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Regional News
AUSTRALIA’S first declared Renewable Energy Zone will formally commence construction within months after the NSW Government awarded ACEREZ the contract and reached financial close to deliver the Central-West Orana REZ transmission project. But Dugald Saunders, Leader of the NSW Nationals and Shadow Minister for Regional NSW, Agriculture, and Trade and Natural Resources, on Friday questioned [...]
Vital Services
A new mental health and wellbeing strategy for first responders which now recognises forestry workers, national park employees, and road and transport workers who put their lives on the line keeping communities safe was launched on Friday. The strategy is in addition to emergency services personnel including Ambulance NSW, Fire and Rescue NSW, NSW Police, [...]
Regional Tourism
MORE than 25 events are being held as part of Taste Tamworth Festival – the Tamworth Region’s annual 10-day festival from April 4-13. With a key focus on highlighting local produce and stallholders, festival-goers can expect to enjoy a range of diverse events that celebrate farm to plate and local culture, as well as try [...]
Summer Wrap
THIS week marks the official end of the 2024-25 fire season for most of New South Wales, with Rural Fire Service commissioner, Rob Rogers, saying this season crews worked on more than 4100 bush and grass fires, which burnt through more than 61,000 hectares. “January was our busiest month, but thanks to rainfall in the [...]
May 3 Election
NATHAN Fell has been endorsed as the Australian Labor Party candidate for Parkes in the upcoming federal election. As a Broken Hill local who has spent his professional career working in the mining sector, Mr Fell says he understands the unique challenges facing communities across rural and regional New South Wales. He has lived in [...]
Regional News
THE Australian and NSW Governments are activating specific disaster assistance measures for the Narrabri Local Government Area following widespread severe weather including strong winds and heavy rainfall. Some support has been made available under the joint Commonwealth-state Disaster Recovery Funding Arrangements Federal Minister for Emergency Management, Jenny McAllister, said the funding activated today will support [...]
Agriculture
THE National Farmers’ Federation has expressed profound disappointment in the United States’ decision to impose a 10 per cent tariff on all Australian exports. The United States and Australia have a deep and multi-faceted agricultural relationship underpinned by the Australia-United States Free Trade Agreement, which sees zero tariffs applied to two-way trade between the nations, [...]
May 3 Election
AUSTRALIANS will go to the polls on Saturday, May 3, with the Parkes electorate fielding five candidates vying to fill a very big pair of shoes left by retiring Nationals’ MP Mark Coulton. The Nationals candidate Jamie Chaffey, Labor Party’s Nathan Fell, Libertarian Sally Edwards, Family First’s Maurice Davey and Trish Frail from The Greens [...]
Weather Update
THE NSW State Emergency Service has deployed more than 750 personnel, rescue assets, high clearance vehicles and flood rescue teams as impacts from heavy rain and water flowing south from Queensland are felt across the state. Heavy rain has impacted the far north-west of the zone with multiple road closures around Moree, Garah and Mungindi. [...]
Weather Update
THE NSW State Emergency Service is monitoring rainfalls across northern New South Wales, and responding to major flood warnings in western communities as floodwater and rain from Queensland moves south. High clearance Vehicles have been repositioned in Moree Lismore, Grafton and Bourke, and air assets have been deployed to Bourke, Lightning Ridge, Moree, Narrabri, Grafton [...]
