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Thousands of you donned the wet weather gear and marched with our veterans across our region on Anzac Day. It’s raining now but the showers will ease before a cold snap comes through. A top of 15 today in Albury-Wodonga. Max temps: Corowa 15, Culcairn 16, Wangaratta 15, Corryong 15, Bright 14, Falls Creek 5.
Catch up on news here:
World War II pilot Edgar Pickles defies the rain on Anzac Day
At 96, Edgar Pickles could be forgiven for not wanting to sit for an hour in the rain on Anzac Day. But the World War II aerial ace was more worried others would be daunted. More here
Joe Williams lines up at Albury-Wodonga Winter Solstice 2017
It was the enemy within that nearly ended the life of world champion boxer and former NRL player Joe Williams. Depression is an illness he struggled with since he was a teenager and in 2012 he tried to take his life. More here
Henty march called off due to weather
As rain bucketed down throughout our region some organisers of Anzac Day services were forced to call off marches. The planned march at Henty was cancelled and about 200 people packed the town’s Civic Centre for the service. More here
Wodonga Raiders topple Wodonga in O&M netball
Plenty of feeling between Albury and North Albury during annual Anzac Day clash
While the scoreline was a fairly accurate representation of the game, the traditional Anzac Day clash between Albury and North Albury was played with plenty of fire. More here
Regional news
AN octogenarian farmer who stared down a mining giant has won the world’s pre-eminent award for grassroots conservation.
Two people have been found dead inside a Wangaratta home after an apparent murder suicide.
Police entered the Belle Avenue home about 5.10pm and found the pair dead inside after a shooting.
Seventy-five years ago, Australia braced for impact, from the ever-encroaching conflict of World War II, as it made its way south through the Pacific. At a desperate low in the Kokoda campaign, stretcher-bearers lugged wounded Australian soldiers for days through strangling, unyielding jungle to reach medical help.
National news
Malcolm Turnbull has flagged an Australian military presence in Iraq and Afghanistan for the foreseeable future, saying training of local forces needs to be "a long-term commitment".
Work for the dole has been an expensive "demonstrable failure" that does nothing to lessen the nation's unemployment burden, one of Australia's biggest charities has said.
A 13-year-old boy is among four teenagers accused of bashing a taxi driver, leaving him with serious head injuries and two broken teeth.
Police believe the two girls and two boys caught a taxi to Bridge Inn Road in Wollert, north of Melbourne, about 3am on Tuesday and told the driver that a relative was coming to pay the $45 fare.
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International news
North Korea has staged its largest live artillery "bombardment", involving 400 long-range cannons, in the eastern town of Wonsan under the watch of leader Kim Jong-un.
A blackened body lies unidentified on a slab in a Manila funeral home, one of thousands of suspected extra-judicial killings, or EJKs, as they have become known in Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's war on drugs.
Beleaguered outgoing Jakarta governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama has revealed an unexpected source of inspiration as he fights allegations of insulting Islam: a small clownfish called Nemo.
On this day | April 26
There are 249 days remaining until the end of the year. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Tuesday, Thursday or Sunday (58 in 400 years each) than on Friday or Saturday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Monday or Wednesday (56).
1956 – First modern container ship, the Ideal X, leaves Port Newark, New Jersey for Houston, Texas.
1991 – Seventy tornadoes break out in the central United States. Before the outbreak's end, Andover, Kansas, would record the year's only F5 tornado.
2005 – Under international pressure, Syria withdraws the last of its 14,000 troop military garrison in Lebanon, ending its 29-year military domination of that country.