Benalla and Beechworth 14 and Corryong 12.

Falls Creek and Mount Buller 1 and Mount Hotham 0.

A woman has told the murder trial for her Lavington boyfriend’s killer that the accused was “completely fine” on the night of the shooting. Read more.

A dingo has been spotted out in the open for the first time during a snowy Mount Buffalo winter. Read more.

Opposition Leader Bill Shorten is the latest big name to call Cathy McGowan with his congratulations. Read more.

Something “clicked” for Trent Sirl 10 months ago when he decided to regain control of his health. Read more.

He’s back – but Jason Akermanis is yet to lock in the three-year deal he sought from North Albury. Read more.

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

► BENDIGO: Cycling ace Glenn O'Shea is targeting Olympic gold, after confirming his place in Australia's men's track team for Rio.

The 27-year-old is part of a six-member men's endurance squad announced early Tuesday afternoon. Full story.

►GOULBURN: Goulburn Police have charged four people in relation to the dragging of a kangaroo behind a car in Goulburn on Sunday night. Full story.

► BALLARAT: RESIDENTS in Skipton Street woke to find firefighters extinguishing a blaze at a vacant house at 2am on Tuesday. Full story.

► WOLLONGONG: The Gilmore election result continues to teeter on a knife edge, after fifty extra votes in favour of Labor candidate Fiona Phillips have been added to the tally. Full story.

►DUBBO: Wellington woman Marie Cornish says she was shaken and slightly terrified when a 25-year-old local man allegedly overpowered her and stole her milk truck.

► REDLANDS: POLICE seized more than five kilograms of cannabis with a street value of at least $33,000 in drug busts in Birkdale and Wellington Point early on Tuesday morning. Full story.

► LAUNCESTON: For those wanting to depart on the Overland Track in peak periods, getting permits is akin to booking for a rock concert, get in quick or miss out. 

Only four days after Overland Track bookings opened the period between Christmas and New Year are booked out, with limited space left for days surrounding this period. Full story.

► BATEMANS BAY: Batemans Bay’s flying foxes are leaving as a result of Eurobodalla Shire Council's dispersal activities and their own natural migration patterns, a council spokeswoman said. Full story.

► A besieged Malcolm Turnbull has steadied his teetering leadership, declaring his chances of forming a majority government may be improving, while also taking full responsibility for a flawed campaign. Full story.

►Two elderly nuns have been robbed at knifepoint inside a Buddhist temple in Sydney's west in an attack police described as "cowardly, disgraceful and completely disrespectful". Full story.

► A Melbourne author has criticised election campaign tactics used by the Australian Christian Lobby, including linking her picture book for transgender children to support for a controversial anti-bullying program. Full story.

►The NSW government does not monitor how many refuge beds are available for women escaping domestic violence because it is not "a meaningful way" of measuring demand for services. Full story.

► ORLANDO: Americans, their children in tow, have flocked to the first major gun show in Orlando since last month's nightclub massacre, seeking "protection". Full story.

►KATHMANDU: Nepal's mountaineering authorities are investigating a climbing claim by an Indian couple who are accused of altering photographs of themselves on the summit of Mount Everest. Full story.

►RIYADH: Suicide bombers have struck three cities across Saudi Arabia, in an apparent co-ordinated campaign of attacks as Saudis prepared to break their fast on the penultimate day of the holy month of Ramadan. Full story.

►BAGHDAD: As the death toll from the weekend truck bombing in Baghdad climbed to 157, Iraq's embattled prime minister has ordered new security measures, including abandoning the use of bomb-detection wands that US experts pronounced worthless years ago. Full story.

1994 - On this day in 1994, the movie Forrest Gump opens in U.S. theaters. A huge box-office success, the film starred Tom Hanks in the title role of Forrest, a good-hearted man with a low I.Q. who winds up at the center of key cultural and historical events of the second half of the 20th century.

Tasmania's tallest and hardest mountains are the playground of Launceston man Zane Robnik who has set himself the challenge to climb all of Tasmania's Abels in 18 months.

An Abel is a mountain more than 1100m high with a drop of 150m or more on all sides. Tasmania boasts 158 of them.

Varying from day walks to multi day epics that punish the uninitiated and underprepared, the mystique of the Abels has lured Tasmanian bushwalkers for years. Read on.