Weather helps fire crews as blazes rage
Cooler conditions and rain have given crews a reprieve as they try to contain bushfires threatening Dargo and Bunyip in Victoria’s east.
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Schools close amid bushfire crisis
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Elderly woman dead, man under police guard
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Fire threats ease but blazes rage across state
Rain has helped firefighters stop a bushfire from threatening Dargo and slow down two merging out-of-control blazes northwest from the town. Earlier, a grassfire in Bangholme threatened lives and homes before being contained as fires continue to rage across the state’s east. LATEST PHOTOS, VIDEO
![Henley has joined forces with Brown Property Group and 200 local trades and suppliers to build the 69thHenley charity home, to be auctioned off wholly for the fight against Motor Neuron Disease (MND).As part of the FightMND campaign, spearheaded by Co-Founder and AFL great, Neale Daniher, a 38 square double- story Henley home, built in Brown Property GroupÕs master-planned Meridian community, Clyde North, will be donated and will sell on Saturday 2nd March 2019. The trades people who helped build the house give it a christening with an ice-bath in the name of charity [left to right rear] Rob Williams, Carolyn Hutchinson, Daughter Brittney Hutchinson, Rhys Reddaway and Broden Kruijer-Hall in the bath. Picture: Alex Coppel](https://content.api.news/v3/images/bin/3e0a07aac66533a4279e9e1dd03cfa20?width=650)
FightMND house open for inspection
Hundreds of tradies and suppliers have given their time, effort and products to build a free house for Neale Daniher’s FightMND charity and now it’s open for inspection ahead of its impending auction.
Girl found in Frankston park, reunited with family
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Young have say on parkland road closure
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