Shepp News

Are traders ready for plastic bag ban?

There is less than a month until lightweight plastic shopping bags are banned, and Greater Shepparton City Council is urging businesses to be ready. The ban includes compostable, degradable and biodegradable plastics and starts on November 1. It will...

Shepparton News

GV Health anaesthetist takes out top award

GV Health anaesthetic registrar Nathaniel Hiscock recently took out this year’s Renton Prize. The award is given to the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetist (ANZCA) trainee who reached the highest marks in their primary examination...

Tara Whitsed

Council ready to tackle affordable housing

Greater Shepparton City Council has drafted an affordable housing strategy as it fights for government funding to tackle homelessness. Widely considered as the key factor in reducing the impact of homelessness, affordable housing is a big issue in...

James Bennett

Council ready to tackle affordable housing

Greater Shepparton City Council has drafted an affordable housing strategy as it fights for government funding to tackle homelessness. Widely considered as the key factor in reducing the impact of homelessness, affordable housing is a big issue in...

James Bennett

Tallygaroopna Nationals set to celebrate 100 years

The Tallygaroopna branch of the Nationals is ready to pop open the bubbly for its 100th anniversary celebration. Later this month, members and supporters will be joined by current and former politicians who have represented the Goulburn Valley at the...

James Bennett

National Water Week to be celebrated in Tongala

When the Tongala water treatment plant experienced unprecedented high levels of blue-green algae in February, Goulburn Valley Water issued a precautionary boil-water notice for two days. A species never seen before in the region, the algae thrived in...

Shepparton News

Living below the bread and sausage line

Anti-poverty campaigners were served half a sausage at a Shepparton barbecue yesterday to highlight the challenge of living on the government’s Newstart allowance. Family Care staff, social workers, welfare providers, students and other supporters...

John Lewis

Betty dedicates life to Tallygaroopna Nationals

Betty Thornton has spent a lifetime devoted to the Tallygaroopna branch of the National Party. As a 70-year member she has seen the Goulburn Valley produce some of Victoria and Australia’s highest-profile politicians. Political reporter James...

James Bennett

Numurkah man jailed for robbing pharmacy

A Numurkah man who robbed an Echuca pharmacy in August, stealing more than $500 worth of drugs, has been jailed for 12 months. Liam James Stanger, 38, pleaded guilty in Shepparton Magistrates’ Court on Friday to robbery, committing an indictable...

Shepparton News

All aboard for rail show

Inside the old parcels office at Shepparton Railway Station you can take a train to Dookie — all day, every day. The model rail layout is still under construction, and is one of several permanently set up at the clubhouse of the Goulburn Valley...

John Lewis

Tallygaroopna - the little town with a big buzz

Just like big families, country towns have their own parade of unique characters and passions, buildings and histories — all united by a shared sense of pride and identity. In the next few months, The News will visit communities near Shepparton to...

John Lewis

Council agrees on limited free parking

Greater Shepparton City Council will allow “limited free parking” in the Shepparton CBD between December and January. Shoppers will be able to park for free in any council-owned off-street and on-street parking for a time period to be decided...

James Bennett

Makia’s dream journey comes true

Three weeks after appealing for help to visit her dying movie legend father David Gulpilil, Shepparton’s Makia McLaughlin has realised her dream. Last week the 30-year-old travelled to Murray Bridge in South Australia to spend five days with her...

John Lewis

Data reveals Shepparton’s weighty problem

New research has revealed 68 per cent of the Greater Shepparton population is overweight or obese. Australian Bureau of Statistics data shows more than 30,000 Greater Shepparton adults are overweight or obese, and 30 per cent of the region’s youth...

Morgan Dyer

Thon’s garden of memories

Thon Makuei Thon’s favourite place is a garden. No surprise there — he’s from the desert. But for the Shepparton Ethnic Council worker, the city’s Queen’s Gardens has something extra; it’s a place that, by remarkable coincidence, repaired a circle...

John Lewis

Nagambie local hits the road to raise cancer funds

Dave Lawler was holidaying in Thailand when an acquaintance asked him if he was interested in driving in the Shitbox Rally.

James Bennett

Discussing the future of cancer

With one in two people expected to be diagnosed with cancer in their lifetime, Shepparton locals will have the opportunity to have their say on ways to fight the deadly disease later this month

Morgan Dyer

Man to face County Court over serious collision which injured grandson

A Shepparton man will appear in the County Court at a later date following a serious collision which injured himself and his grandson at Major Plains.

Liz Mellino

Maude St Mall revitalisation works set to begin

Works in the Maude St Mall are set to start soon as part of the Greater Shepparton City Council revitalisation plans.

James Bennett