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Regional news
► MILDURA: Sunraysia farmers have raised concerns about who is going to pay for the further roll-out of the region’s latest irrigation modernisation project. Read more.
► KATHERINE: There are now more than 50 neighbours of the Tindal RAAF Base who are being supplied with water. Read more.
► HUNTER: A world-first clinical trial now underway in the Hunter is allowing some of its participants to walk again for the first time since suffering a devastating spinal cord injury or stroke. Read more.
MELBOURNE: Former Edenhope priest Gerald Ridsdale has faced court on fresh charges. Read more.
► ESPERANCE: Laurence Cruickshank has expressed concerns over a lack of signage for the nude beach at 10 Mile Lagoon. Read more.
► MOREE: Police will allege the three men arrested as part of a massive undercover operation this week were the upper-level suppliers of ice in the Moree area. Read more.
► MOUNT ISA: Robbie Katter has questioned a plan for a reduction of seats in Queensland Parliament, which would give people in the bush even less representation. Read more.
PORT AUGUSTA: A report by RAA shows Port Augusta is connected to one of the ten worst highway sections in South Australia and two of the best. Read more.
National news
► Three are dead and at least 25 people have been hospitalised following a police pursuit of a vehicle in the Melbourne CBD when the vehicle deliberately struck a number of pedestrians in the vicinity of Bourke and Queens Streets at approximately 1.30pm yesterday. Read more.
► In the uncertain and unpredictable new age of President Trump, Australian policymakers and diplomats will have to work harder than ever before to maintain the US alliance. Read more.
► Almost three years and some $200 million later, the underwater search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 is off and the plane has not been found. Barring a miraculous development, the mystery may never be solved. Explaining the decision, Transport and Infrastructure Minister Darren Chester insisted: "The cost hasn't been the deciding factor." Read more.
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International news
► WASHINGTON: Donald Trump started his presidency as he intends to continue – populist, anti-establishment and talking directly to an America that he sketched as a dark and dangerous place in desperate need of repair. Read more.
► INDONESIA: In a small village, deep in the lush green district of Probolinggo in East Java, a 53-year-old farmer's wife was haunted by dreams of a monkey. Read more.
Faces of Australia: Dexter Kruger
Having a resident reach 107 years of age is a grand feat but having two at the same retirement village would leave anybody asking, what is in the water at Roma?
Dexter Kruger and Olive Reade celebrated their major milestone on January 13 and 17 at the Pinaroo Roma Inc. aged care facility.
During his lifetime, Mr Kruger purchased his own land, was accredited and had authority to operate as a rural vet surgeon and was the pioneer of the live-weight cattle selling system. Read more.