Open to all age groups from Modified to Open, Benalla Netball Association’s Saturday Winter Competition will get under way on 17th April.
The competition will run for 12 weeks, followed by three weeks of finals for those sections which have finals.
Netta will also commence on Saturday 17 April, at 9.00 am. This competition is open to boys and girls [...]

Whatever your opinion on the decommissioning of Lake Mokoan might be, the debacle of last week surely brings the standard of democracy in the State of Victoria into serious question.
On Thursday 4 March 2010, Water Minister Tim Holding, accompanied by invited Benalla Rural City councillors, Goulburn Murray Water representatives and a band of reporters, gathered [...]

On Sunday 28 February, more than 1600 people took part in the  Act to Defeat Motor Neurone Disease, raising $53,000 for research into the debilitating disease. Committee spokesman Mr. Jim Myconos said, “It was a celebration of a community, and reinforced how much the Rodger family is valued and respected.”
On what proved to be [...]

They walked, they ran, they cycled to bring the total raised for research into Motor Neurone Disease to over $150,000. Lakeside in Benalla on Sunday 28 February 2010, and another huge community turn-out to support the third Mick Rodger Act to D-FEET Motor Neurone Disease, raising $53,000 on the day.

Pub conversations can take all sorts of forms – footy, cricket, netball, backing a winner, and wheelie bin racing. Wheelie bin racing? Yes! That’s what happened at the Thoona Hotel 11 years ago when wheelie bins had just been introduced. A group of locals, a few beers to stimulate the collective imagination, and bin-go! … [...]