Murray Bridge News

16/10/2025

Have you driven past the big battery on Mannum Road? It's just been finished – now it can power 16,000 homes.

A new battery energy storage system is now up and running at Mannum after completing construction, earlier this month.

16/10/2025

Your weekly local headlines:
👨‍💼Golden North reveals plans
🌱Climate change experiment
❓Linear park renamed?

Find out more in today’s edition or subscribe at www.murraybridge.news

15/10/2025

Looking to meet some great people while making yourself useful this summer? Try joining Murray Bridge Lifesaving Club. 🛟

Thanks to Outside Developments for helping us promote local volunteering.

Erin Scammell invites you to get involved with life saving in Murray Bridge.

15/10/2025

When I sent out the first edition of Murray Bridge News in April 2020, it dropped into just over 400 subscribers’ inboxes.

It felt amazing at the time. A week after being stood down from my old job, hundreds of people were already following along.

I couldn’t have imagined the journey ahead: staff, an office, a screen network, a magazine, and a meteoric rise to become the most widely-read news publication in South Australia’s Murraylands.

But today we hit a big milestone: 5000 subscribers. That means almost 20 per cent of our region’s population gets our email edition every Thursday. (That’s up to 40% of local households. And that’s not counting the thousands more who follow our socials or see our screen network every week.)

Does that mean we’re making boatloads of money? Heck no! As an independent local, we don’t typically get any advertising from governments or national corporations. We rely on readers and local businesses to pay our wages. Please consider advertising if you’re able!

For now, though: to all 5000 of you, from the friends and family members who were on the list from the start, to Gale who became our 5000th subscriber this morning, thank you.

(And if you feel like you’re missing out, it’s not too late – sign up for free, or chip in a few bucks a month to support us, at https://www.murraybridge.news/ #/portal/signup.)

–Peri Strathearn, managing editor

15/10/2025

What should the Coorong District Council's priorities be between now and 2030?

Here's your chance to say.

It's time for the residents of the Coorong District Council to have their say on the future plan for their district.

14/10/2025

There will be no Sixth Street Fringe party in Murray Bridge next year.

Councillors have voted to end their support for an annual Sixth Street party and focus on other major events instead.

14/10/2025

In local sport this week:
🏆 Murray Bridge Racing Club's Gold Cup is run and won
⚫ The Lower Murray bowls season begins
🏏 Murray Towns Cricket Association's A grade beefs up
🐴 Locals win in the carriage driving
and more...

Plus the latest in Lower Murray bowls, Murray Towns cricket, carriage driving, golf, darts and netball.

14/10/2025

Can native plants make Murray Bridge more comfortable as the climate gets hotter?

Scientists hope to find out with this SA-first experiment.

A woody meadow will help scientists assess the suitability of low-maintenance, drought-tolerant native plants for the warmer, drier climate the Murraylands may experience by 2050.

13/10/2025

Congrats to the team at Bowhill Engineering on their award win!

A Murraylands company has been recognised for its excellence in training employees.

13/10/2025

A convoy of motorcyclists will pass through Murray Bridge this weekend on a mission to save Australians from depression.

Can you join them, or donate to the cause?

An eight day bike ride helping raise awareness on depression and su***de prevention is coming to Murray Bridge, on Saturday.

13/10/2025

Were you at the Gold Cup over the weekend? Check out our social photo gallery, thanks to Genuine Support Services Australia.

See who has been seen out and about in the Murraylands this week, thanks to Genuine Support Services Australia.

12/10/2025

Now free to read: Want to try your hand at drumming? This Mannum local can get you started. 🪘

A drumming class in Mannum is helping raise much-needed funds for children in schools from Indonesia and Ghana.