Regional Crime
A teenage boy has been charged after a loaded firearm and ammunition was seized during a motorcycle stop in Narrabri at the weekend. Officers attached to Traffic and Highway Patrol Command were conducting a vehicle stop in Narrabri at about 8.15pm on Saturday when they observed a motorbike being ridden by a male which appeared [...]
Regional News
THE Deepwater community is set to see one of its most recognisable local landmarks brought back into active use, with Glen Innes Severn Council approving a three-year Licence to Occupy for the Deepwater Progress Association at the Deepwater Railway Station. The decision was made at Council’s Ordinary Meeting on May 28, following an Expression of [...]
Our Community
MEMBERS of Lodge Courallie Moree joined Freemasons from across New South Wales at the weekend night to take part in the annual Masonicare Sleepout. The sleepout raises awareness of homelessness and financial hardship while supporting charitable programs that assist vulnerable people across New South Wales. The Moree lodge participated in the overnight event on Saturday [...]
Winter Shoot
CLAY target shooters from across the region will converge on Moree next month for the Moree Clay Target Club’s annual Winter Trap Carnival, locked in for July 4 and 5. The two-day event will incorporate the Brian Kneipp, Frank O’Neill and Tom Boydell memorial events and feature a full program of competition shooting, graded events [...]
Agriculture
NSW Farmers’ has welcomed the NSW Liberal and Nationals $300 million biosecurity and feral animal control policy announcement, as a significant step toward addressing a burgeoning crisis farmers have been managing almost alone for too long. NSW Farmers’ president Xavier Martin said the size of the investment recognised the seriousness of the challenge. “This is [...]
Parkes Electorate
IN the short time since the Federal Budget announcement, I have seen and heard a great deal of concern and confusion within the electorate of Parkes. Despite Labor’s repeated election promise they would not bring in any new taxes, they have done exactly that. Since they were elected, Labor has overseen the biggest fall in [...]
NAIDOC Celebrations
BASKETBALL NSW is preparing to celebrate NAIDOC Week 2026 with a series of community basketball events across regional New South Wales, including a major gala day involving young people from the Armidale region. Held from July 5 to July 12, NAIDOC Week this year carries the theme 50 Years Deadly, recognising the stories, achievements and [...]
Operation Soteria
POLICE have charged 16 people during a four-day high-visibility operation focused on preventing and disrupting crime in Tamworth. Between Wednesday, June 10 and Saturday, June 13, officers attached to Oxley Police District – assisted by Western Region Operations Support Group, Domestic Violence High Risk Offender Team and Youth Command – saturated the Tamworth area under [...]
2026 Golden Triangle
NOMINATIONS for the 2026 Talmoi picnic races – round three of bush racing’s Golden Triangle – close at 11am today. The historic bush meeting has been around since 1911, and this year features six races, including the 1400m Warren and Ruth Hunter Memorial Talmoi Cup and 1000m Helen Boland Memorial Talmoi Bracelet. Supporting races include [...]
Our Community
STAFF from the Moree branch of Regional Australia Bank on Friday hosted an information evening and social game of barefoot bowls at Moree Services Club to showcase the bank’s Community Partnership Program. About 40 members of Moree and district not-for-profits, sporting clubs and charity-driven organisations took to the undercover bowling greens, under the guidance of [...]
Border News
THE Queensland State Government will host its next Community Cabinet in Goondiwindi in August. Premier David Crisafulli and Ministers will meet with Southern Downs residents, businesses and organisations to listen and focus on the priorities that matter most to the community, following strong advocacy from Member for Southern Downs James Lister and Goondiwindi Regional Council [...]
Ronny’s Runners
MOREE junior athletics super-coach Ronny Clissold predicted five winners would return home after competing at the North West Primary Schools Sports Association regional cross country trials at Coolah’s Bowen Oval and the Coolah golf course on Thursday. And that’s exactly what happened – incredibly, from only eight races. A big team of Ronny’s Runners from [...]
Group 4 Rugby League
TEN tries to one said it all when Moree Boars first-grade delivered a 56-6 thumping to Boggabri Kangaroos under lights at Boughton Oval on Saturday night in round seven of the Group 4 rugby league competiton. The big win came despite a number of Moree players sidelined through injury. Moree winger Latrel Newman grounded the [...]
Agriculture
NSW Nationals Leader Gurmesh Singh and NSW Opposition Leader Kellie Sloane says an elected Liberal and Nationals Government will fund a $300 million biosecurity and control program for the co-ordination and management of feral animals to protect critical primary industries sector and conserve the environment. They said agriculture contributes about $25.5 billion per year to [...]
Recycling
THE New South Wales container deposit scheme, Return and Earn, has reached two major milestones with 16 billion bottles, cans and cartons returned by the community though local return points. This equates to $1.6 billion in refunds back to recyclers and more than $100 million raised for charities and community groups through donations and return [...]
2026 Golden Triangle
TALMOI picnic races at Garah, north-west of Moree, have long held a special place in the history of bush racing in New South Wales. The popular meeting combines more than a century of sporting tradition with a deeply entrenched community spirit that continues today. The Talmoi meeting is the third and final leg of bush [...]
Health
AFTER nearly six decades in pathology, long-serving collector at NSW Health Pathology’s Narrabri laboratory Ian Schweitzer is retiring. Mr Schweitzer has spent the past two years as a collector in Narrabri, but his career stretches back to 1967, when he began as the first full-time pathology staff member at Moree Hospital before moving to the [...]
Northern Tablelands
Several deserving Northern Tablelands locals received King’s Birthday Honours on Monday. Four people received Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) including Peter Kearsey who received his posthumously for his services to the Inverell community, Uralla’s Russell Clifton for service to the Rural Fire Service, Armidale’s William ‘Bill’ Oates for his work in the field [...]
