Regional coverage
Our Community
THIS week is National Volunteer Week, and children’s education charity The Smith Family is celebrating the role of volunteers in strengthening local communities, while helping to improve the lives of students experiencing disadvantage through education. With this year’s sector-wide National Volunteer Week theme being Connecting Communities, The Smith Family’s CEO Doug Taylor says volunteers play [...]
Operation Amarok X
NSW Police have charged 627 people with more than 1300 offences during a four-day statewide operation targeting domestic and family violence. Operation Amarok X ran from May 14 to May 17 and involved officers from all police area commands and police districts across New South Wales. The Domestic and Family Violence Command-led operation also involved [...]
Regional Sport
THE Koori Rugby League Knockout has been memorialised with a blue plaque in Sydney’s inner west, to celebrate the grassroots sporting competition. The plaque was unveiled on Friday at the first Koori Knockout venue, Camdenville Park, St Peters, to recognise what is considered one of the biggest annual gatherings of Aboriginal people in Australia. More [...]
Regional News
MORE women and children escaping domestic and family violence all across New South Wales will now be able to access support to end an abusive relationship and stay safely in their own homes, with the expansion of the Staying Home Leaving Violence (SHLV) program. The program has expanded to Narrabri and District Community Aid and [...]
Agriculture
ENERGY developers must fairly engage with the community and properly address the impacts of renewable projects on regions, NSW Farmers has told a state inquiry. On Tuesday, the state’s peak farm body appeared at a NSW Government inquiry into renewable energy zones, saying its calls to improve community engagement around the renewable transition were still [...]
Agriculture
COTTON growers from the Narrabri, Goondiwindi and Gunnedah regions have been named finalists in the 2025 Bayer Cotton Grower of the Year award and AgriRisk High Achiever of the Year award. Cotton Australia last week announced five finalists, with results to be announced at the Cotton Collective in Toowoomba in August. Thomas Popp, who farms [...]
Lifestyle
ALL roads lead to Moree picnic races on Saturday, May 24 – especially Route 33, the Queensland-based duo headlining the event’s huge after-party. Jock Barnes and Trent McArdle – aka Route 33 – have been busy in recent months as they prepare to again venture over the border. Barnes and McArdle recently featured on ABC [...]
Regional Tourism
Tamworth’s popular mid-year Hats Off To Country music festival will return this winter from July 11-13, with a number of Australia’s best country artists set to perform. The festival offers music lovers, locals and visitors a chance to enjoy country music outside of the large-scale festival held in January. More than 60 events will be [...]
Regional Health
ACCESS to holistic diabetes care for rural and remote communities across the Hunter and New England regions is set to improve with the launch of a new custom-built medibus, with visits to Narrabri, Wee Waa and Tamworth planned. The Medibus is a fully equipped mobile health clinic which brings specialist multi-disciplinary teams to towns with [...]
National Road Safety Week
WITH National Road Safety Week currently underway, Moree NRMA country service centre proprietor Doug Hill reminds motorists across north-western New South Wales to drive patiently and carefully as heavy machinery and road-trains go about their business during one the busiest times of the year for the agriculture sector. “The cotton harvest is in full swing, [...]
