9am: That's all for today. Have a great Wednesday... or should we be treating it as a Thursday, seeing as Friday is a public holiday?
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8.50am: They may no longer hold lamps while tending to the wounded, but Jeanette Cox is an example of the hard work and dedication shown by the people who give their lives to the nursing profession.
8.45am: Some of the finest horse and riders of their kind will converge on Young this weekend for the Regional NSW Dressage Championships.
8.30am: The Culcairn community is up in arms after several trees have been deliberately poisoned along the Olympic Highway near the bowling club.
8.10am: Shifts are being scaled back at the Coleambally and Deniliquin rice mills due to the smaller rice crop coming off in the Riverina.
SunRice employees won't be facing redundancies, the company's CEO Rob Gordon says, however affected staff will be offered employment at other regional sites.
7.50am: Two people have died in a mine collapse near Cessnock overnight.
Police were told eight miners were working about 500 metres below the surface when the wall collapsed, trapping two men.
7.30am: Easter is so close... schoolkids around the region donned their best Easter hats last week.
The Leeton Public School kids got very creative, and you can see 22 pics from their parade here.
Meanwhile, kids from Wagga, Holbrook, The Rock, Hay and further afield sent their pics in for this gallery.
7.15am: What did you think of last night's lunar eclipse, did you find a good spot to watch it?
Daily Advertiser reader Emma-Jane Gibbs sent us this great photo of the eclipse near Temora.
And then there's this great one from Francesca Vergara in Griffith.
We're putting all our reader photos into a gallery, so stay tuned - it's not far away!
7am: Some sad news from Wagga - the search for missing man Brent Little has come to an end after a body was pulled from the Murrumbidgee River yesterday.
Mr Little, a 23-year-old father-of-one, went missing on Friday night.
6.45am: Good morning.
Is something happening in your part of the Riverina? Email Daisy at dhuntly@fairfaxmedia.com.au or let us know on Twitter - @FairfaxRiverina.
The Riverina forecast from the Bureau of Meteorology: Partly cloudy. Patchy fog in the south early in the morning. Light winds. Overnight temperatures falling to around 9 with daytime temperatures reaching the low to mid 20s.
The South West Slopes and Plains forecast from the Bureau of Meteorology: Partly cloudy. Areas of morning fog in the south. Winds east to southeasterly 15 to 20 km/h becoming light in the morning. Overnight temperatures falling to between 4 and 8 with daytime temperatures reaching between 15 and 21.
Martin Lawrence (1965), Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977), Jon Cryer (1965), Pope Benedict XVI (1927), Dusty Springfield (1939-1999), Peter Garrett (1953).
1705 - Isaac Newton is knighted.
1746 - The Jacobite army is defeated in the Battle of Culloden, the last battle on British soil.
1880 - School is made compulsory for children aged six to 14 years in NSW. The Public Instruction Act 1880 required attendance for a period of not less than 70 days every half-year.
1951 - Seventy-five people die when the British ship Affray sinks in the English Channel.
2007 - Gunman Seung-Hui Cho kills 32 people and injures 23 others when he opens fire at Virginia Tech. He then committed suicide.
1. In which Australian state or territory would you find King's Canyon?
2. Who had a hit with the song Crocodile Rock?
3. Which national capital stands on the River Tiber?
4. In which city was Martin Luther King assassinated?
5. What creature appears on both the coat-of-arms and flag of South Australia?
