🌊 Floods
How Murray Bridge survived the 1956 flood – in pictures
Ken Wells remembers well the biggest flood in the River Murray's modern history, thanks to a scrapbook he compiled at the time.
Peri Strathearn
I'm an award-winning, community-minded journalist who has lived and worked in South Australia's Murraylands since 2012.
🏛️ Council
Maurice, Hindmarsh Road speed limit will stay at 60km/h
A push by Councillor Tom Haig to have the limit reduced has fallen short.
Teenagers arrested over car break-ins in Murray Bridge’s west
Plus Murray Mallee police pick up several drivers for alleged traffic offences.
Mental health professional will help high schoolers
Murray Bridge High School will get one of 65 mental health practitioner positions being created in South Australia’s education system.
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Volunteers wanted for sports and recreation group
The Murray Bridge council is forming a new group to advise it on sporting grants and facilities.
Small businesses in Murray Bridge are finding it hard to get staff, survey finds
A shortage of housing, transport and childcare is making things difficult, the Office for Small and Family Business’ Leah Rusby has told Business Murray Bridge members.
🌊 Floods
Farmers take respite from the River Murray flood – and plan for recovery
Primary producers from up and down the Lower Murray have gathered for a catch-up and debrief in Murray Bridge.
🌊 Floods
Flood-stricken farmers are planning for recovery, but they need help
Primary producers from up and down the River Murray who have been affected by this summer’s floods will get together at a meeting in Murray Bridge this Friday.
🏛️ Council
Murray Bridge council watch: January 2023
A plan to rezone land for housing inches ahead, plus the city's mayor meets a Chinese official.
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Six reasons why it’s worth working with a real estate professional
In this month’s local property market update, Raine and Horne Murraylands’ Casey DeMichele and Michael Cox explain the benefits of selling through an agency instead of doing it yourself.
Ngarrindjeri photo project illustrates the history of a people
An electronic archive will give the Murraylands’ Indigenous people, and their descendants, new insight into the way their families have lived over the past 150 years.
Think Murray Bridge is a hotbed of unemployment? Think again
The local unemployment rate has fallen to just five per cent, its lowest level in more than 10 years.