🏗️ Growth
‘Telling the story’ is key to economic development, council strategy says
Murray Bridge doesn’t just need more houses, public transport and business investment – it needs to work on its reputation, too.
Peri Strathearn
I'm an award-winning, community-minded journalist who has lived and worked in South Australia's Murraylands since 2012.
🗓 Things to Do
Things to do in the Murraylands: July 10-16, 2026
Your guide to everything happening in Murray Bridge and surrounds this week, including school holiday activities.
🏗️ Growth
Data centres meeting will be held at Tailem Bend next week
Firmus Technologies will answer questions from Murraylands residents about its plans for the region.
🙂 Good News
High school student wins statewide NAIDOC award
Murray Bridge teenager Joseph Ribbons has received the Dr Alice Alitya Rigney Prize for 2026.
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Worried about the property market? Here’s why big city doom and gloom doesn’t apply here
Don’t believe everything you hear in the national media, say Raine and Horne Murraylands’ Michael Cox and Casey DeMichele.
🙂 Good News
Moorundi executive Steve Sumner wins Premier’s NAIDOC Award for 2026
The Ngarrindjeri elder and outgoing health service executive has been recognised for a lifetime of work making life better for his people.
📷 Social Photos
Social photos: NAIDOC family fun day
See who has been seen out and about in the Murraylands this week, thanks to Spry Holdings.
🏗️ Growth
New development planned at Thomas Foods International plant
The meat processing company has filed a proposal for its Pallamana site, just outside Murray Bridge.
Reader survey 2026: Win Drakes and 1924 vouchers, books and more
Plus an update to Murray Bridge News subscription prices.
🚨 Crime and Fire
Truck trailer destroyed by fire at Moorlands
Plus three teenagers are injured in a road crash at Toora, a stolen boat is recovered and two people are reported for cannabis possession.
Country Education Foundation will offer grants to Murray Mallee students
But first, its committee needs to keep raising the funds it plans to give away.
🙂 Good News
Nine outstanding Ngarrindjeri recognised with NAIDOC Week awards
Elders, young people, workers and more have been celebrated at ceremony in Murray Bridge in 2026.