Regional coverage
Water Resources
NORTHERN Basin irrigators will be banned from floodplain capturing after the NSW Government increased the Menindee Lakes storage trigger from 195 gigalitres up to 250 gigalitres – a downstream rule is being used to narrow upstream users’ access. The announcement came without consultation with irrigators, nor has it included any form of compensation for those [...]
Social Media
A comprehensive study of Australia’s world-first social media minimum age requirement to understand how the new obligation on platforms is working in practice – and what impact it is having on children, young people and families – will be undertaken by eSafety. The study will assess how the minimum age is being implemented, examine both [...]
Wellbeing
WOMEN in eight regions across New South Wales, including Wee Waa, Walcha and Manilla, will have access to practical wellbeing and self-care training with the launch of free women’s wellbeing workshops ahead of NSW Women’s Week. The NSW Government is supporting regional and rural women’s mental health with this partnership with Rural Adversity Mental Health [...]
Regional News
RSL NSW has the road for the 2026 Listening Tour, with stopovers in Tamworth today and Inverell tomorrow. The tour gives members across New South Wales the opportunity to help shape the future direction of the state’s largest veterans’ charity. The Inverell leg will take place at the Inverell RSM Club at 10.30am tomorrow. As [...]
Mason Remembered
THE crowd gets bigger and bigger each year – and so do the fish. Anglers will once again bait up and cast their lines at the 2026 Mason Daley Memorial Cod Classic along the banks of the Gwydir River from midday, March 13 to midday, March 15, to honour one of Gravesend’s best-remembered young locals, [...]
Regional Tourism
NARRABRI Shire will host this year’s Visitor Experiences Summit on March 10-11, bringing together tourism and visitor experience operators from across country and outback New South Wales for invaluable learning and networking opportunities. Hosted by Destination Country and Outback NSW, the state’s largest destination network covering 45 per cent of NSW, the summit rotates locations [...]
Energy Saver
THE Barwon electorate leads New South Wales in rooftop solar with more than 24,000 homes and businesses fitted with solar panels. The latest data reveals households and businesses in regional New South Wales are leading the charge in rooftop solar adoption, accounting for nine of the top ten electorates for installations. New South Wales leads [...]
Agriculture
GUNNEDAH Shire Council will meet with key stakeholders from across the northern basin on Thursday to collaborate on submissions for the 2026 Murray-Darling Basin Plan Review. This is the Murray-Darling Basin Authority’s first major review of the Plan, implemented in 2012, and Gunnedah Shire councillor and Murray Darling Association Region 11 chair Robert Hoddle said [...]
National Debt
FAMILY First national director and NSW Legislative Council candidate, Lyle Shelton, has expressed alarm at revelations from former Treasurer Peter Costello that Australia now carries almost $20,000 in net debt for every man, woman, child and baby. Mr Costello told the Aspire conference in Sydney on Tuesday, that 20 years ago Australia had no net [...]
Law and Order
A man has faced court on drug and pursuit charges and was bail-refused, following a police pursuit near Narrabri yesterday. He will reappear in court at Moree early next month. Officers attached to Oxley Police District were conducting patrols on the Kamilaroi Highway at Turrawan about 11.30am yesterday, when they observed a Mazda sedan allegedly [...]
