ran in 14 of the 17 tries as the forward pack dominated at the scrum and breakdown.
Here's a look at what the local weather is doing right now:
► QUEENSLAND: The mother of a Heathcote girl killed in a car crash in Queensland on Friday has described her daughter as full of love and compassion for her friends and family.
Georgia Edsall-French, 15, was killed when the car she was travelling in with her mother and two of her sisters collided head-on with a utility on the Bruce Highway, 10 kilometres south of Bowen on Queensland’s mid-north coast.
► NEWCASTLE, NEW SOUTH WALES: A teenager has been dragged from his car and brutally bashed after accidentally bumping into another vehicle at the Strzelecki lookout on Friday night.
► WARRNAMBOOL, VICTORIA: Widowed father-of-seven Andrew Bruce is hoping he and his family can start a new chapter in their lives when they move home.
The 43-year-old lost his wife Julie in June last year and he now looks after his seven children, who are aged between four and 19 years old.
► WOLLONGONG, NEW SOUTH WALES: A Southern Highlands man jailed for 20 years for sexually abusing his stepchildren for a decade has had his sentence reduced on appeal.
► TASMANIA: The daughter of the victim of a fatal shark attacked witnessed the animal attacking her father according to police.
The man was attacked by a shark early on Saturday morning when he and his daughter had gone recreational scallop fishing on the state's East Coast.
► MELBOURNE: A man who died in Syria fighting against the Islamic State militants has been given an emotional farewell by the Kurdish community in Melbourne.
Reece Harding, 23, from the Gold Coast, was killed last month when he stepped on a landmine.
► MELBOURNE: Nurse Adam Brookman, the first Australian man to return from Islamic State-controlled territory, has been charged with terror-related offences.
► SYDNEY: A push to democratise the selection of Labor's Senate team has been torpedoed at the party's annual conference.
But 150 of about 400 delegates at the party's next national conference will be directly elected, in a concession to party reform advocates that was backed by most of the Left and Right factions.
►UNITED STATES: The circumstances of this week's mass shooting in Lafayette, Louisiana, differ only in the fine details from those other in recent months and years in America.
The gunman was older than most. John Russell Houser, a 59-year-old Alabaman described as a drifter, fired 13 rounds in a cinema, killing Jillian Johnson, 33, and Mayci Breaux, 21, and wounding nine others.
►BEIRUT: Turkey is hardening its stance against Islamic State and Kurdish PKK militants, threatening to launch a third wave of air strikes against positions in Syria and Iraqi Kurdistan after a two-day bombing raid.
►TONGA: It's mid-winter in Tonga, where the temperature has plummeted to a balmy 22 degrees. But Bruno Banani is not bothered as he trains in a T-shirt and shorts in his chosen sport, in a nation mad on playing rugby and little else.
Bruno, 27, is the South Pacific's one and only Winter Olympian. The former computer science student competed in the luge in the 2014 Sochi Games..
Margaret Creighton is living a life many other women wouldn't even dream of. But that life has helped her turn a hobby into a small business.
Ms Creighton, who grew up on Cape Barren Island, spends most of her nights at sea on board the Searoad Tamar. She is a Seafarer Integrated Rating and is the only female on board the ship, which operates between Devonport and Melbourne.
