The Border Mail Today

Today is December 21, 2020 and this is your daily news briefing from The Border Mail. In today’s update, the hard border closure between Victoria and NSW is back less than a month since checkpoints disappeared from Albury-Wodonga and other Murray River towns, and hundreds of Wodonga residents will be left without power in the lead up to Christmas Day due to planned power outages on December 23 and 24.

Today is December 18, 2020 and this is your daily news briefing from The Border Mail. In today’s update, there will be no fireworks in Wangaratta for New Year's Eve, and a town planner entering retirement has challenged Albury and Wodonga councils to revisit a joint planning blueprint to give their Two Cities, One Community initiative the best chance of success.

Today is December 17, 2020 and this is your daily news briefing from The Border Mail. In today’s update, the number of decisions made by Wodonga Council in meetings closed to the public has increased, and police found drugs and weapons at an industrial unit in Lavington emergency services were called to after two people experienced breathing difficulties.

Today is December 16, 2020 and this is your daily news briefing from The Border Mail. In today’s update, Federation Council's push to enter into a long-term deal for Amber Aviation to operate from Corowa Airport remains a work in progress two years after the two parties began official talks, and for most of the year since last summer's bushfires, meetings about recovery funding for the North East had to be done over Zoom, with the key people in Canberra kept away by the border closure.

Today is December 15, 2020 and this is your daily news briefing from The Border Mail. In today’s update, Telstra is proposing to build its latest mobile phone tower in Wodonga on land owned by North East Water on Bears Hill, and one million dollars in Southern Border support grants went to 143 businesses in Greater Hume, showing the impact of the border closure.

Today is December 14, 2020 and this is your daily news briefing from The Border Mail. In today’s update, Albury MP Justin Clancy is facing heat to support lawful euthanasia in NSW with a petition calling for political action launched on Sunday, and Greater Hume Shire has struck in-principle deals with adjoining landowners and GrainCorp to widen roads as part of the Henty rail crossing project.

Today is December 11, 2020 and this is your daily news briefing from The Border Mail. In today’s update, Wangaratta's replacement outdoor pool and indoor hydrotherapy pool will be open to the public on December 19, and firefighters have issued warnings to residents to be aware of grass curing and the heavy fuel loads left by a good harvest after battling four fires in the region in just two days.

Today is December 10, 2020 and this is your daily news briefing from The Border Mail. In today’s update, authorities are investigating an horrific workplace incident which claimed a man's life at Howlong, and a $300,000 state-of-the-art digital mammography machine at Wodonga hospital will be able to detect 40 per cent more breast cancers in Border and North East women.

Today is December 9, 2020 and this is your daily news briefing from The Border Mail. In today’s update, emergency services responded to a grass fire on the outskirts of Wodonga on Tuesday afternoon, and vandals have damaged equipment inside the building at the Chiltern swimming pool, after ransacking it on Monday night.

Today is December 8, 2020 and this is your daily news briefing from The Border Mail. In today’s update, an elderly cyclist has been flown to Melbourne in a life-threatening condition after an incident involving a truck in Yackandandah, and on the first day of masks no longer being mandatory indoors, coverings were still being worn by many Wodonga shoppers.