Benalla and Beechworth 10 and showers.

Corryong 9 and rain increasing.

Falls Creek and Mount Buller -3 and Mount Hotham -4.

As the bodies of three Australian soldiers were lowered into the ground in Northern France, a Wodonga man rest assured his expertise helped contribute something to the service. Read more.

Greta Valley Free Range Pork operators will take their fight for the right to farm to the Australian High Court after Wangaratta council imposed more than 50 conditions to their permit to farm. Read more.

A Wodonga trucking company has been fined after a series of heavy vehicle crashes and continual log book breaches by a driver, including six “critical risk” breaches. Read more.

The dollars raised were commendable, but starting the conversations around mental health proved the biggest success of a Border awareness event. Read more.

Injured Lavington forward Luke Gestier has played his last match in the Ovens and Murray. Read more.

Need a national news snapshot first thing? We've got you covered. 

►CENTRAL COAST: Two boys, aged just 10 and 11, have been hospitalised after taking ice at a Wyong skate park. Read more

►ILLAWARRA: It was almost 5am when Reed Harris came to in the back of a taxi bound for his Port Kembla home. His head hurt, he couldn’t remember how he had gotten into the cab and when he looked down, he was covered in blood. There had been a scuffle on the street, he recalled – with a player he recognised from St George Illawarra Dragons. Read more

►MOREE: A farming business has been slapped with a $90,000 fine after a court found it failed to protect a worker who was killed on the job three years ago. Continue reading

► BENDIGO: Poker machines have never nabbed as much money from Bendigo punters as they have in the past twelve months - at least $48.5 million, data from the state's gambling regulator has revealed. Read more  

► BATHURST: The raging waters of the Chifley Dam and low-level flooding have been captured in spectacular drone footage. Read, watch more

► DUBBO: Almost three times as many men as women have died on western region roads this year, new data shows and a road safety advocate says it’s time to face the issue. Read more

► WA: Australia's biggest national native bird count has shown numbers of the threatened Carnaby’s black cockatoo have increased in suburban and outer metro areas. Read more

► TASMANIA: A Devonport couple have hit the jackpot, winning more than $2 million in the weekend's TattsLotto draw. Read more

►WARRNAMBOOL: Murray Goulburn Cooperative's decision to slash its milk price has flushed out a big field of south-west suppliers keen to have input into the company’s future decisions, with seven nominations received from MG suppliers for the forthcoming election for three supplier directors for the western region that covers Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania. Read more

►WAGGA: The Riverina is in the midst of a trade shortage, with one Wagga tradie saying youngsters want too much, too soon. And the issue will only get worse, according to federal government predictions. Read more

►PORT MACQUARIE: Lifesavers, paramedics, and police were involved in the unsuccessful resuscitation of a teenager who drowned while swimming at The Blowhole at Nobby’s Beach on Monday. Read more

►VICTORIA: A truck was hit by a falling tree on the Princes Highway in one of more than 60 incidents during fierce storms in the south-west on Monday. Read more

►LEETON: The man who has counselled dozens of Leeton High students after last year’s murder of popular teacher Stephanie Scott and reached out to hundreds of firefighters battling depression or post traumatic stress has been given a rare honour. Read more

► Disturbing footage has emerged of a 17-year-old boy, who was one of six boys tear gassed at a juvenile detention centre near Darwin, being strapped to a mechanical restraint chair. Read more

► Officer A had never been inside the Lindt cafe before. He had never shot a man either. That changed on December 16, 2014, when the tactical assault officer concentrated his laser pointer on Man Haron Monis and fired. Continue reading

►Newly elected Labor frontbencher Linda Burney says that Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion is a failure, pointing to recent cuts to Indigenous funding and his hostile relationship with advocacy group the National Congress of Australia's First Peoples. Read more

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International news

►UNITED STATES: Two teenagers have been killed and more than a dozen wounded in a shooting at a Florida nightclub, which police say was not an act of terrorism. Club Blu in Fort Myers was reportedly hosting a "teen night", when gunfire erupted in the car park, hitting partygoers as young as 12. Read more

►PHILIPPINES: President Rodrigo Duterte has ordered police to escalate his war on illegal drugs that has already killed almost 300 people across the island nation since the start of July. Read more

1858: Sydney and Melbourne are linked by telegraph.

1978: The World Health Organisation announces that smallpox has been eradicated worldwide.

When Muhammad Imtiaz woke to the news of tragedy during France’s Bastille Day celebrations, his wife begged him not to hold his clearing misconceptions about Islam stall on Griffith's main street that weekend.

However, he said he refused to let terrorism win, continuing to pass on his message of peace. 

“This is my lifelong commitment, as long as I am alive I will do this to bring people closer so they can communicate with one another,” Mr Imtiaz said. Read more