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►The season is in full swing for the junior Bowral Blacks.
The juniors have completed three rounds of competition and have demonstrated their growing strengths and skills.
►Check out the photos taken by Highlands sport spectators.
►The stars of the Southern Highlands danced their way to a new GAPS car for the Southern Highlands.
The inaugural Stars of Southern Highlands Dance for Cancer was held on May 19.
Ten business people from across the Highlands learnt a routine with a trained dance partner and performed in front of an audience of 300 people at Mittagong RSL.
►Tight skin all over the body, an exaggerated response to cold temperatures or emotional distress and acid reflux - These are just some of the symptoms suffered by more 5000 Australians currently diagnosed with scleroderma.
The condition can also affect the function of the heart, lungs or kidneys to varying degrees.
These problems, if left untreated, can become life-threatening. More here.
►Students from across Australia took the time to read about a cow jumping over the moon and learnt how to catch a star on Wednesday morning.
At 10am Wingello Public School students, along with thousands of others across Australia, sat down for National Simultaneous Storytime.
► A Highlands couple have become the world’s third largest donors of water pumps in some of the poorest Cambodian Villages.
Craig Hawkins and his wife Hannah travelled to Cambodia in 2010 and fell into a project that has continued to improve Cambodian people’s health and quality of life through access to clean drinking water. More here.
►Drugs, drink driving and car torched | Police News, May 25
TRAFFIC: All roads are clear in the Southern Highlands today. Drive safely and enjoy the journey.
TRAINS: Commuters can expect a good service on the Southern Highlands today.
WEATHER: A sunny day with patchy fog about higher ground early this morning, light winds becoming W 15 to 20 km/h in the late eveningand a daytime maximum temperature of 15 can be expected in the Highlands today.
Here's a look at what the local weather is doing right now:
7.00AM: Good morning and welcome to the Southern Highlands Rise and Shine. Over the next few hours we will be bringing you as much information as possible from across the Southern Highlands and nationally.
Weather, road conditions, breaking news, we will have it all - and we'd love to have your help! If there's anything happening in your part of the world, drop us a line! Email jackie.meyers@fairfaxmedia.com.au
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Regional news
►TASMANIA: Legislation to allow for euthanasia to take place in Tasmania has been voted down for the third time in less than a decade. Read more
►WA: A Nulsen man has been charged after he allegedly challenged a 53 wagon train by waving a piece of wood in a threatening manner. Read more
►BALLARAT: A victim's drawing of a man who stole $30,000 in gold set the internet on fire last month, but now Ballarat police have released an image of a suspect they want to speak to. Read more
►QUEENSLAND: Locking up paddocks with bulk feed and hoping for no more rain are two things you’d never expect a farmer to say. But for producers in south west Queensland battling Pimelea outbreaks, it’s a harsh reality. Read more
►VICTORIA: Bendigo man Michael O’Connor credits the work of one man, a mental health nurse, with saving his life. Read more
►WAGGA WAGGA: The inspiration for a Wagga son’s revolutionary news app came from an unlikely series of events.. Read more
►NSW: Having travelled half-way across the continent, Yanwyn Kirby trudges over the rain-softened earth under a swollen sky to catch up with his cousin, Les. Read more
►WA: Katherine maternity ward was bustling this weekend. Meet some of the region’s newest members here
National news
►Bill Shorten has signalled that Labor will back an ambitious outcome of the Indigenous constitution convention at Uluru, declaring: "It is our turn to step up, not to find fault, but to find common ground. Read more
►The Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet paid $1.3 million through recruitment firms to the company at the centre of what is allegedly one of the largest tax frauds in Australian history, a Senate estimates committee has heard. Read more
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World news:
►JAKARTA: Three police officers and two suspected suicide bombers have been killed in two explosions near a bus terminal in East Jakarta on Wednesday night. Read more
►BEIJING: Taiwan will become the first country in Asia to legalise same-sex marriage, after a landmark ruling by the constitutional court.Read more
On this day
FACES OF AUSTRALIA
Peter Baguley
Peter Baguley has been giving back for as long as he’s needed support.
He first came to the Salvos for assistance seven years ago. The organisation has since supported him through university, where he studied horticulture.
The Salvation Army volunteer will be collecting for the organisation’s Red Shield Appeal, which launched on Tuesday. Read more