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Today is January 7, 2021 and this is your daily news briefing from The Border Mail. In today’s update, the hard border closure headache will continue for at least the rest of the month, according to Victoria's Health Minister, and a Corowa man who died in custody lost his life through natural causes, a coroner has found.

Today is January 6, 2021 and this is your daily news briefing from The Border Mail. In today’s update, Wodonga’s new $10.2 million library will be an icon of the city, Victoria's recently appointed Regional Development Minister believes, and all close contacts of a COVID-positive man who flew from Sydney to Griffith on December 21, have been released from isolation.

Today is January 5, 2021 and this is your daily news briefing from The Border Mail. In today’s update, Wodonga Council has formally agreed to relocate a park name from one location in Killara to another following the discovery the present spot is in a cultural heritage sensitivity area, and waiting times peaked at up to five hours as Albury Wodonga Health conducted 1338 COVID-19 tests between Thursday and Sunday, all of them returning negative results.

Today is January 4, 2021 and this is your daily news briefing from The Border Mail. In today’s update, eradicating extended power outages which confronted the Upper Murray during last summer's bushfires is a step closer to being overcome with an initial Victorian government funding injection of $800,000, and Border residents continue to fall victim to a cruel puppy purchasing scam which has fleeced people out of thousands of dollars in cash.

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Today is December 28, 2020 and this is an update from The Border Mail team.

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Today is December 24, 2020 and this is your daily news briefing from The Border Mail. In today’s update, Wodonga Council's waste management levy reserve surplus has climbed to more than $500,000, less than two years after responding to the Ombudsman finding that funds were being spent on other services to dodge rate-capping, and checkpoints will remain on the Victorian side of the border into 2021, according to Albury's mayor.

Today is December 23, 2020 and this is your daily news briefing from The Border Mail. In today’s update, neighbouring residents will be given a say on rezoning land in Jarrah Street, Wodonga after being left off a long list of city properties to undergo minor zoning tweaks at the last minute, and major delays on the Hume Freeway due to the closed Victorian border prompted concerns for truck driver fatigue and pregnant mums.

Today is December 22, 2020 and this is your daily news briefing from The Border Mail. In today’s update, the border between Victoria and NSW will close every time a COVID-19 cluster necessitates, Daniel Andrews confirmed, and the Australian Defence Force has refused to provide any personnel to help Victoria Police man the border checkpoints.