Subscriber giveaway – July 2023

Win a pair of Elton John tribute show tickets, plus garden stakes from Regional Profile Cutters and Murray Bridge News merchandise.

🏆 Sport

Sports reports: Eastern are SA country champions for 2023

Plus the latest in Murray Bridge rifle shooting, golf and soccer.

📷 Social Photos

Social photos: Walk or run for NAIDOC Week 2023

See our photos from Sunday's Indigenous Marathon Foundation event at Sturt Reserve, Murray Bridge.

‘Big battery’ planned at Murray Bridge North

A company called Akaysha Energy has filed plans for a 200-megawatt energy storage system just outside Murray Bridge.

🏛️ Council

Coorong council trims rate increase to 9.5 per cent

Property rates will still go up in 2023-24, but not by quite as much as expected after councillors and staff found more than $900,000 worth of savings.

Walk of the month: Kinchina Conservation Park, Rocky Gully

Graham Hallandal guides you along the Jailhouse Rocks and Getaway Car loop trails at this park on Murray Bridge’s western outskirts.

Monarto Safari Park visitor centre wins top architecture award

Adelaide firms Intro and Studio Gram have won the industry’s top prize in South Australia for the landmark building at the former zoo.

Grateful dad offers Murray Bridge community free basketball coaching

To thank Murray Bridge folk for helping his son to compete in a Melbourne basketball tournament, a local man is offering free basketball lessons.

Murray Bridge High School students win innovator award in IT industry competition

Murray Bridge High School has won a 2023 South Australian and Northern Territory iAward at an Australian Information Industry Association awards ceremony.

🗓 Things to Do

Things to do in Murray Bridge: July 7–13, 2023

All you need to know about school holiday activities at Monarto Safari Park, Murray Bridge Regional Gallery and all around the Murraylands.

Who are the RMFL’s premiership, Mail Medal and goalkicking favourites for 2023?

With seven rounds to go, commentators Shane Snell and Matt Hood sort out the contenders and the pretenders for end-of-season honours.

Where to from here for the Murray-Darling Basin Plan? Five experts weigh in

Climate change? Water buybacks? Some old arguments are firing up again as a review of the all-encompassing plan for the River Murray approaches.