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A WYCHEPROOF man allegedly punched and killed his family friend after a bout of horseplay at the local golf club, a court has heard. Twenty-eight-year-old Dane Edward McLennan – the man accused of killing 56-year-old John Durie – appeared in the Supreme Court on Thursday for the start of his …

NEW coronavirus exposure sites have been listed in Greater Bendigo as a V/Line contractor tests positive to the virus. The Department of Transport confirmed a person working on the Bendigo and Echuca Line Upgrade returned a positive test on Thursday.

AFTER laying the foundations to a successful new era over the last four years at South Bendigo, coach Jannelle Hobbs says she is eager to finish what she has started. The two-time BFNL premiership coach has re-signed for the 2022 season and has set her sights firmly on lifting the …

There's no doubt it was a tough season for North Bendigo in the Central Victoria Football League Women's competition. Bulldogs went through the

A NORTHERN Victorian man who repeatedly sexually abused a young boy in the 1980s has been jailed for 12 years. The 76-year-old fronted the County Court on Thursday for his plea hearing and sentencing.

Having just her second start back after a 10-month layoff with injury at Bendigo's Lord's Raceway on Tuesday night, the five-year-old returned to the winner's list for the first time since October last year.

A Loddon Mallee Public Health Unit spokesperson said the new Bendigo case was not acquired in Bendigo. "The COVID-19 positive case acquired the infection from elsewhere in the state and is isolating," the spokesperson said.

A close contact of a positive COVID-19 case visited the La Trobe Bendigo campus, but is yet to test positive themselves.

Victoria has recorded more than 700 daily coronavirus cases for the first time. The state has seen 766 new infections since Wednesday – all locally acquired. It is the highest number of daily infections in Victoria ever with the previous highest being 686 on August 4,

A BENDIGO drug trafficker will appeal his jail term after he admitted to dealing methamphetamine to his friends. Shane Keely, 27, appeared in the Bendigo Magistrates' Court on Wednesday where he pleaded guilty to using and trafficking methamphetamine.