9:49 AM AEDT | POLICE have confirmed a man, 54, has died from a bee sting at a holiday resort at Wymah last night.
Ambulance officers arrived at the Wymah Valley Retreat at 7.50pm but the man was already dead.
It is believed the man was allergic to bees.
A report is being prepared for the coroner.
9:14 AM AEDT | WATER police will launch a five-day blitz on North East boat owners flouting safety regulations.
Boat operators will be breath-tested and have their licences and safety equipment checked as part of the crackdown at Lake Hume and Dartmouth Dam some time before March.
1:00 AM AEDT | A WOMAN battling a lung disease is heartbroken that the dog she says is keeping her alive was stolen on New Year’s Day.
Patricia Welsh, of North Albury, says the nine-year-old American long-leg...
1:00 AM AEDT | THE Victorian Government has jumped on board a seven-day mountain bike tour of the North East alps saying it will provide a major lift for tourism in the region.
Yesterday Regional and Rural Developm...
1:00 AM AEDT | TAMARAH Pretty isn’t your regular 10-year-old.
Yesterday as the mercury soared into the high 30s the Thurgoona girl was manning her bric-a-brac stall.
She has been doing it every day since the...
1:00 AM AEDT | THE chances of having natural triplets is about 1 in 8000.
So what is the chance of workmates doing it little more than 12 months apart?
Well if you work at the Albury Safeway it is almost a sure be...
1:00 AM AEDT | AN earthmoving employee suffered burns to his face and neck after a water tank on his truck caught fire in Wodonga yesterday morning.
A Wodonga CFA crew attended the scene in Maloney Drive at 11.30am...
1:00 AM AEDT | WODONGA Council will today move to put the brakes on a prank that has left motorists in two minds at a well-known speed trap.
The speed sign on the corner of Mayfair and Dundee drives was “modi...
5/01/2009 | ALBURY'S Andrew McDonald has taken his first Test wicket to have South Africa on the backfoot on day three of the third cricket Test at the SCG.
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5/01/2009 | FIREFIGHTERS are bracing for the first real test of summer this week with temperatures soaring into the high 30s accompanied by strong winds.
Today’s forecast will be the first time the mercury...
5/01/2009 | BEECHWORTH pool is going just swimmingly this summer.
Little more than 12 months since investigations into a crack in the pool shell found contaminated soil and closed the pool for the summer it is a...
5/01/2009 | JIM Browning is one of seven fire spotters working in towers across the Upper North-East keeping a vigilant lookout for any sign of smoke.
Mr Browning, 61, has been working in the role for 10 years.
...
5/01/2009 | POLICE believe a smouldering campfire might have sparked a grass fire that burned through 5ha on Huon Hill in Wodonga yesterday morning.
Country Fire Authority units were called to the blaze before 1...
5/01/2009 | WANGARATTA’S rodeo attracted its largest crowd ever at the weekend with the help of a monster show that included a truck parade, fireworks and a full horse and bull program.
Organiser Russell G...
3/01/2009 | SYDNEY has its Harbour Bridge, Melbourne has the West Gate Bridge, San Francisco the Golden Gate Bridge and Yarrawonga-Mulwala has the, well, the Twisty Dippy Bridge.
3/01/2009 | WATCHING cheerful Lahni Kernaghan bake cupcakes it’s hard to believe just a year ago the Wodonga toddler was fighting for her life.
Diagnosed with rhabdomyosarcoma, a rare form of childhood can...
3/01/2009 | A TRUCK driver was forced to jump from his burning semi-trailer on the Hume Highway at Holbrook yesterday after a mechanical fault set the truck ablaze.
John Dobbin, 26, said he could only watch as t...
3/01/2009 | LOTTO fever has agencies doing triple their usual business, with players hoping the North East’s 2008 record of being the most successful country region in Victoria rubs off for a $30 million me...
3/01/2009 | THE prediction of soaring temperatures has prompted fire warnings from Victoria’s Country Fire Authority and the Department of Sustainability and Environment.
People camping in parks, forests a...
2/01/2009 | “IF I can see through the tears, there will be nothing nicer than seeing my son move into his own place.”
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