Regional coverage
Community health
INTERESTED stakeholders now have more time to have their say on the Health Services Amendment (Splitting of the Hunter New England Health District) Bill 2025 with the deadline for submissions extended to May 8. The proposed Bill aims to dissolve the current Hunter New England Local Health District to establish two new districts – Hunter [...]
Moree on a Plate
SEAFOOD is on just about everyone’s shopping list this week, with Easter just days away. Roberta Muir, Moree on a Plate’s celebrity presenter at this year’s food and wine festival, wants to share some of her seafood recipes with Moree Online News readers – and she knows what she’s talking about. Roberta ran Australia’s largest [...]
Road Safety
POLICE are urging motorists to take extra care during the school holidays and over Easter following an increase in fatalities on the state’s roads. Deputy Commissioner Paul Pisanos said the number of lives lost on our roads this year has already reached an alarming level, with 39 crashes resulting in 41 people killed in March, [...]
Save Wee Waa Hospital
THE NSW Opposition is calling on the Minns Labor Government to make restoring crucial 24-hour services at Wee Waa Hospital a top priority as the situation reaches breaking point. The facility is only open during office hours on most days due to chronic staff shortages, forcing anyone who needs emergency care after 5pm to travel [...]
Federal Election
LOCAL councils across the Parkes Electorate will be able to set their own priorities to deliver more community infrastructure and better roads, as part of a $1 billion funding commitment – including nearly $4 million to the Moree Plains – should a Coalition Government be elected to run the country. The Nationals candidate for Parkes, [...]
Youth Crime Crisis
THE Opposition continues to push for strong legislative reform to deal with the regional youth crime crisis across the state, as NSW Nationals Leader Dugald Saunders visited Moree on Monday after the Coalition’s Crimes Legislation Amendment (Youth Crime) Bill 2025 was introduced to Parliament at the end of last month. Mr Saunders joined Member for [...]
Regional Art
TAMWORTH Regional Gallery is currently showing two captivating exhibitions with Overhead and Underneath – Lessons in Observation from regionally-based artists and The Good by Anna Louise Richardson. Overhead and Underneath features artworks from 23 artists from the New England and Riverina areas. Each of the artworks invites onlookers to take a moment to look overhead [...]
Queensland Floods
EMERGENCY crews are continuing to assist with response and clean-up efforts across western Queensland, as river heights start receding in some areas enough to allow residents to return home for the first time in weeks. Some Adavale residents who were evacuated on March 27 due to fast-rising floodwaters, returned home for the first time this [...]
Celebrity Recipes
MOREE on a Plate is just around the corner, and renowned food writer, Roberta Muir, has been announced as the celebrity presenter for this year’s food and wine festival at Moree racecourse. The world-famous cookbook author and gourmet tour leader will over the weeks leading up to Moree on a Plate share recipes with Moree [...]
Renewables
ELEVEN community renewables projects have been recognised in the inaugural Climate Council Choice Awards, including New England Solar Farm, at Uralla near Armidale. The New England Solar Farm was named by the Climate Council as demonstrating how renewables can happily coexist with farming. As one of Australia’s newest and largest solar farms, New England Solar [...]
