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MBH digital edition, 26 August

Push to get year 12s vacced before exams

VICTORIA will push for all year 12 students to be vaccinated for COVID-19 by the time they start sitting their exams in October. The state...

Victoria to open up COVID-19 vaccines to all aged above 16

EVERY Victorian aged sixteen and above will be able to book a COVID-19 vaccine from Wednesday, 25 August as the state records fifty new...

Only 16 of latest 71 COVID-19 cases isolating

ONLY sixteen of Victoria's seventy-one latest COVID-19 cases were isolating while infectious, and the sources of twenty-two infections are a mystery. Premier Daniel Andrews has...

65 new COVID-19 cases as police and protesters clash

VICTORIA has recorded sixty-five new locally acquired COVID-19 cases from just over forty-four thousand tests for the virus conducted on Saturday. Health officials say 26,149...

Regional Victoria to return to lockdown

THE entire state of Victoria will be in lockdown from 1pm as authorities scramble to contain a rapidly growing cluster of COVID-19 centred on...

Victoria records 61 new COVID-19 cases

VICTORIA has recorded sixty-one new locally acquired COVID-19 cases, forty-eight of them linked to known outbreaks. Health officials say an additional 16 local cases have also...

Suburb by suburb snapshot – Huntly

Huntly is approximately 41.6 square kilometres and has five parks covering nearly 14.5 per cent of total area. The population of Huntly in 2011 was...

How COVID-19 is changing regional homes

An architecture firm is reporting a “surge” in demand for regional projects since the COVID-19 pandemic began, with an increase in requests for designs...

Shepparton outbreak grows to 12 cases, weekend community sport called off

A CORONAVIRUS outbreak in the Victorian town of Shepparton has grown again to twelve cases, with a decision on whether regional Victoria will be...

Victoria records 55 COVID-19 cases, new restrictions not ruled out

VICTORIA is facing its biggest battle since the state's second wave, having recorded fifty-five new local COVID-19 cases, thirty of which have been in...

57 new COVID-19 cases, most linked

VICTORIA has recorded fifty-seven new locally acquired coronavirus cases - the state's highest daily tally since the second wave - on its two-hundredth day...

Full digital edition, 19 August

MBH digital edition, 19 August

All Blacks thrash Wallabies in record win

THE All Blacks trashed the Wallabies 57-22 at Eden Park on Saturday night to seal their nineteenth straight Bledisloe Cup triumph. New Zealand recorded their...

Can the Bombers do damage in finals?

ESSENDON is peaking at the right time of the year and a win over Collingwood in round twenty-three will see them playing finals. Andrew McGrath,...

AFL in Tassie: Relocate or start new?

COLIN Carter, the author of the Carter Report into the viability of an AFL team in Tasmania, admits he would be disappointed if an...

Sex worker among Victoria’s COVID-19 cases

A SEX worker in Melbourne's southeast suburbs has tested positive for COVID-19. Health Minister Martin Foley said the sex worker, who lives in St Kilda,...

Melbourne lockdown extended, curfew back

MELBOURNE'S lockdown has been extended by two weeks and a night curfew will be reimposed, in an effort to stamp out the state's latest...

Bendigo and district netball results – 15 August

Bendigo Netball League ROUND 17   Eaglehawks’ Ashley Gilmore stops the ball up high. A GRADE Sandhurst...

Suburb by suburb snapshot – Ascot

The size of Ascot is approximately 9.8 square kilometres with a population recorded at 1342 in 2011 and by the 2016 Census it was...

Victoria wins five national awards

A restored one-hundred and forty-four-year-old church converted into dwellings, professional builders who excel in customer service, a stately townhouse development and a home selected...

Jab goal set, 15 COVID cases

VICTORIA has recorded fifteen new locally acquired COVID-19 cases, including three mystery cases, as the Premier announced a target of one million vaccine doses...

Full digital edition, 12 August