NEAR-record breaking rainfall through the state’s Alpine Shire earlier this week was expected to result in floodwaters just shy of the major level overnight in Wangaratta.
Some 30 years after Wangaratta’s 1993 one-in-100-year October floods, the rural city on Thursday braced for near-major floods for the second time in as many years, following torrential falls in the Ovens River catchmen...