Rutherglen 14 and Wangaratta, Beechworth, Corryong and Benalla 13.

Falls Creek 7, Mount Hotham and Mount Buller 5.

A drug dealing ice addict who shot his friend with a toy gun modified into a firearm capable of using live ammo has been jailed. Read more.

A Disqualified driver who crashed his car into a tree spun a wild story to police about being kidnapped as he slept in the back of the vehicle. Read more.

The scholarship fund set up in the name of former CSU student Jess McLennan has reached $2000. Read more.

The ugly dispute between firefighters and the Victorian government has reached the point where the public are not even sure if their homes will be protected in an emergency.

But Wangaratta Fire Brigade’s paid staff and volunteers have come together in a show of solidarity to reassure the public no enterprise bargaining agreement would get in the way of their duties. Read more.

It’s taken a few weeks longer than expected, but the Rand-Walbundrie-Walla Giants will officially unveil their new uniforms. Read more.

►ARMIDALE: Detectives have been called in to investigate the death of a young man at the University of New England on Wednesday. Read on

►LAUNCESTON: Former mining minister Adam Brooks has apologised in Parliament, saying he inadvertently provided incorrect information during budget estimates. Read more

►BENDIGO: Victorian fishing licence fees will increase by up to 66 per cent from July 1. What does that mean for your hip pocket? Click here

►BUNBURY:  Police have arrested a woman after $80,000 worth of methamphetamine was found inside her car. South West Traffic officers stopped the vehicle during a routine inquiry in the Bunbury CBD on Wednesday morning. 

►DUBBO: Father and son fugitives Gino and Mark Stocco have pleaded guilty to a series of charges, including one of murder, in Dubbo Local Court on Wednesday. Read more

►MUDGEE: Mudgee author and US expat Summer Land was visiting her mother two hours from Orlando when she woke to the news that 49 people had been killed inside a popular nightclub. Summer and her two children are spending the American summer with family while their Mudgee home undergoes renovation. LISTEN to the interview here

►REDLAND: Redlands MP Matt McEachan said Tuesday's state budget "dudded" the people of the southern Moreton Bay islands. Why? Read on

Need a national news snapshot first thing - well, we have you covered. 

►SYDNEY: Eleven years ago, Roger "Don't call me The Dodger" Rogerson was sitting in the dock, clutching a John Grisham thriller as he waited to find out how long he would be spending in the Big House this time around. Read more

►MELBOURNE: Firefighters who are shifted to a new work location will be spared the financial pain of stamp duty when they buy a new house, in a massive  taxpayer-funded benefit buried in Daniel Andrews' controversial industrial deal. Read on

►ORLANDO: This is where the investigative road divides spectacularly: was Orlando gunman Omar Mateen driven by a love of Islamic State, or by a deep sense of self-loathing – possibly triggered by an awareness that he was gay?

Given that investigators have yet to come up with answers, some might have leapt on the Mateen story earlier than they sensibly should have. In claiming responsibility for Sunday's attack, IS will be acutely embarrassed if the emerging story of Mateen's homosexuality becomes the dominant narrative. Read more

►ORLANDO: The body of a two-year-old dragged into waters at a Disney resort in Orlando, Florida, has been found. Police using boats, divers and a helicopter recovered the body after an alligator dragged him into a lagoon in front of his family during a vacation at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida, CNN reported citing an unnamed source. Continue reading

A very sad looking seal with visible injuries has been spotted resting on the NSW Mid-North Coast in the past few days. It's not all doom and gloom though. Read more

The year Eric “Jim” Muddle was born, Paris was bombed by German Zeppelins, the light switch and electric power drill were invented and the first blood transfusion was performed. Read on