The Border Mail Today

Today is August 31, 2020 and this is your daily news briefing from The Border Mail. In today’s update, Towong Council has settled on its plan to begin the rebuild from the twin setbacks of last summer's bushfires and COVID-19 with an ambitious capital works program being ticked off. And police have located ice stashed in a man's socks and hidden underneath a car seat cover at the Hume Highway border checkpoint.

Today is August 28, 2020 and this is your daily news briefing from The Border Mail. In today’s update, about 100 critical workers were turned back when trying to cross the border into Albury on Thursday and told to fly to Sydney instead, as a result of a "technological glitch" in the app used by NSW Police. And police have seized a car during a raid at a Wodonga home and arrested one man as they investigate a firearms incident.

Today is August 27, 2020 and this is your daily news briefing from The Border Mail. In today’s update, The New South Wales government has been asked why it will take up to 10 days to revert back to the 50-kilometre "border bubble", when it had managed to tighten restrictions far more quickly in recent months, and a defence contractor has tested positive to coronavirus after attending Albury-Wodonga.

Today is August 26, 2020 and this is your daily news briefing from The Border Mail. In today’s update, border residents will once again be able to cross the Murray River for everyday needs after NSW Deputy Premier John Barilaro announced changes to the permit system and NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian expects COVID-19 case numbers will continue to "yo-yo" over coming weeks.

Today is August 25, 2020 and this is your daily news briefing from The Border Mail. In today’s update, pressure is building on NSW Agriculture Minister Adam Marshall to follow the lead of the Queensland government and grant exemptions to more farmers and agriculture workers to cross the NSW-Victoria border and the 2020 Benalla Festival has been cancelled.

Today is August 24, 2020 and this is your daily news briefing from The Border Mail. In today’s update, Border families were left scrambling to meet a midnight deadline to renew permits for children to attend school today, and a man has been handed a $1000 fine for crossing into NSW on a work permit, but not attending work.

Today is August 21, 2020 and this is your daily news briefing from The Border Mail. In today’s update, NSW Deputy Premier John Barilaro would like to see his state's Victorian border fully opened by Christmas and the Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission is investigating V/Line chief executive James Pinder.

Today is August 20, 2020 and this is your daily news briefing from The Border Mail. In today’s update, there are fears travellers are using V/Line buses to travel from Melbourne to the North East without a valid reason and Victoria recorded 216 new cases of coronavirus on Wednesday, the fourth consecutive daily tally under 300 new cases after weeks of high figures.

Today is August 19, 2020 and this is your daily news briefing from The Border Mail. In today’s update, the NSW government has removed the roadblock to farmers and critical agricultural workers from outside the border region zone in Victoria being able to travel into NSW, and the Strawberry Fields music festival has become the last major 2020 cultural event in the southern Riverina to succumb to the fallout from coronavirus.

Today is August 18, 2020 and this is your daily news briefing from The Border Mail. In today’s update, the NSW government has tightened restrictions at public schools so they can continue to operate full-time with face-to-face teaching, and more Victorians have been caught out drinking and playing poker machines after crossing into NSW.