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Telstra has switched on Benalla’s first 5G base station, bringing the latest mobile technology to the Rural City for the first time. Benalla is among the first cities in Victoria’s north-east to experience the new 5G network and joins 60 cities and towns across Australia.

You don't have to fly to England or Canada to experience a quintessential "little country village". Just drive to Avenel, its only an hour away. Avenel even operates like a small village, everyone friendly and thoughtful just like Three Pines in Louise Penny's novels.

Funding for the redevelopment of Benalla's Art Gallery has been included in the state budget which was handed down by Victoria's treasurer Tim Pallas on Tuesday, November 24. It also includes funding for the new Benalla campus of Wangaratta District …

Forty-eight new (FFMVic) firefighters will be ready to respond to bushfires this summer. The new recruits have recently completed rigorous training courses at Alexandra, Benalla, Ovens and Corryong where they learnt the skills needed to protect communities from bushfires.

Award-winning bush poet Roderick Williams has been travelling the red road since he was a boy. A lifetime of hard graft in sheering sheds up and down the country has taken its toll, but in retirement Roderick is still producing critically acclaimed poetry.

Benalla seems to have survived another COVID-19 scare after testing failed to find a local source of a coronavirus – despite traces being found in wastewater. On Thursday, November 19, the Department of Health and Human Services announced it had found traces of the virus that causes coronavirus in untreated …

Coaches have been replacing trains on the line since the NSW and Victorian border was closed in early July, allowing the North-East Rail Line Upgrade to be fast-tracked. Passenger trains will return to the improved line on Tuesday,

Benalla officially has a new council, but the mayor and deputy mayor have not changed. Danny Claridge was nominated by Peter Davis and seconded by Bernie Hearn before being unanimously voted in as Benalla Rural City Council Mayor for the next 12 months.

Victorian Premier Dan Andrews has released a statement confirming that fragments of the virus that causes coronavirus were detected in untreated wastewater taken from Portland and Benalla wastewater treatment plants on Tuesday,

Benalla mayor Danny Claridge will continue to lead the city's council for another year after being re-elected to the position last night. Cr Claridge was first elected to council in 2016, and in 2019 become the city's mayor. Deputy mayor Bernie Hearn was …