Wangaratta 15, Benalla 14, Rutherglen and Beechworth 13 and Corryong 12.

Falls Creek 2, Mount Buller 1, Mount Hotham 0.

Former Albury Thunder player Lou Goodwin has signed a contract with the Canberra Raiders after winning the final of The NRL Rookie. Read more.

Organisers of the Wangaratta Jazz and Blues Festival are hoping attendees will see the value in an expanded food and wine precinct for the 2016 event. Read more.

A fundraiser for a man killed following a petrol explosion in the Chiltern Valley has been given a significant boost thanks to a magistrate. Read more.

Albury mayor Henk van de Ven has defended his style of trying to secure more NSW government funding for the city. Read more.

Lockhart coach Shane Lenon will stand down at the end of the Hume League season. Read more.

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

ALBURY/WODONGA: Two drivers have discovered the hard way flood waters are no place for their vehicles. Read more.

BENDIGO: Sports entertainment group Nitro Circus will perform in Bendigo in April. Read more.

BALLARAT: A 16-year-old boy who set himself on fire was not given the support he needed by child protection authorities, a coroners inquest has found. Read more.

NEWCASTLE: More than 30 years of child sexual abuse and cover-ups by clergy and lay members of various Anglican parishes have been laid bare on the opening day of the royal commission’s two-week hearing into the Anglican diocese of Newcastle. Read more.

WARRNAMBOOL: The volcanic ash cloud that forced the cancellation of numerous flights to Bali on Monday turned the start of a holiday into an ordeal for at least three Warrnambool families. Read more.

TASMANIA: Two men feared dead off the coast near Cremorne, in the state’s south, remained missing on Tuesday night. Read more.

ILLAWARA: A dreadlocked nightwalker who stood in the path of a moving car at Russell Vale and tried to get inside has been likened to a character from a horror movie. Read more.

DUBBO: A man who was banned from driving for 30 years was again caught for driving while disqualified  at Dubbo. Read more.

WAGGA: OK, enough is enough, Mother Nature. Wagga just had its fourth wettest winter start on record and the rain keeps on falling. Read more.

TAMWORTH: At five-foot-six, armed with her beloved guitar and a head full of dreams, Gunnedah’s Katrina Burgoyne is preparing to pack her bags for Nashville, the songwriting capital of the world. Read more.

REDLANDS: Dozens of wallaby joeys have been orphaned in the Redlands in the past two months after their mothers were hit by cars. Read more.

National news

►Veteran gay rights campaigner Rodney Croome has quit as the head of the marriage equality lobby group he founded, saying it is at odds with his position on the proposed same-sex marriage plebiscite. Read more

► The peak body representing Australian universities has urged the Turnbull government to finally abandon the 20 per cent funding cut to universities originally proposed in the Abbott government's politically-toxic 2014 budget. Read more

► A controversial Australian street artist's mural of Hillary Clinton, first depicting her in revealing bathers before it was repainted as a "beautiful Muslim woman" wearing a burqa, has now been painted over in black. Read more

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International news

►LONDON: The chief lawyer for the defunct News of the World tabloid sent a private investigator to find proof that two other lawyers acting for phone hacking victims were having an affair, in order to gain "leverage" against them, a tribunal has heard. Read more

►CHINA: In the first conviction seen since a sweeping year-long crackdown against legal rights advocates in China, a court in the northern city of Tianjin has found human rights advocate Zhai Yanmin guilty of subverting state power. Read more

►INDONESIA: More than 13,000 Indonesian seaweed farmers will on Wednesday launch a class action in the Federal Court in Sydney against the company responsible for the worst oil spill in the history of Australia's offshore petroleum industry. Read more

1492 – Christopher Columbus sets sail from Palos de la Frontera, Spain.

1527 – The first known letter from North America is sent by John Rut while at St. John's, Newfoundland.

1914 – World War I: Germany declares war against France, while Romania declares its neutrality.

1936 – Jesse Owens wins the 100 meter dash, defeating Ralph Metcalfe, at the Berlin Olympics.

1949 – The Basketball Association of America and the National Basketball League finalize the merger, that would create the National Basketball Association

2001 – The Real IRA detonates a car bomb in Ealing, London, England, United Kingdom injuring seven people.

1975 – A privately chartered Boeing 707 strikes a mountain peak and crashes near Agadir, Morocco, killing 188.

2010 – Widespread rioting erupts in Karachi, Pakistan, after the assassination of a local politician, leaving at least 85 dead and at least 17 billion Pakistani rupees (US$200 million) in damage.

2014 – A 6.1 magnitude earthquake kills at least 617 people and injures more than 2,400 in Yunnan, China.

Growing up as a gay Aboriginal kid living in the Illawarra’s southern suburbs in the 1980s, Kenny Lock knew more than his fair share about discrimination. Read more