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8.55am: A Riverina road that was once deemed as "disgusting" and "an embarrassment" has now been given the thumbs up by residents. Which road?
8.45am: Griffith junior Connor Lynch has helped the under 18 national Indigenous rugby union side take out the second division at the national schoolboys carnival in Riverview. FULL STORY.
8.30am: Amanda Norman's dream to travel to Russia for life-changing treatment for multiple sclerosis is edging closer to reality.
A date has been set for Ms Norman to travel to Russia mid-next year and efforts to raise the $100,000 needed for the treatment are in full swing, with $15,000 collected for the cause to date. See how you can help.
8.15am: Cheese and whiskers! A rat has been blamed for a blackout in Wagga that cut power to about 600 premises and left some without electricity for more than two hours. Seriously, a rat.
7.55am: Wagga's indigenous community is in mourning following the death of Deadly Awards founder Gavin Jones on Saturday.
For 20 years the Deadly Awards had celebrated the pinnacle in indigenous achievement across a range of categories, including sport, music, community service and the media. FULL STORY.
7.45am: Three determined Griffith citizens have vowed to stage weekly protest marches in an effort to have the decision to close the city's CSIRO laboratory reversed. Details here.
7.30am: Griffith John Dal Broi has slammed the Office of Water's "archaic" allocation policy, claiming the state government was playing poker with the livelihoods of local irrigation farmers. Full story here.
7.15am: The Health Services union has been outraged by the Murrumbidgee Local Health District's (MLHD) plans to save money by cutting jobs.
There are unconfirmed reports up to 30 positions may go through a program of voluntary redundancies, but the health service is refusing to answer questions or reveal more than what is contained in a prepared statement.
7am: Good morning, Riverina.
Is something happening in your neck of the woods? Let us know by emailing Nicole on nbarlow@fairfaxmedia.com.au or tweeting @FairfaxRiverina.
The Riverina forecast from the Bureau of Meteorology: Partly cloudy. Areas of rain, easing to isolated showers early in the morning, clearing in the late afternoon. Light winds becoming northwesterly 15 to 20 km/h in the middle of the day. Overnight temperatures falling to around 6 with daytime temperatures reaching between 12 and 17.
The South West Slopes forecast from the Bureau of Meteorology: Cloudy. Rain, easing to isolated showers late in the morning. Snow showers in the south above 1300 metres, becoming less widespread in the late afternoon. Winds northerly 15 to 25 km/h turning west to northwesterly early in the morning. Overnight temperatures falling to between 3 and 7 with daytime temperatures reaching between 6 and 12.
Will Ferrell, Ginger Rogers, Jayma Mays, Adam Scott, Steve Hooker, Wendell Sailor, Brett Goldspink.
1892 - Claude Monet marries Alice Hoschede.
1948 - The first commercial plane hijacking occurs on a passenger seaplane operated by a subsidiary of Cathay Pacific.
1969 - Apollo 11 is launched from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida.
1999 - John F Kennedy, Jr, his wife Carolyn and sister-in-law Lauren Bessette die when the plane he was flying crashes into the Atlantic Ocean.
2012 - Russell Brand and Katy Perry divorce.
1. Who wrote David Copperfield?
2. How many legs does a lobster have?
3. In which country is The Hangover Part II set?
4. Roz and Bulldog are characters from which 90s TV comedy series?
5. What river runs through Paris?
