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Oh yes, this is our region. Warming up again before a cooler weekend ahead with a top of 37 in Albury-Wodonga. Max temps: Corowa 36, Culcairn 36, Wangaratta 36, Corryong 35, Bright 33, Falls Creek 20.
Catch up on news here:
Smartphone apps being trialled for learner logbooks
No longer would learner drivers have to lug around their worn logbooks with a proposed alternative from the NSW government. More here
CFA pay bonus divides opinion
Benambra MP Bill Tilley has slammed the Victorian Government’s decision to cave-in to union demands and give CFA career firefighters a 19 per cent pay rise. More here
Grub study first of its kind
More than 200 grubs have been collected with the help of traditional owners across Victoria, Western Australia and the Northern Territory for a PhD research study. More here
New recruits arrive for Border Bandits
The Albury Wodonga Bandits have unveiled their marquee recruits as they prepare for their 2017 campaign. More here
State of the nation
Need a national news snapshot first thing - well, we have you covered.
► BENDIGO: Five people have been injured after a V/Line train carrying about 80 passengers derailed when it hit a car abandoned on tracks near Bendigo.
► WAGGA WAGGA: A cop killer who served 16 years jail for the murder of a Sydney police officer is living in Wagga with his former Junee prison psychologist wife and their infant boy.
Convicted murderer Murray Hearne, now 37, was the focus of a Channel Seven investigation on Wednesday night exploring his brutal murder of Constable Peter Forsyth.
► WODONGA: A 15-year-old boy has been charged with recklessly causing serious injury following a dramatic schoolyard fight at Wodonga Senior Secondary College on Tuesday.
►MANDURAH: A man is in custody helping police with inquiries following a shocking road rage attack. A male driver sustained serious facial injuries after being attacked by a motorbike rider in the Mandurah Mail carpark.
►LAUNCESTON: A $1 million federal grant to investigate a cable car and major tourism redevelopment at iconic Cradle Mountain will finally be made available in March.
► QUEENSLAND: The political games continue following the federal government’s failed attempt to compulsorily acquire land in both central and north Queensland for defence purposes. Read on
National news
► A unity ticket which had placed the National Disability Insurance Scheme beyond politics has been shredded, with the Turnbull government accused of "holding the disabled to ransom" and Labor refusing to admit the $22 billion scheme lacks $4 billion in funding.
►When the going gets tough, Yassmin Abdel-Magied thinks of the US civil rights movement. She thinks of uprisings in Egypt and her birth country Sudan. People like her parents who fought and still fight for a better life.
Ms Abdel-Magied's battle is relentless, often exhausting and deeply personal. Her areas of expertise are gender, race and engineering, but lately, whether she likes it or not, the conversation has turned to her faith: Islam.
► With her sleek black blazer, long blonde hair and inner-city office job, Alina Antal did not fit the stereotype of a drug ring director.
But, from within her humble brick home in Sydney's western suburbs, that is exactly what police allege she was, alongside her on-again-off-again boyfriend, an accused Assyrian gang associate.
National weather radar
International news
► WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump was aware that his national security adviser Michael Flynn had misled White House officials and Vice President Mike Pence for "weeks" before he was forced to resign on Monday night.
►CHINA: Unlike some key local competitors, A2 Milk has boasted of "strong growth in demand" for its infant milk formula in China as it posted a 290 per cent surge in interim earnings. Its result also benefited from buoyant demand for its milk products as it pushes into new markets in the US and UK.
On this day
1659 1st known cheque (£400) (on display at Westminster Abbey)
1840 American Charles Wilkes discovers Shackleton Ice Shelf, Antarctica
1923 Howard Carter opens the inner burial chamber of the Pharaoh Tutankhamun's tomb and finds the sarcophagus
1959 Fidel Castro becomes the 16th Prime Minister of Cuba after overthrowing Fulgencio Batista
2005 The Kyoto Protocol comes into force following its ratification by Russia.
The faces of Australia: James Oxlade
At 83 years old, James Oxlade has the physique of a man half his age.
He keeps himself trim by pumping iron, doing isometric exercises, power-walking, riding his road bike and avoiding sugar and salt.