The newest stories across general, sport, community, and business coverage.
Regional Tourism
MEMBER for Northern Tablelands Brendan Moylan has applauded Armidale Regional Council’s inaugural Creative Streets Festival after the opening night transformed the centre of town to a vibrant hub. The festival was brought to life with $345,000 secured from the NSW Government’s Open Streets Program. The community got behind the event with at least 5000 people [...]
Youth Crime Crisis
The NSW Opposition is calling on the Minns Labor Government to take immediate action to stop violent repeat youth offenders from terrorising rural communities after yet another widespread escalation. In the past couple of weeks, a motel owner was stabbed in Moree, a mother had her car stolen after being threatened with a machete at [...]
Drug Bust
DRUGS, cash and illegal items were seized, and three people charged with a total of 259 offences following two search warrants in Moree on Tuesday under Strike Force Bull Shark 2. Following extensive inquiries, at about 6am yesterday, investigators executed a search warrant at a home on Oak Street, Moree. During a search of the [...]
Fit For Life
THE Fit for Life program at Moree PCYC is back for Term 4, with before-school sessions scheduled Tuesdays and Thursdays. Fit for Life, co-ordinated by Moree PCYC staff in partnership with Moree Secondary College Clontarf Academy and NSW Police youth engagement officers, is designed for 10- to 16-year-olds. The program promotes physical fitness, wellbeing and [...]
Rural Health
MEMBER for Northern Tablelands Brendan Moylan has blasted the NSW Labor Government and NSW Health for ripping away financial incentives from some of the region’s most essential frontline health workers. Numerous nurses across the Northern Tablelands, including those in critical hospital roles have been told they will lose their existing Rural Health Workforce Incentive payments [...]
Health and Wellbeing
AROUND Broken Hill, Brendan Cullen is known as the manager of Kars Station, where he runs anywhere between 7000 and 9000 ewes across 60,000 hectares of rangeland country. Further afield, he’s the man who swam the English Channel – twice. Swimming, whether it’s the ocean water between England and France or in the nearby Menindee [...]
Regional History
THOUSANDS of films, sound recordings and oral histories have found a permanent home at 218 Peel Street, with the official opening of the Tamworth Regional Film and Sound Archive. The Archive, operated by dedicated and passionate volunteers, celebrates the relocation to larger, purpose-suited premises that will not only allow more room for archival equipment but [...]
Youth Crime Crisis
A teenage boy on bail for a Moree motel break-and-enter last month where the owner was stabbed, has been charged with robbery, assault and breach of bail offences following a string of alleged incidents across Sydney this month. At about 8.50pm last Tuesday, October 14, police were called to a hotel on Devonshire Street, Surry [...]
Our Community
THEY came from everywhere. The Pally Bush Mega Markets at the Pallamallawa Arts and War Memorial Hall on Sunday drew locals, visitors and stall-holders from across New South and Queensland, and left everyone wondering, just how much bigger can this monster get. Thousands of people converged on the village 30 kilometres east of Moree. They [...]
Police Appeal
POLICE are reappealing for assistance from the public as inquires continue into the discovery of a body in a burnt-out vehicle near Brewarrina last month. Emergency services were called to the Kamilaroi Highway, Brewarrina, 100km east of Bourke, at about 5.15am on Sunday, September 28, when an SUV was found alight. A body was found [...]
