Wangaratta, Rutherglen and Benalla 12. Beechworth and Corryong 10.

Falls Creek and Mount Buller 1, and Mount Hotham 0.

Beechworth Sweet Co owner Sally McGregor will change her television ad featuring a golliwog after it was deemed racist by the Advertising Standards Bureau last week. Read more.

A mystery investment group has re-ignited hopes the Beechworth Gaol can be redeveloped into a “thriving community space” after snapping up the historic site. Read more.

Ross Peter Gibbons was feeling a bit hot so had a drink – in his ute – heading down the Hume Freeway.

He had packed six bales of hay in his trailer, having made a decent start on a six-pack of VB stubbies in the centre console. Read more.

King Valley residents are living in fear as the absence of a permanent police presence at Whitfield drags out to almost 18 months. Read more.

Upper Murray rower Charlotte Sutherland has been summonsed from her Tooma family farm to compete in next month’s Rio Olympics. Read more.

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

►TASMANIA: Just  days after the Justice Department committed to a review of operations at the state's prison service, another inmate was accidentally released from Risdon and boarded a bus for Launceston. Read more

►GRIFFITH: “I can understand as a person stepping back how quickly things can change and how much a child can change your life. You can’t replace a child."

A young man who saved the life of a toddler on Monday has insisted he was just doing his job. Read more

►CASTLEMAINE: A violent underworld figure has died following an attack on two prison guards at Loddon Prison near Castlemaine. Read more

►WAGGA: Concern for patient safety could force Wagga hospital to proceed with the closure of more surge beds on Friday, with nurses saying they are unable to cover staff shortages without putting lives at risk. Read more

► TAMWORTH: A Tamworth man has been charged over the crash that claimed the life of one friend, and injured his wife and another. Read more

► BATHURST: Dorothy ‘Dot’ Simmons may be battered and bruised, but she has thanked the community who helped her following a horrific dog attack that left her in hospital. Read more

►BUNBURY: A 54-year-old man from Dalyellup will face Bunbury Magistrates Court charged with the 1993 sexual assault of an intellectually handicapped woman. Read more

► BALLARAT: William "Bill" Spedding was due to face Ballarat Magistrates Court on Thursday for a filing hearing after he was charged with seven child sex offences by Victoria Police on July 4. Read more

►RIVERINA: A Griffith charity has been blown away by the kindness of one resident who left them $400,000 in her will. Read more

►PORT MACQUARIE: The battle lines were drawn early. And it was tense. You were either in the punk-like purple/pink icing camp or you were holding firm with the traditionalists. Read more

►WOLLONGONG: Beleaguered Dragons centre Tim Lafai claims he and his “boys” were outnumbered and forced to defend themselves during a wild brawl that spilled out of a Wollongong nightclub in the early hours of Sunday. Story, video

► Thirty-three teenagers and young boys incarcerated in Darwin's now notorious Don Dale Detention Centre are to be moved to a former immigration centre that has been slammed for being "completely inappropriate for children". Read more

► What are the consequences under those circumstances when the debate turns from informed and civil to feral and largely fact-free? The tragedy that befell the Kelly family this week with the death of their 18-year-old son Stuart may have given us a terrible insight. Read more

► The head of British armed policing has told the Lindt cafe siege inquest he would have been "screaming out" for a tactical assault plan to be approved and ready for final authorisation. Read more

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International news

►UK: Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe literally knocks on wood before saying the UK has not had any terror attacks – recently. But he admits frankly that one is "likely". Read more

►BRAZIL: Rio de Janeiro Mayor Eduardo Paes and Australian Olympic Team Chef de Mission Kitty Chiller have made peace. Read more

►INDONESIA: Family members of 14 death row prisoners wept and one was close to collapse after learning the largest mass killing of convicted drug felons in Indonesia would take place on Thursday night - 24 hours earlier than expected. Read more

1588: British General, Sir Francis Drake, defeats the Spanish Armada off the coast of Plymouth.

1938: The "Territory for the Seat of Government" becomes the Australian Capital Territory.

1942: During World War II, Japanese forces attack Kokoda on the island of New Guinea, forcing Australian troops to retreat.

1981: Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer marry.

Cousins Porsha Jorgensen and Rebecca Clough have been inseparable since their birth 18 years ago.

On July 27, 1998, 18 years ago, sisters Andrea Jorgensen and Sharon Clough found themselves in labour on the same day.

Now they've hit another milestone. Read more