One person is dead another has been airlifted to hospital after a truck rollover in Maude, near Meredith, this morning. Read more.

The North Ballarat Football Club will relinquish control of Eureka Stadium within a fortnight as the City of Ballarat looks to take action on its compulsory acquisition. Read more.

A world class mountain bike trail at Creswick will be one of the top destinations in the state for riding enthusiasts. Read more.

Ballarat Health Services’ mental health unit will be the recipient of a major funding boost through the state government’s facilities renewal grants scheme. Read more.

A 26-year-old Ballarat man who was recruited to help settle a drug debt faces jail time. Read more.

Mostly sunny and a top of 23 degrees.

Need a national news snapshot first thing - well, we have you covered.

► KATHERINE: FROM whether pastoralism and gas can co-exist to gender equality at both a station and management level, some of the heavy hitters in the northern beef game weighed in on key issues at an industry conference in Darwin last week. Full story.

► PORT MACQUARIE: For 50 years Darcey Browning has, in his own words, been “prowling around the bush” but he’s never seen anything like it.

He’s shown photos of the humongous fungus to friends around Bellingen and he’s still none the wiser. Full story and photos.

► SOUTHERN HIGHLANDS:  Southern Highlands villagers can now decide if they would like to connect to the nbn with the activitation of more fixed-wireless towers. Full story.

►TASMANIA: The Supercars are coming to town for the Tasmania SuperSprint on April 7-9, and each year the transporter trucks parade through Perth, Launceston, Invermay, Rocherlea and back to Symmons Plains. Full story.

►GOULBURN: The State Government is inviting holidaymakers and locals to share videos of their short breaks in Southern NSW, as part of a marketing campaign to promote travel to rural and regional NSW. Full story.

►BALLARAT: A simple sentence sums up the illness at the heart of a disastrous hardware venture for the board and shareholders of Woolworths over seven long years.

“Some of the last things we sold had been there since the store opened.” Full story.

►SYDNEY ROYAL EASTER SHOW: On an ordinary day at work, rodeo clown Dennis Halstead has felt warm bull's snot run down his neck, seen a cowboy killed before him on an otherwise unremarkable Sunday afternoon, broken bones and lost all his teeth. Full story.

►PM ON SYRIAN GAS ATTACK: Removing Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad in response to his latest chemical weapons attack would exacerbate chaos from the country's long running civil war and could see an even more dangerous leader installed, a former Australian ambassador in the region has warned. Full story.

►CANBERRA: The Liberal Party's federal director Tony Nutt has quit ahead of what is expected to be a critical review of the last federal campaign, in which the Coalition scraped home with a one-seat victory. Full story.

►SYDNEY: A Liberal by-election candidate already backtracking on claims to have spent a decade in her electorate is refusing to say whether she misled former Prime Minister John Howard with another claim about her past residence. Full story.

►WASHINGTON: Days after President Donald Trump's warm embrace of Egyptian tyrant Abdel Fattah el-Sisi and the US administration declared it had no interest in ousting Syrian despot Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian leader is accused of gassing his own people - again. Full story.

►JAKARTA: Australian archaeologist Adam Brumm had hoped to find prehistoric jewellery in an Indonesian cave but he did not know its discovery would help challenge the long-held view that early humans in south-east Asia were less culturally advanced than people elsewhere. Full story.

►BEIJING: China will come bearing small gifts, and take the measure of the man who has become the wildcard of global politics, eyeball to eyeball. Full story.

1909 - Americans Robert Peary and Matthew Henson claimed to be the first men to reach the North Pole. 

1916 - Charlie Chaplin became the highest-paid film star in the world when he signed a contract with Mutual Film Corporation for $675,000 a year. He was 26 years old. 

1917 - The U.S. Congress approved a declaration of war on Germany and entered World War I on the Allied side. 

1924 - Four planes left Seattle on the first successful flight around the world. 

1985 - William J. Schroeder became the first artificial heart recipient to be discharged from the hospital. 

1998 - Citicorp and Travelers Group announced that they would be merging. The new creation was the largest financial-services conglomerate in the world. The name would become Citigroup. 

1998 - Federal researchers in the U.S. announced that daily tamoxifen pills could cut breast cancer risk among high-risk women. 

Bill Ross was a 2000 Sydney Olympics torch carrier and WIN News TV presenter. 

But it’s his nearly 50 years of behind-the-scenes teaching and coaching that will be most remembered by three generations of Griffith students. 

Mr Ross has decided to retire from teaching and sports administration at St Patrick’s Catholic School in Griffith, after more than four decades of service. Find out more.