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Isaac Peckover is loving life on the dream team at Ahrns Electrical

With the final exam of his apprenticeship completed, Isaac Peckover is about to be a fully qualified electrician, and there’s nowhere else he’d rather be than Murray Bridge.

🚨 Crime and Fire

Watch out for speed cameras this weekend

Plus police arrest a Murray Bridge driver for various offences and warn about rural property theft.

Murraylands’ unemployment rate sneaks up from historic low

The unemployment rate in Murray Bridge rose to 4.4 per cent in the first quarter of 2025, according to the latest estimates.

🙂 Good News

ABC partners with Murray Bridge News on content-sharing project

You might see some ABC News content on this website during the next few weeks as part of the Australian Local News Resilience Project.

🏗️ Development

Murray Bridge’s new timber wharf is officially open

A boat terminal and fishing spot at Sturt Reserve has reopened with the completion of a replacement wharf – and the Murray Princess is back, too.

Murray-Darling Basin Plan is helping our river, but more needs to be done

Delegates have gathered at an event in Murray Bridge, River Reflections, ahead of a major review of the national water agreement.

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I’m thinking of selling my home – how much is it worth?

Raine and Horne Murraylands’ Michael Cox and Casey DeMichele take a look at a critical issue for any vendor at a time when the answer may change from month to month.

🏗️ Development

Ares Armaments hopes to establish guided weapons factory in Murray Bridge

Exclusive: Our region is ideally placed to become a second defence industry hub for South Australia, an emerging ammunitions manufacturer says.

🕰️ History

Century-old footy trip photos show Murray Bridge as it was in 1925

Photographs taken on a tour by the West Broken Hill Football Club give a rare insight into life and progress in the Murraylands in the 1920s.

🗓 Things to Do

SALA Festival 2025: Your guide to what’s on in the Murraylands

Eleven exhibitions will showcase works by South Australia’s living artists around our region this August.

Carp virus is still on the agenda, DAFF says

The federal Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry has launched a new round of research into a proposed solution for feral fish in the Murray-Darling Basin.

🗳️ Vote

Independent Airlie Keen confirms second election tilt in Hammond

Exclusive: Murray Bridge’s Deputy Mayor will contest the 2026 state election as an independent candidate.