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Today is September 14, 2020 and this is your daily news briefing from The Border Mail. In today’s update, North East businesses will be eligible for state grants worth up to $25,000, with a focus on those industries most affected by the stage three lockdown, and unintentional drug overdoses are on the rise on the Border and in the North East, according to new national data.

Today is September 11, 2020 and this is your daily news briefing from The Border Mail. In today’s update, Albury Council is set to recover only a fraction of the money owed to it by Virgin Australia airlines, and Albury is now playing a more central role in the NSW Rural Fire Service with an industrial building north of the airport home to the south western area command.

Today is September 10, 2020 and this is your daily news briefing from The Border Mail. In today’s update, Victorian premier Daniel Andrews confirmed on Wednesday that regional Victoria was close to meeting the targets set out in the weekend's roadmap, and after 12 years, Virgin Australia will no longer fly from Albury.

Today is September 9, 2020 and this is your daily news briefing from The Border Mail. In today’s update, the Murrumbidgee region has recorded a new coronavirus case in the last 24 hours after a Carrathool resident isolating in Sydney tested positive, and a woman who died in an accident at Mount Stanley at the weekend had only just moved to the area and was looking forward to the change.

Today is September 8, 2020 and this is your daily news briefing from The Border Mail. In today’s update, Professor Brett Sutton says regions like the North East are being kept in the same lockdown restrictions as regional areas with active coronavirus cases for their own protection, and Wodonga Council's intention to sell a block of industrial land for a lesser price than what can be achieved was a "pub test fail", according to the developer prepared to pay the higher amount.

Today is September 7, 2020 and this is your daily news briefing from The Border Mail. In today’s update, a motorcycle rider is fighting for his life after he crashed and catapulted into a tree in a residential area of Wodonga on Saturday evening, and the Victorian government has announced several changes to restrictions in regional areas.

Today is September 4, 2020 and this is your daily news briefing from The Border Mail. In today’s update, travellers need to show "common sense" and "be honest" in crossing the border for essential shopping and compassionate care, and four more senior Sydney doctors have answered Albury Wodonga Health's "call to arms" to supervise its Albury emergency department while a ban on Melbourne locums continues.

Today is September 3, 2020 and this is your daily news briefing from The Border Mail. In today’s update, the NSW public health order allowing the return of the 50-kilometre border zone on Friday may not be finalised until Thursday evening, and despite the votes of two North East MPs going against the plan, Victoria's upper house has passed legislation to extend the state of emergency for another six months past September.

Today is September 2, 2020 and this is your daily news briefing from The Border Mail. In today’s update, the votes of Tim Quilty and Tania Maxwell were made on Tuesday against a 12-month extension to Victoria's state of emergency, and NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian has confirmed a 50-kilometre border zone will be implemented from Friday.

Today is September 1, 2020 and this is your daily news briefing from The Border Mail. In today’s update, almost eight weeks after the NSW Premier closed the border, essentially splitting Albury from Wodonga, Gladys Berejiklian will visit the border city today, and the Albury Show will not be held this year with organisers conceding COVID-19 fallout made it too hard to stage.