Regional coverage
Australia Day
ACCLAIMED concert soloist, Australian-French flautist Jane Rutter has been named as the 2025 Australia Day Ambassador for Inverell Shire. With a career spanning decades, Ms Rutter has delighted audiences with numerous recitals and recordings, plus concerto, theatre and television performances. Ms Rutter, knighted in France under Chevalier des Arts et Lettres, has popularised classical flute. [...]
Sponsored Content
IT all came about in 2020, and now health and fitness centre, Loded Strength & Conditioning – incorporating CrossFit 2400 – is the go-to venue for Moree residents and visitors to town. Owned and managed by fitness gurus Trent Loder and Ashleigh Berger, Loded Strength & Conditioning came into being when Trent and Ashleigh purchased [...]
Police News
A teenage boy has been charged over an alleged stabbing at Inverell. Just after 4.45pm on Friday, January 17, police were called to a hospital in Inverell following reports of a teenager with a stab wound. Officers attached to New England Police District were told the 17-year-old boy was involved in a fight with another [...]
Northern Tablelands
NSW TrainLink has proposed to introduce new services as well as improve routes and timetables. You can have your say on proposed bus routes and timetables slated to be introduced in mid-2026. The new services would include a bus service from Armidale to Port Macquarie and return on Tuesdays, Fridays and Sundays. It would allow [...]
Public Health
GOONDIWINDI Regional Council has provided an important update following a Queensland Health statement on Friday regarding the Japanese Encephalitis Virus case at Townsville University Hospital, which is believed to have been contracted in Yelarbon, about 50km east of Goondiwindi. JEV can only be spread by the bite of an infected mosquito and does not spread [...]
Regional News
LANESCAPE, an exciting public art project set to illuminate the Goondiwindi CBD for at least the next five years, has the full support of Goondiwindi Regional Council. The project, Illuminate the Flow, is an innovative night-time video installation that projects animated artworks onto Goondiwindi water towers, adding a dynamic new feature to the Goondiwindi Region’s [...]
Public Health
IT is believed a middle-aged man has contracted the mosquito-borne disease, Japanese encephalitis, while in the Goondiwindi region during the Christmas period. Queensland Health confirmed the infection, saying the man was being treated at Townsville University Hospital. The man is reportedly in a stable condition. Preliminary investigations by the Queensland State Government suggest the man [...]
Agriculture
THE Country Mayors Association of NSW executive board has welcomed the recent announcement by the NSW Government that they intend to remove some of the red-tape that has prevented farmers from using their water to fight fires on their property and adjacent land. It’s understood the legislative improvements include the provision that a landholder can [...]
Missing Persons
POLICE are appealing for assistance to locate a man missing from Glen Innes in the state’s New England region. Jordie Zarro, aged 27, was last seen about 6pm on Wednesday, January 15 at a licensed premises on Grey Street, Glen Innes. When he could not be located or contacted, officers attached to New England Police [...]
Regional News
MEMBER for Northern Tablelands Brendan Moylan is encouraging local organisations, schools and community groups to apply for funding to maintain and make any repairs to war memorials across the region. Grants of up to $10,000 per project are available for as part of the State Government’s Community War Memorials Fund. The grants program was established [...]
