Regional coverage
Parkes Electorate
This is my first column as the Federal Member for Parkes, an electorate that covers more than 400,000 square kilometres of New South Wales. It’s an area bigger than Japan, Germany, or even Great Britain. I follow in the footsteps of some great Federal Members, most recently the Honourable Mark Coulton who ably represented this [...]
Our Community
AN incredible journey across Australia to raise much-needed funds for cancer research and support made a pitstop at Croppa Creek this week, en route to Byron Bay on the New South Wales north coast. The Kicking Cancer’s A55 Across Australia tour began six weeks ago from Australia’s most western point – Steep Point in the [...]
Regional News
NEW firefighting trucks were handed over to the Tamworth area and more than 45 NSW Rural Fire Service volunteers recognised at a ceremony in Westdale on Sunday. Superintendent Paul Metcalfe was joined by special guests at the Tamworth Fire Control Centre to present 49 Long Service Medals to volunteers with combined service of more than [...]
Missing Person
UPDATE: Adam has been found. NSW Police are appealing for assistance to locate well-known Moree resident Adam Love. Adam, aged 42, was last seen on Warialda Street, Moree, on Saturday, July 12, 2025. When he could not be located or contacted, officers attached to New England Police District were notified and commenced inquiries into his [...]
Pilliga Forest
THE endangered Shark Bay bandicoot is adapting to a feral predator-free life in north-western New South Wales, two years after the species was reintroduced to the Pilliga State Conservation Area. A photograph of a female bandicoot with three young at foot inspired confidence among ecologists who have closely monitored the species since it was flown [...]
Regional Tourism
TAMWORTH Regional Council has officially reopened the extraordinary Gil Bennet Rocks, Gems and Minerals Collection at its new location in Nundle. The relocation, at 8 Innes Street, marks an exciting new chapter for the collection, which showcases more than 1300 specimens collected by the late Gilmour (Gil) Thomas Bennet. The Nundle Visitor Information Outlet was [...]
State Award
YALLAROI’s Sally Poole has been named Athletes’ Athlete at the 2025 Queensland Triathlon Awards, held at the Garden Room, Victoria Park, Brisbane earlier this month. Sally, a land services officer with Local Land Services in Moree, has competed at local, regional, national and world championship levels in the past 10 years. The Queensland Triathlon Awards [...]
Youth News
THE Youth Booth in Glen Innes has been named a finalist in the 2025 Local Government Week Awards for delivering one of the most outstanding Youth Week programs in New South Wales. The recognition follows the success of this year’s Youth Week celebrations, which brought together young people from across the Glen Innes Severn to [...]
Road Safety
NSW Police are urging drivers to get home safely ahead of heavy traffic expected over the weekend as families return from holidays. Many cars are expected to be on roads across the state as they head home before school returns next week. There have been 10 deaths during the past two weeks since the school [...]
Regional News
MOTORISTS on the Oxley Highway are enjoying smoother and safer journeys with $12.5 million of improvements now completed about 50 kilometres west of Gunnedah. The upgrades to a six-kilometre stretch of the highway at Goolhi included widening the road, widening nine culverts for improved drainage, installing safety barriers and resealing the section of road. Transport [...]
