Regional coverage
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 [...]
Bush Racing
A sensational reward for Todd Payne missed by inches when stable star Lisztomania was narrowly beaten in the $1 million Evergreen Turf Country Championship Final at Randwick last Saturday. But the popular Inverell trainer is on target for a well-deserved consolation prize when Sensational Reward tackles the 1400m Mick Farrell Memorial Anipro Warialda Cup today. [...]
Regional Development
NARRABRI’S housing and jobs future has been mapped out with a 20-year plan set to guide future housing, job creation and a revitalisation of the historic town centre. The Narrabri rezoning proposal, developed by the state government in close collaboration with Narrabri Shire Council, will deliver at least 2100 new, well-located, flood-free homes with a [...]
Junior Rugby
MORE than 60 junior rugby union teams from across Australia will compete in The Armidale School rugby carnival this weekend, including an under-12s team from Moree Junior Rugby Union Club. The two-day TAS carnival, the largest of its type in Australia, will be played across eight fields at The Armidale School, but it is the [...]
Agriculture
THE National Farmers’ Federation has this week joined a united front of organisations seeking a stronger commitment to the nation’s businesses in the next term of parliament. Twenty business groups, led by the Business Council of Australia, asked parliamentarians for a new agenda that backs all businesses. NFF CEO Troy Williams said agriculture stands ready [...]
Our Community
MOREE’S well-known hospitality and penchant for welcoming strangers shone through during the week when a group of more than 20 Lions Club members from across the eastern seaboard stopped over for a couple of nights en route to Traralgon in Victoria. The group, travelling in campervans and caravans, will join more than 1000 Lions at [...]
Regional News
REGISTRATIONS are now open for the annual Rural Women’s Gathering on Saturday, 25 October 2025 in Lismore. Organised by Lismore Council with support from the Rural Women’s Network, the theme for this year’s program is Connect to the Heart and encourages women from across regional, rural and remote New South Wales to get together, connect [...]
