The Border Mail Today

Today is January 21, 2021 and this is your daily news briefing from The Border Mail. In today’s update, NSW Deputy Premier John Barilaro has left the door open for more support for border businesses, but has stopped short of committing to a second round of an existing program, and NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian has promised to ease COVID-19 restrictions in a week's time if cases remain low, with the new rules likely to be as close as possible to those in place before the Avalon outbreak.

Today is January 20, 2021 and this is your daily news briefing from The Border Mail. In today’s update, senator Bridget McKenzie has agreed to face a Senate committee next month over her involvement in the sports rorts saga, after being ordered to do so by senators, and Federation councillors have blasted the Victorian government's border closure as "dangerous" and "ridiculous".

Today is January 19, 2021 and this is your daily news briefing from The Border Mail. In today’s update, the Border real estate industry is in shock after the sudden death of Ray White Wodonga principal Fran Wernert, and the Victorian government has cleared the way for tourists to travel to border LGAs without having to get tested upon return to Victoria.

Today is January 18, 2021 and this is your daily news briefing from The Border Mail. In today’s update, property owners in Albury who find themselves with a sky-high water bill because of an undetected water leak are being given the chance to recoup some of that cost, and there were six cases of community transmission in NSW overnight, all close contacts of a Western Sydney case reported on Saturday.

Today is January 15, 2021 and this is your daily news briefing from The Border Mail. In today’s update, southern NSW residents could soon be able to track fires in both NSW and Victoria on one mobile app, with the NSW Rural Fire Service testing an update, and Border and North East students were some of the more than 48,000 to receive first-round university offers from Victorian Tertiary Admissions Centre on Thursday.

Today is January 14, 2021 and this is your daily news briefing from The Border Mail. In today’s update, the NSW Premier has called for an "open and compassionate" approach to closed borders as the start of the 2021 school year approaches, and Albury-Wodonga is yet to crack 40 degrees this summer.

Today is January 13, 2021 and this is your daily news briefing from The Border Mail. In today’s update, tourism businesses are pushing for regional NSW to be immediately turned green under new Victorian travel arrangements, and a total fire ban is in place for parts of the Southern Riverina today.

Today is January 12, 2021 and this is your daily news briefing from The Border Mail. In today’s update, people from regional NSW will be able to freely cross the border and return to Victoria from 6pm Monday, but there is no date yet for the border to be reopened completely, and a severe heatwave will cross the Border region during the first half of the week and the temperature should exceed 40 degrees for the first time this summer, the Bureau of Meteorology has warned.

Today is January 11, 2021 and this is your daily news briefing from The Border Mail. In today’s update, police are investigating a car crash after the driver left the scene, and Victoria's Health Minister has refuted the New South Wales Premier's suggestion there was a lack of communication between the states before Victoria introduced a hard border with New South Wales.

Today is January 8, 2021 and this is your daily news briefing from The Border Mail. In today’s update, there was a 500 per cent increase in testing done by one drive-through COVID-19 clinic at Lavington, with services set to remain operational right into 2021, and Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews has raised the prospect of an earlier end to the hard border closure which has decimated Murray River tourism operators.