Rutherglen and Benalla showers and 12, Beechworth 11 and Corryong 10.

Falls Creek and Mount Buller 1 and Mount Hotham 0 and snow showers.

Border and North East councils are banding together around the region’s train woes. Read more.

Already we are at the half-way point of 2016 and in that time we have seen the likes of a two-headed snake being born in Wodonga, a triplet cow birth and an eight-week marathon federal election which still hasn’t ended. Read more.

The head of a North East dairy project has called for positivity in the industry during a week where farmers were rocked by yet another cut in milk prices. Read more.

An Albury single mother got so angry about her arrest for suspected drug-driving that she headbutted and damaged a police car. Read more.

Ovens and Murray clubs are set to be able to spend up to $180,000 a season under the impending salary cap. Read more.

►WAGGA: Despairing nurses have called for an independent investigation of the Wagga hospital’s alleged culture of bullying and intimidation.

One of the state’s top nurse’s union officials is flying to Wagga next week for a series of crisis meetings with hospital management, just three months after her last visit to negotiate a ceasefire over a chronic staff shortage dispute.

►LAUNCESTON: A number of wildlife parks involved with the Save the Tasmanian Devil program could refuse to participate in the organisation's latest release, arguing it would place the species' future in jeopardy. 

It follows a plan by the program to release 32 devils - 16 from the state's insurance population and 16 from the wild - into bushland at Stony Head in August.

►MANDURAH: Laws aimed at cracking down on meth supply will be tabled in state Parliament today, aimed at giving WA Police stronger stop and search powers on sections of regional roads suspected of being meth supply routes.

►MOUNT ISA: Parts of Queensland's North West saw above average rainfall and colder than average temperatures throughout June due to La Niña forming.

►PORT AUGUSTA: Repower Port Augusta has welcomed the Nick Xenophon Team’s pledge for solar thermal funding delivery in the first hundred days on a hung parliament negotiation list. Mr Xenophon would push for a crisis meeting between the state and federal governments over energy prices and support for solar thermal being built in Port Augusta.

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

►ADELAIDE: Pushing, name calling and psychological games have defined the schoolyard for centuries, but there are signs that is starting to change. New research reveals that the number of Australian school-aged children experiencing bullying has dropped by almost a quarter in the past seven years.

►MELBOURNE: A 33-year-old man has been remanded in custody, charged with the murder of a six-month-old baby boy who died after suffering injuries to the head and genital area.

Dwayne Lindsey, of no fixed address, appeared in an out-of-session bail hearing in Melbourne on Thursday evening.

►MELBOURNE: More than 60 Myer stores across Australia have been cash-only for six hours as the widespread fallout from the Telstra outage becomes apparent.

The retailer is just one of a host of major Telstra fixed-line customers that were hit by another outage on Thursday, including Officeworks, The Good Guys, Medibank, Monash University, Jetstar, Simply Energy and ME Bank.

►PARIS: Fathi Bayoudh was a respected officer and doctor in the Tunisian military, but Tuesday night at Istanbul's main airport he was a father worried about his wayward son.

Bayoudh, 58, had arrived in Istanbul weeks earlier to find his son, Anouar, 26, who had run off to join the so-called Islamic State in Syria.

►LONDON: The former London mayor and leader of the 'Leave' movement has again shocked the world with an unexpected announcement.

2000: Kylie Minogue was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Spinning Around', the singers fifth No.1 was co-written by Paula Abdul, (it was originally intended for Abdul's "comeback" album). 'Spinning Around' gave Minogue the honor of being one of three artists (the others being Madonna and U2) to have a No.1 in the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s.

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In an era when some marriages can’t last 70 weeks, Batehaven’s Norman and Joy Miles have celebrated their 70th wedding anniversary.

Scores of friends and relatives gathered at Marantha Lodge to cheer, clap and sing with them to mark seven decades of marriage.